The International Financial Corporation, member of World Bank Group, announced the annual report “Doing business” with assessment of the business environment for private sector in 178 world countries.

On August 21 this year the delegation of the Sultanate of Oman led by the Minister of Higher Education Ravia bint Saud Al-Busaydia met with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Rustam Kasymov in Tashkent, the Uzbekistan National News Agency reported.

The exhibition of works by the Uzbek artists “Poetry of ornament” dedicated to the 17th anniversary of Independence of Uzbekistan opened at one of the prominent venues at the Chinese capital of Beijing - “Shash”, the Uzbek style artistic chaikhana (‘the tea house’).

Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan defended his title in the Men’s Freestyle Wrestling 120 kilogram weight class by defeating Russia’s Bakhtiyar Akhmedov in the final on Thursday, August 21.

In Men’s Freestyle Wrestling 74 kilogram final, Uzbekistan’s Soslan Tigiev competed with Buvaysa Saytiev of Russia and got silver medal of the Beijing Olympic Games on Wednesday, August 20.

Minister of energy and water resources of Afghanistan Muhammad Ismailkhan held talks with the chairman of the Uzbekenergo company Botir Teshaboyev in Tashkent on 20 August.

On August 19 the Uzbek gymnast Anton Fokin secured bronze medal on exercises on parallel bars at the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing, according to the national newspapers.

Late last week the news conference dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia marked on August 17 was held at the Le Grand Plaza Hotel in Tashkent.

At the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing Ekaterina Khilko of Uzbekistan collected 36.90 points on trampoline gymnastics and secured a bronze medal stepping third onto pedestal, according to the agencies.