An agreement with Antonov could revive TMZ's past as one of the biggest aircraft assembly plants in Central Asia.

900 state assets will be sold in 2021 and abolish the practice of selling state property at a starting price of 1 Uzbek soum ($1=10,587 soums).

Faced with spiking traffic fatalities and accidents,  the government is determined to rein in wild driving and the resulting carnage.

NMMC, Uzbekistan's main gold producer, accounting for 70 percent of the country's total gold production, said its net profit rose to $716.6 million in 2020.