A satellite in orbit offers a nation prestige, essential data in handling natural disasters and, controversially, a blanket “kill switch” for the internet during unrest.
Solution favoured by Astana will help balance relations with Moscow and Beijing.
Israeli diplomatic missions globally have suspended operations amid the ongoing Israeli military operation against Iran which has killed nearly 80 people.
“Uzbekistan has attracted $39bn of FDI in the last eight years, up 10-fold,” Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told delegates to the fourth Tashkent International Investment Forum (TIIF) on June 10.
Organised retail is growing fast in Uzbekistan, catering to the demands of a growing middle class for convenience and upmarket goods, but it remains in the early stages of development.
Dry and warm conditions expected to heighten irrigation needs.
Experts from near and far met in Dushanbe to discuss danger posed by melting of giant ice sheets. But was “blue-washing” obscuring threat of titanic hydro project?
Rights campaigners, meanwhile, hit out at digital controls on migrants in country that they say will be used to corner people into joining armed forces.
Coach, mobbed by players at post-match press conference, takes congratulatory call from president. It’s time to forget nightmare of 2006.
Hydropower is part of the equation.
The monthly rate, however, rose sharply to 1.5%.
A lot may have changed, but the Taliban can’t escape recent history.
Melting of glaciers in Tajikistan’s mountains a grave threat to region’s water security.
Figure of 1.4mn a boost to country's plans to develop human capital to support economic diversification and growth.
China has stranglehold on rare earths needed for emerging technologies.