The prospects to resume buying cotton from Uzbekistan have improved for Bangladesh after the United States lifted the ban on sourcing the key textile raw material from the country following significant progress in ending forced labour. Until 2007, when a boycott campaign was launched against Uzbek cotton, the central Asian country was the single largest…

Nothing says “transformation” like mobile phone ownership and in the last five years, Uzbekistan has seen an explosion of smartphone sales and telecoms services as the state-owned national champion Uztelecom has invested heavily into its infrastructure and vastly expanded its services to become the biggest player in Central Asia. The reform of the Central Asian telecoms system…

During the IV meeting of the Kazakh-Uzbek Business Council, held as part of the state visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the city of Nur-Sultan, the Cinematography Agency of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of cinematography.…

Uzbekistan imported more than 303,300 mobile phones worth US$20.9 million in October 2021, the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said in a statement. Compared to September 2021, the volume of imports of mobile phones increased by 5,460 units. In January-October, Uzbekistan imported 2.2 million mobile phones for US$154.2 million. Growth compared to the same period…

For the first time in the country’s history Uzbekistan to host a General Assembly of the World Tourism Organisation The 25th session of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will be held in 2023 in Samarkand. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Minister of Tourism and…