In 2022, the volume of traffic between China and Europe reached a new milestone, despite the fact that it was probably one of the most volatile years in Eurasian transport. According to the data released by the Working Conference of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. in early January, China-Europe trains made 16,000 trips in 2022 and delivered 1.6 million TEU.
The exotic banana has "taken root" in Turkmenistan and is now grown here by more than one farm. The company "Hemsaýa" has broken up a banana plantation in the Akhal region – a tropical fruit grows in a greenhouse that covers an area of 5 hectares, the publication "Rysgal" reports.
On January 10, from early morning, housing and communal services employees carried out snow clearing work on the streets and highways of Turkmenistan.
The Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Alma-Ata warned fellow citizens against traveling to Kazakhstan by car in the next three days due to severe frosts. This was reported by the Dunya news agency of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry.
This was announced by the Minister of External Relations of the Astrakhan region Vladimir Golovkov during a working meeting with the Turkmen Consul in Astrakhan Nury Golliev.
The first ever satellite mission launched from the UK ended in failure. A giant jet plane of the American company Virgin Orbit delivered a rocket from Newquay, Cornwall, to launch it high above the Atlantic Ocean, writes BBC News.
The "Turkmen Shokhle" economy society plans to start production of children's bicycles in the near future, the website of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan reports.
Saudi Arabia is cancelling coronavirus restrictions on performing Hajj this year. This was stated by the Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq al-Rabia at the opening of the Hajj Expo 2023 conference, adding that the number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic.
On the night of January 9-10, a huge meteor flew in the sky over London and other parts of the UK, leaving a trail of fire behind it. The reaction of eyewitnesses ranged from surprise to panic, Yorkshire Live reports.
The ozone layer of the planet Earth is being restored according to the scheduled plan — this is the conclusion reached by the UN-supported group of experts on the scientific assessment of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Depleting Substances of the Global Agreement on the Protection of the Earth's Ozone Layer, unep.org reports.
The final document of the International Conference "Dialogue is a guarantee of peace", held in Ashgabat on December 11, was published as an official document of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, the official website of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry reports.
The time has come to develop a strategy for international cooperation of the Turkmen youth. This was called for by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, speaking at the Institute of International Relations of the country's Foreign Ministry.
Chairman of the Mejlis – Chamber of Deputies of the Turkmen Parliament Gulshat Mammedova met with the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Shentop on the sidelines of the 13th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly held in Antalya.
In the FIDE chess federation ranking published in early January 2023, Turkmenistan is again ranked 67th, which means that the rating level of the country's top 10 chess players has returned to the pre-pandemic level.
The Japanese company Roland, in honor of its own 50th anniversary, presented the concept of an electronic piano, which received the obvious name 50th Anniversary Concept Piano. The instrument is distinguished by many bold solutions: non-standard design, omnidirectional built-in acoustics, additional speakers installed on drones and the ability to broadcast a concert to the whole world.
