Samarkand, Uzbekistan News

Single communication operator Beeline started next phase of the Third Generation programme.

The kitchen at Karavan brings local dishes from Tashkent and Samarkand to Delhi.

Samarkand Lift Construction Plant Open Joint Stock Company, only lift construction plant in Central Asia, started to export products to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, representatives of Peresvet Invest in Uzbekistan Andrei Klimenko told journalists.

Uzbeks call him "Big Papa" or, less flatteringly, "Yurtbashi" -- the head of the yurt-dwellers. Nicknames aside, Islam Karimov is possibly the most feared man in Central Asia.

UNDP in collaboration with the Committee of Senate of Oliy Majlis on international issues and the Academy of State and Social Construction, organized a two-day seminar in Navoi city targeting Navoi, Bukhara and Samarkand regions of Uzbekistan, to discuss the role and place of Local Kengashes in the implementation of widespread programme of reforms ...

All aboard the Trans-Asian Railway By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK - A train journey from Singapore to Shanghai may not be the stuff of dreams anymore.

Human rights activists from Uzbekistan are calling for the international boycott of cotton to be stepped up.

OPINION/ANALYSIS: Regardless of whether Afghan President Hamid Karzai is re-elected in August, of whether the Taliban can adapt to the new counterinsurgency strategy of Central Command leader Gen.

The Brian Horton Quartet will play a series of jazz concerts and conduct master music classes during their tour of Tashkent, Samarkand and Guliston in June.

Loic Fauchon visited Uzbekistan. The World Water Council is one of the most authoritative international organizations engaged in the global water problems.

An international scientific conference "Mirzo Ulugbek and his contribution to development of world science" opened in Samarkand city on 9 June.

The World Bank's Public Information Centre hosted a two day workshop for the librarians of the universities of Navoi, Samarkand and Bukhara regions.

The Bug Pit is still an option in Bukhara. A 6m-deep, vermin-infested hole, this infamous prison welcomed two British visitors in the 19th century, before they came to a grisly end at the hands of the ruthless emir.

Uzavtoprom joint stock company will set up production of auto components worth US$18.8 million in Andijan within 2009-2012. Creditors meeting of Bobur open joint-stock company adopted decision to realize part of its property to Uzavtoprom for 5.6 billion soums.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Indonesia to Uzbekistan Shahril Sabaruddin held a presentation "Indonesia: past and modern" at the Samarkand Economy Institute and Service.

A series of trainings on "Contemporary issues of improving social activism and legal culture of women" for women's wings of Uzbekistan's political parties is held in Samarkand.

"O you who believe! Betray not Allah and His Messenger, nor betray knowingly your Amanat". President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov and President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak visited the city of Samarkand on 12 May.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov discussed ways to enhance bilateral energy ties and economic cooperation during their talks in Tashkent on Monday.

Fabric artist and painter Sue Ehrlich calls her figurative pieced-and-sewn works simply "fabric collages." The term hardly does them justice.

Tamerlane, ruler of an empire stretching from India to Asia Minor, was as fond of building and boasting as an Egyptian pharaoh.