Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on performing repeated umrah during the holy month of Ramadan. This follows from the new instructions issued by the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of the country for those wishing to make a small pilgrimage in the holy month of Ramadan.

Recently, in App Store and Google Play, an updated version of the ORIENT app has become available for download. A lot has changed in the application and on the site, and we decided to remind you once again what innovations are now available to users.

Interest in parrots has sharply increased in Turkey after the devastating earthquakes in the southeast of the country, sales of birds have increased against the background of information that they feel tremors in advance, writes the newspaper Yeni Akit.

Foreign tourists who have violated the rule of law in Phuket will now receive yellow and red cards. At the same time, the yellow one allows the guest to continue his vacation in the city, but next time he will not be allowed to Thailand. However, those who committed an illegal act for the second time will become holders of a red card and will be immediately expelled from the country, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Thai newspaper The Phuket News.

China Southern Airlines resumes regular flights on the Urumqi-Ashgabat-Urumqi route from April 26. As the airline's office informed Orient, the flight between the Chinese city and the Turkmen capital will be operated once a week for the time being. In the future, the number of flights on this route may increase, the office of the Chinese air carrier noted.

The surnames and names of the new leaders in key positions of the Arkadag city management system were announced during a joint meeting of the Turkmen government with the heads of legislative and representative bodies of the country.

Turkmen students who study at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia took part in festive events dedicated to Novruz Bayram.

Applications for the 31st Lorenzo Natali Media Award have started, according to the page of the EU Delegation to Turkmenistan on Instagram.

Turkmen weightlifter Perhat Bagtyyarov won a silver medal on the second day of the 2023 Youth World Weightlifting Championship in Durres (Albania).

Not all wishes come true quickly, sometimes it takes time for them to come true. Just recently, in March, Hero of Turkmenistan and Russia, commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps, Oleg Kononenko, fulfilled the wish of Artem Saykovsky, a schoolboy from the city of Korolev. The well-known charitable event "Christmas Tree of Desires" helped in this.