The Asian Development Bank’s connectivity project in Inner Asia is moving forward, with delegates in Tashkent pushing ahead plans to create a regional energy market in the center of Eurasia with Central Asia playing a key role.
It is cotton-harvesting time and in fields in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan that means tens of thousands of people are out picking cotton -- whether they like it or not.
A court in Uzbekistan’s western region of Khorezm has handed a 27-month suspended prison sentence to poet and blogger Mahmud Rajab smuggling and organizing mass disorder.
A prominent Uzbek singer and composer has complained to the country's president that he is virtually banned from TV and performing concerts because of his long beard.
Uzbekistan has officially joined the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, also known as the Turkic Council.
As part of Uzbekistan's unofficial campaign against the Islamic hijab, teachers are waiting outside school gates to demand students remove their head scarves.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Uzbekistan to release a blogger critical of public authorities who was placed in a psychiatric center last month.
The United States has blacklisted 28 Chinese organizations for their alleged involvement in "human rights violations and abuses" against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China's far western region of Xinjiang.
Uzbek singers who profit from performing at extravagant weddings are unhappy with a recent ruling that limits the number of music groups that can perform at such affairs.
What people wear on their heads in Central Asia is a matter of concern for the governments there. Many women have found themselves in trouble for wearing a hijab, and many men for wearing a beard.
Two police officers in the town of Balashikha near Moscow have been dismissed and face unspecified charges for "torturing" and forcing two Uzbek men to jump from a second-floor apartment.
An Uzbek regional governor has been given three months' probation by the Senate after rudely lambasting Muslim women's head scarves and the long, bushy beards many men wear, saying they promote Islamic extremism.
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