Hong Kong shares extended gains to end firmer on Friday, scoring its best week in three months, as capital outflow worries eased after the US dollar took a breather from its pre Trump inauguration…

Weak demand both at home and abroad drove a bigger-than-expected fall in German industrial orders in November, marking a slight correction after a surge in the prior month, data showed on Friday,…

Seoul-based LG estimated on Friday it fell to its first quarterly operating loss in six years in October-December. The world’s second-biggest television maker behind Samsung said it likely swung…

China will intensify efforts in 2017 to crack down on foreign exchange irregularities, such as underground banking, the foreign exchange regulator said on Friday. It will also fend off cross-…

Samsung is forecasting profit for its current Q4 2016 quarter to jump by 50% year-on-year. Samsung is estimating an operating profit of 9.2 trillion Korean won ($7.75 billion) on sales of 53…

Iran Airports Company needs $250 million worth of “radar equipment and navigation systems”, the CEO of Iran Airports Company said.

“We’re planning to revamp all our airport equipment to…

Iran exports non-oil goods and services worth $200-300 million to Tajikistan every year, accounting for 80% of the Islamic Republic’s total exports to the member of the Commonwealth of Independent…

Iraq decided to close the Al-Shib border crossing with Iran for 10 days and form an investigation committee after disagreements erupted over the crossing’s revenues.

The decision was made…

Trade turnover between Iran and Turkey stood at $8.79 billion during the 11 months of 2016, according to the latest statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute. The figure indicates a…

The lion’s share of revenues earned from the removal of subsidies on fuel is spent on paying cash handouts to households, the government spokesman said.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), in the Netherlands, has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future program, where an Iranian movie is also included in the competition for…

‘Marx and Coca Cola,’ a play by Danish author Nils Schou, 74, will be staged at Tehran’s Paliz Theater by Iranian playwright and theater director Kianoush Akhbari.

The play is slated for…

Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) conducted by the renowned Italian musician Paolo Olmi will perform on January 19 during the Fajr International Music Festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

A number of Iranian publishers were prosecuted for unauthorized insertions in textbooks, according to Seyed Hussein Talaee Zavareh, the deputy head of the Organization for Educational Research and…

‘My Brilliant Friend’ (in Italian ‘L’amica Geniale’), a fiction by one of Italy’s best-known contemporary writers is now available in Persian.

The original book in Italian is translated by…

A traditional medicine course with two credits has been added to all fields of contemporary medicine and pharmacy at universities of medical sciences across the country, said director of the…

The number of hospital beds across the country have more than tripled since the beginning of the government’s tenure in 2013, said Health Ministry spokesperson Iraj Harirchi. “Nearly 1,700 beds…

In the past nine months the target population under coverage of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee decreased by 7% as more people were empowered under a variety of programs, but those seeking…

The rate of fire incidents and burn injuries is eight times higher in Iran than the global average, said Dr Mohammad Javad Fatemi, head of the Iranian Burn Patients Support Association. He said…

Experts, people and officials have repeatedly blamed Tehran’s suffocating traffic as well as the worsening air pollution partly on the city’s inadequate, old and inefficient public transportation…

Iran’s rural and nomadic people are showcasing their immense potential at the Second Exhibition of Rural and Nomadic Capacities at Tehran’s Permanent Fairground in northern part of the capital.…

An earthquake measuring 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Khonj city, Fars Province, early Friday. According to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 3:06 am…

The Inbound Tourism Safety and Security Commission of the National Security Council is reviewing a complaint filed by Tehran's tourism authorities on the illegal accommodation of Chinese tourists…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency will hold a month-long training workshop in the Iranian capital Tehran to teach local experts the inner workings of ecotourism.

Speaking to Mehr…

The world's safest airlines have been named in two sets of annual rankings, with Qantas and Cathay Pacific taking the number one spots.

The rankings from AirlineRatings.com put Qantas at…