The Muruntau gold mine, located in the Qizilqum (aka Kyzyl-Kum) desert in Uzbekistan, is the world’s biggest open-cast gold mine. Discovered in 1958, surface mining started in 1967 and dug the giant kilometers-wide hole that the mine is today. Owned and operated by Uzbekistan’s state Navoi Mining & Metallurgy Kombinat (NMMC), it is also going…

To support the initiative of Uzbek President Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev’s to implement cotton textile clusters and develop agriculture, Posco International Textile has expressed its readiness to set up such a cluster. This was discussed during a recent meeting of the company management with the Uztekstilprom Association chairman Ilkhom Khaydarov. The company will start work on…

Uzbekistan has become the first country in the world to join the UK’s GSP Enhanced Framework. The Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan and the British Embassy in Tashkent held a press conference on November 22, during which it was announced that Uzbekistan had become the first beneficiary of the Enhanced Framework of the Generalized…

UzAuto Motors announced the forced stop of the conclusion of contracts for the supply of Chevrolet Captiva 5 cars. “In this regard, the management and staff of Uzauto Motors JSC bring its customers the deepest apologies for the inconveniences brought to our customers, and believes that the decision made, at the moment, is the only…

On 19 November, the President of Uzbekistan paid a visit to the Russian Federation, during which a significant package of documents on bilateral cooperation in various fields was signed. As part of the state visit, a media forum in the format of a video bridge was held, in which representatives of the mass media of…