At least nine people were killed and more than 800 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of more tremors in the…
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Cooperation between Uzbekistan and Oman has reached a new level thanks to the export of traditional Kokand halva. Under the auspices of the Uzbek embassy, online negotiations took place between Abdulatif Kholmatov, director of the Kokand halva factory “Avvali”, and Yasser al-Nabhani, head of the Omani company East Coast Jewels LLC. As part of the…
The Chinese CITIC Construction could be engaged of the Tashkent-Chinaz highway reconstruction project. This became known during a meeting between the Minister of Transport Ilkhom Makhkamov and the management of the company. The parties discussed highway construction and reconstruction projects in Uzbekistan. CITIC Construction expressed its intended to bid for Pungan-Namanga and Tashkent-Chinaz highways reconstruction…
Gas production in Uzbekistan in February 2024 dropped to 3.71 billion cubic meters (BCM), the Statistics Agency said in an industrial output report. This is the minimum since September last year (3.77 billion). Compared to February 2023 – production fell by 3.5%, or by 137.5 million cubic meters, and to January of this year –…
Singapore and Zurich tied for the world’s most expensive city this year, followed by Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday as it cautioned that the global cost-of-living crisis was not yet over, reports Reuters. On average, prices have risen by 7.4 per cent year on year in…