China plans to raise tourism revenue to 7 trillion yuan (about $1 trillion) by 2020, the Chinese government has said.

A state council's Five-Year Tourism Plan (2016-20) mandates China to…

A project to draw up an archeological map of Pasargadae, an ancient city and world heritage site in Fars Province, has begun.

"This project is a follow-up on studies carried out in the past…

The historical Tughrul Tower and Ibn Babavey Cemetery in Rey, Tehran Province, which were at risk of construction activities at Tehran Subway's Line 6, are no longer in danger thanks to the…

Hotels in the Middle East reported mixed November 2016 results, while hotels in Africa posted positive results in the three key performance metrics, according to data from STR, a leading hotel…

This was a good year for Iran's nascent tourism sector. Old flight routes resumed operations while new ones were established, the UNESCO World Heritage List featured two more Iranian sites and…

Soroush, the locally-made call and messaging application owned by the state-run broadcasting company, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), released earlier this summer, does not seem…

As the battleground for work optimization continues with the introduction of several sites, bots and apps to help one work more efficiently, one Iranian startup group has entered the fray.

Mashhad’s Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR) is to host Iran’s Third International Stem Cell Conference, April 19-21, 2017.

Iranian researchers have built a microwave power device and amplifier for radars and communication systems. Ali Agha Rasouli, a student at Iran University of Science and Technology, told Mehr News…

Scientists at Stanford University and the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids - the smallest possible bits of diamond - to…

Celebrated Iranian singer, composer, guitarist and actor Reza Yazdani has released a single track with eco-lyrics.

‘I’m on Edge’ (Persian: ‘A’sab Nadaram’) is Yazdani’s latest composition,…

‘The Comedy of Olfaction,’ a play written by theater director, actor and playwright Omid Taheri and directed by theater actor and director Meysam Abdi, will go on stage once again, this time at…

Farshchian University on traditional arts and handicrafts, proposed several years ago by master of Persian painting and miniature Mahmoud Farshchian, 86, “will hopefully open in February 2017,”…

The first Iranian woman playwright will be honored at the closing ceremony of the 2nd Mahmoud Ostad Mohammad Award at City Theater in Tehran on January 7, 2017.

Farideh Farjam, 77, was the…

A movie from Iran won two top prizes at the 13th International Zagora Trans-Saharan Film Festival in Zagora, Morocco.

‘An Ordinary Rebellion’, the first feature film written and directed by…

The Georgian translation of ‘The Colonel’, a novel by the celebrated Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, was unveiled at the Tbilisi State University.

The ceremony was held in the presence…

A powerful typhoon has killed at least four people in the Philippines before passing over the capital Manila.

Typhoon Nock-Ten, known locally as Nina, made landfall on the eastern island…

Residents of the Syrian city of Damascus faced their third consecutive day without water on Sunday after the city’s supply was poisoned.

Authorities cut off the capital city’s pipeline…

Turkish authorities have arrested the cafeteria manager of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper for insulting the president after he said he would not serve tea to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the…

Iran Center for E-Commerce Development, e-commerce industry’s top body, is set to regulate the operation of unofficial payment tools, referred to as aggregators, after profiling owners and their…

The brouhaha surrounding the condition of Iranian banks is valid, as the crisis has been brewing for a long time. Oddly, what has now unfolded due to years of regulatory neglect and mismanagement…

Bank Mellat, a leading Iranian privatized bank, has fully established corresponding relations with more than 100 lenders worldwide, said an official of the bank.

A total of 11,800 housing units were sold in Tehran during the month ending Dec. 20, marking a 5.9% drop in the number of home deals compared with the same period of last year. Home deals also…

Iran's economic growth during the first half of the current fiscal year (started March 20), excluding the oil sector, stood at 4.5%, the government spokesman and president of Planning and Budget…

Iran’s non-oil foreign trade during the nine months of the current Iranian year (started March 20) stood at $63.12 billion.

According to the latest report released by the Islamic Republic…