Louis Vuitton and Dior owner Bernard Arnault has been named the richest man in the world by Forbes. The businessman topped the magazine's annual rankings, displacing Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk to second place. For the first time, a French citizen leads the ranking.
Turkmen students won 45 medals at the II Open International Student Internet Olympiad in Theoretical Mechanics organized by the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan.
The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Turkmenistan has opened a polling station in Ashgabat for voting in a referendum on the draft Constitutional Law of Uzbekistan "On the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan", which will be held on April 30. The announcement was published on April 4 by the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.
The Consulate General of Turkmenistan in Kazan has launched a new section Ene dilim on its Instagram account, in which it plans to analyze various words of the Turkmen language. A separate emphasis in the section will be placed on the study of grammar and the eradication of parasite words from everyday speech.
Turkmenistan has risen to the 13th place in the ranking of the most influential countries in Asia, and also made a leap in the overall ranking by 25 positions, taking 88th place in the world, TurkicWorld reports.
The Turkmen National Institute of World Languages named after D.Azadi held the first Olympiad in English among schoolchildren of grades 9-11, in which 2,282 students took part.
Rector of the Aba Annayev International Academy of Horse Breeding Pygy Bayramdurdiyev said that foreign horse breeders are showing great interest in establishing cooperation with the university, as well as the Scientific and Production Center of Horse Breeding and the Gerogly State Equestrian Circus.
ORIENT presents an announcement of cultural events that will be held in Ashgabat this week, from April 3 to 9.
The Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charitable Foundation for Assistance to Children in Need of Guardianship will expand its activities. This applies both to entering the international level of the fund's activities and creating production facilities for the manufacture of medicines and food products for children.
The results of the francophonie competition were summed up at the Magtymguly Turkmen State University, which was held in three categories: song performance, composition and a French spelling test.
Ashgabat has broken the record for the warmest March in the history of weather observations since 1891, the Meteojournal reports.
The lead vessel in the series of dry-cargo container ships for the Caspian is planned to be laid down in May at the Russian shipyard in the Astrakhan region. Metal cutting for its embedded section was started at the Lotos production site of the Southern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center, TASS reports citing the press service of the YuTSSS.
“We are happy to accept into our national family everyone who shares our spiritual and moral principles, who, like us, is worried about the future, who wants to raise their children on traditional values,” President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday in his message to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly.
The official Turkmen press published all the information about the results of the voting on the election of deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan of the seventh convocation.
Since April 1, a new bus route "Ashgabat — Hazar International Bus Station" has been launched in Turkmenistan, according to the website of the agency "Turkmenautoulaglary" of the Agency for Transport and Communications under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.
