President Mirziyoyev yesterday signed the amendments to the Administrative Liability Code (ALC), aimed at strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights. The Legislative Chamber passed the amendments on February 6, the Senate approved them on February 28.

An annual Career Day was held at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), which has been held for the past 10 years.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterrday hosted a UAE delegation led by the Minister of Energy and Industry, Suhail bin Muhammad al-Mazroui, the presidential press service said.

50 small cinemas, with total of 5550 seats capacity, will be built in Uzbekistan by the end of the year, 24 – in Q3 and 26 – in Q4.

Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the visiting special envoy of Iran's Supreme Leader, Head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharazi, the Ministry said.

The United States Commission On International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published 2019 Annual Report, which includes country reports.

The Uzbekistan government delegation will attend the Caspian Economic Forum in the Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi on August 12, UzA said.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Uzbekistan on a working visit on May 2. He will be hosted by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today familiarized himself with the modernization progress of the Tupolon hydroelectric plant in Saryasi district of Surkhandarya province, the presidential press service said.

Nasrullo Sayid (Sayidov), who flew to Tashkent from Edmonton, Canada via Istanbul, was stopped at Islam Karimov International Airport on April 20 and was not allowed to enter Uzbekistan and was deported to Istanbul in the evening of April 21.

Nearly 1 thousand Asian bustards, or beauty bustards have been set free in Muynak and Kungrad districts of Karakalpakstan. This unique and rare bird is listed in both Uzbekistan’s and the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red Lists of Threatened Species.

Joint Uzbek-Belarusian Interdisciplinary Institute of Applied Technical Qualifications is scheduled to open in Tashkent this year, the draft presidential decree said.

The Uzbek Customs Committee prepared a draft Presidential decree proposing to amend the earlier President’s Measures to Further Improve Foreign Economic Activity and Customs and Tariffs Regulation system of the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree.

The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Economic Relations, Foreign Investments and Tourism Uzbekistan Senators Alisher Kurmanov hosted with Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Belarus Viktor Chaichits, the Senate said.

Carlise Womack-Wynne, the professor in the College of Education at the University of North Georgia, has become a consultant to the Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan (MPE), the Ministry said in a statement.

Tashkent province bound Mercedes-Benz coach from Bukhara, toppled and took fire after tyre burst today at 2:00 AM in the Urtachirchik district of the Tashkent province, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The Harlem Globetrotters will once again continue their tradition of bringing goodwill to people all over the world as part of the U.S. State Department’s Sports Envoy program when they visit the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan between April 29 and May 6, where they will conduct youth basketball clinics as well as present their anti-bullying program, “T.E.A.M. Up at School.”

Two-way trade between Uzbekistan and Russia over the past two years increased by 20% - this is one of the highest rates among the CIS countries, the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin announced at the XX meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation Wednesday.

The main events of the visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to China commenced today on the morning of April 25 with a meeting with President of the PRC Xi Jinping.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday arrived in Beijing to attend the 2nd Belt And Road. The 40 heads of state, government and international and regional organizations have confirmed their participation.