Category: Asia

Mon 25 October 2021: Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has been re-elected, according to the country’s election commission. At a press conference, Zayniddin Nizamhocayev, chairman of the Central Election Commission, reported that Mirziyoyev, a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party, received 80.1 percent of the vote. According to Uzbek media, around 16.21 million citizens took part […]

Mon 25 October 2021: During his travel to Qatar on Oct. 25-26, China’s Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi will meet with a team of the interim Afghan Taliban government, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. According to foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, addressing during a regular press briefing in Beijing, the two sides […]

Sun 24 October 2021: The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has begun a hunger-relief scheme, delivering wheat to thousands of people in exchange for labor. At a press conference in southern Kabul on Sunday, the Taliban’s main spokesperson said the scheme would be expanded out across Afghanistan’s major towns and cities, employing 40,000 men in the […]

Sun 24 October 2021: On Sunday, Uzbekistan will elect its president for the next five years, with incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev widely anticipated to defeat four opponents and earn a second term. This is the first presidential election after the death in December 2016 of Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan’s first president, who controlled the Central Asian country […]