The Senate approved the Entrepreneurship Code; today in Uzbekistan there are about 5.000 documents regulating entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurs have difficulty finding the requirements applicable to their business

The Anti-Corruption Agency said it found cases of conflict of interest in three other ministries, Transport, Pre-School and School Education and Culture, and related organisations, whose 107 officials hold shares in 116 business entities

Increasingly influential first daughter is seen as successor to President Mirziyoev, who amended the Uzbek constitution last year to pave the way for him to potentially stay in power for another 14 years and looks keen of keeping power within his family

The 9th annual meeting of Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network with world leaders, policy-makers, economists and experts from 63 countries and over 20 international organisations started in Tashkent to deliberate on key issues in fight against poverty

New tourism categories have been announced by 2025 - geological tourism, industrial and scientific tourism and military tourism - in a draft resolution on strengthening the tourism sector by the Agency for Strategic Reform