Foreign investments into domestic hydrocarbon sector Asian Development Bank provided a loan of $100 million and a guarantee of political risk of $200 million for the development of natural gas field Kandym in the southwest of Uzbekistan.

Tashkent, Uzbekistan Complex on education, healthcare and social welfare, information systems and telecommunication of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan held a session to sum up results of the first quarter of 2012.

Ad hoc working group on improving the fundamental documents of the Organization for Cooperation of Railway Companies (OSJD) held 28th meeting in Tashkent.

An Uzbek-Dutch Business Forum was held in Tashkent on 5 April within the visit of the delegation of the Netherlands led by Ronald Keller, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with residence in Moscow.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus Erato Kozakou−Marcoullis has held negotiations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan on 5 April 2012.

The Resolution of the President of the country of March 26 \"On additional measures to strengthen the incentives for exporting enterprises and expanding exports of competitive products\", provided new opportunities for Uzbek producers.

Festival of artistic creativity, beauty and talent Masters of the stage used to turn the everyday life to festivity and share the drama art connoisseurs with new bright impressions have celebrated their professional day.

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics at Samarqand State University has been included in the list of Top 100 Engineers 2012.

National Security Council under President of the Republic of Uzbekistan convened for a regular session on April 3.

The Centre of National Arts in Tashkent has hosted for the tenth time one of the most favoured and popular with capital residents and guests the exhibition fair of decorative-applied art Bazar-Art.

Bolajonlar-Shirintoylar children’s fashion traditional festival has again presented the wider public with a collection of bright, fanciful, and crucially, distinctive outlets for children and teens, combining contemporary trends with national color.

Uzbekistan will be holding national exhibitions in foreign countries on an annual basis, and support Uzbek business participation in international fairs abroad.

The capital’s Turkiston Palace hosted the final phase of the competition of entrepreneurs, farmers and artisans for the prize of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Tashabbus 2012”.

More than 270 investment projects will be implemented in Uzbekistan during the next five years.

Samples of artistic creativity by a young photo journalist The Tashkent House of Photography is hosting a solo exhibition Drop in the Ocean of the young photo journalist Nazira Boymurodova.

In Berlin, the Association of German Water Partnership organized a roundtable dedicated to water issues in Central Asia. The event was timed to the conference \"Water Diplomacy in Central Asia\" held in Berlin.

The forum of business circles of Uzbekistan and China took place in Tashkent on 30 March.

A Russian expert Leonid Papyrin, who thoroughly studied materials of engineering and geological surveys to justify the construction of Rogun in 2005-2007, concluded that the construction would have to given up.