I VIVIDLY remember my maiden trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2004. Arriving as a Member of our Parliament’s Lower House and coming from the tropical heat of Malaysia, I was utterly shocked to find ...

A widely circulated photo of a young Ulugbek shaking hands with Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, offers a poignant illustration of his career’s promising start in this region of the world.

T HE JAILING of dissenters is nothing new in Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, where faulting the president ...

T HE JAILING of dissenters is nothing new in Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, where faulting the president can land you in trouble. What is unusual is the recent public outcry after ...

The death of Uzbekistan’s long-time President Islam Karimov in 2016 opened a door that had been closed. One of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s first acts as president following his ascension to the ...

It inaugurated the Congress of World Religions in 2003. At the same time, Uzbekistan was far more restrictive in this regard until the death of its first president, Islam Karimov, in 2016. Considering ...

It starts with a short introduction to Ameena and her family, which flows into Ameena telling her little brother Raheed about The 5 Pillars of Islam and why they are so important to Muslims ...

Central Asia is a strategically significant region abundant in resources and economic potential. It can and should emerge as a hub for positive and profitable U.S. engagement.Securing critical ...

Official salaries for world leaders range from the modest to the outstandingly generous. Meanwhile, many premiers past and present boasted outrageous wealth before they bagged the top job, while ...

Metro’s Alice Murphy spent seven days in Uzbekistan and discovered a fascinating country with something for every traveller I had many answers, most built on the country’s Silk Road history ...

1 killed, 2 injured in knife attack at Nagano Station; suspect at large SUMO/ Hoshoryu seizes 2nd career title, to be promoted to 74th yokozuna SUMO/ Happy Hoshoryu anxiously awaits for yokozuna ...