• Poland is willing to expand cooperation with Iranian companies in maritime transport and related industries.

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  • Esfahan Steel Company has signed a draft contract with Iraq’s General Company for Trading of Construction Materials, owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Trade for exporting iron products.

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  • Mobarakeh Steel Company signed its first foreign investment deal worth $7.53 million with Finland’s Ecofer.

    The deal, based on a build-operate-transfer contract, entails Ecofer providing…

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  • The Iranian printing industry is out of recession and is well on the verge of a development boom.

    The statement was made by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri…

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  • Alex Romero was delighted when President Barack Obama came to Havana in March bearing the promise of a bright new future. Like so many other Cubans, the 42-year-old state photography shop employee…

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  • The effect of South Korean government fiscal spending on boosting the economy is feared to lose further ground in 2017 than this year due to the nation’s greater economic opening and other factors…

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  • Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda defended his yield curve control policy on Monday, saying it had kept Japan’s long-term interest rates from joining the uptrend in global yields and was…

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  • Global merger and acquisition activity has soared to $3.1 trillion so far this year—its third highest since 2007—even as the deal value saw over 22% decline last year, says a report.

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  • Mongolia is in the depths of an unusually harsh winter that is decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius. But an economic winter has also hit people like factory…

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  • The subdued consumption in India is likely to get a boost next month with big banks including the State Bank of India expected to cut lending rates. Since November 8, when the government banned…

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  • Approximately 3,000 units of red blood cells are required every day in Tehran Province besides 1,300-1,400 units of platelets and 700 units of plasma, says Seyed Morteza Tabatabaee, director…

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  • Iran is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and at risk of a wide range of natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods and drought.

    It should be recalled that exactly…

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  • Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease remains a challenge for doctors, who rely on a combination of mental and physical examinations to detect the condition. In a new study, researchers describe how a…

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  • Iran’s Meteorological Organization says the capital’s air quality index (AQI) improved on Monday due to conditions associated with atmospheric instabilities, but the amelioration was only very…

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  • Minimally invasive procedures are the safest and fastest methods in obstetrics and gynecology today and have advanced radically over the past decade, said Abdolrasoul Akbarian, head of the 13th…

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  • Four people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall on Chalus Road on Sunday at around 3 pm. Several landslides had occurred on the road at various places the previous day, said…

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  • The Traffic and Transportation Organization of Tehran Municipality has proposed a bill to the Tehran City Council to increase tariffs on the one-year entry permit stickers that allow drivers to…

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  • A memorandum of understanding in academic cooperation was signed between University of Shiraz in Fars Province and Cyprus International University (CIU) located in the capital North Nicosia. The…

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  • A taxi-driver in Some’eh Sara, Gilan Province, who had tethered a dog to the back of his car and dragged it across the streets, was arrested and sentenced to two months in prison for animal abuse…

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  • China’s Parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the country’s…

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  • Natural resources are deemed national treasures only when they benefit the country, and allowing the Caspian Hyrcanian forests some respite is key to ensuring it remains beneficial to Iran,…

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  • London-based non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project released a report earlier this month—produced on behalf of 365 investors representing $22 trillion in funds—which analyzes data disclosures by 187…

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  • Semnan’s 15-year struggle with drought is only worsening, with the province’s three main plains in dire need of water.

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  • Iran will host a United Nations conference on dust and sand storms in the first half of the next Iranian year (starts March 21, 2017), according to an official at the Department of Environment.

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  • Rising foreign exchange rates over the past several weeks is pushing up the price of raw material for automakers according to the secretary of Iran’s Automakers Association. He has called on the…

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