The Republic of Indonesia celebrates its Independence Day, a national holiday, on August 17 (1945). On this special occasion a flag-raising ceremony was held at the Embassy of Indonesia in Tashkent.
The first international forum "Major Directions of Development of Turkmenistan's Energy Industry" wrapped up in Ashgabat. The exhibition and scientific conference was attended by leading Turkmen energy specialists.
A passenger jet, Boeing 737, with 90 people on board crashed near the Manas airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 68. The catastrophe occurred at about 8:40p.m. Sunday night near the Jany-Jer village in Sokuluk district of the Chui oblast.
Vietnam and Uzbekistan have agreed to promote bilateral co-operation on oil and gas exploration in order to sign a contract on oil and gas exploration in Uzbekistan and transfer coal-to-liquid technology.
The Third Ministerial Meeting of the members of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), chaired by Kazakhstan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marat Tazhin will be held in Almaty on August 25.
On August 24, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held talks with the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein, who arrived in the Turkmen capital on an official visit.
Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have a great potential to enhance cooperation in the fields of politics, economy, security and culture, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said in a recent interview with Chinese media.
International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi and Vienna-based Borealis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a major fertiliser complex in Uzbekistan, IPIC said in its press release.
