China is embracing Southeast Asia with a renewed trade and investment push, a trend that’s set to accelerate as the region grapples with the prospect of a more protectionist US under Donald …

The 100-bolivar bank note will be removed from circulation in Venezuela on Wednesday. The Venezuelan government promised six much larger notes in coming days.

Stuck in an economic crisis…

Ahmed, a Qatari civil servant, used to arrive at his office at a government ministry in Doha late in the morning and leave for home after lunch, collecting a monthly salary of 40,000 riyals ($11,…

Turkey’s economy unexpectedly contracted in the third quarter, led by a slump in consumption, in the most significant sign yet that July’s failed coup and the political instability it provoked are…

The dollar rose to its highest since February against the yen on Monday as US bond yields climbed on the back of expectations of broadly higher inflation, driven by a 5% rise in global oil prices…

The UK economy will grow at 1.1% in 2017, according to the latest forecast published by the British Chambers of Commerce on Monday. While this forecast is marginally higher than the 1% growth it…

The current account deficit widened in the third quarter of the year as exports of South Africa’s mining and factory products fell due to weaker international demand and a stronger rand.

Norwegian exporters are gambling that the krone will remain weak. According to Nordea Bank AB, exporters in the Nordic nation are hedging their foreign currency risk to a much smaller degree now…

Flag carrier Iran Air is at the “very final stage” of formalizing a deal with Europe’s Airbus, having signed a $16.6 billion deal with Boeing earlier on Sunday, an unidentified Iran Air official…

More than $5.86 billion worth of non-oil goods were exported from Tehran Province during the eight months to November 20, registering a 5.5% increase compared with the corresponding period of…

President Hassan Rouhani said significant steps have been taken to ensure food security and self-sufficiency in the agriculture sector, which guarantee national security.

The president made…

Afghan and Iranian businessmen signed deals worth $2 million during the Second Afghanistan-Iran Economic Exhibition held in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, last week. Over 10,000 people visited the…

South Korea has been, in recent years, one of Iran's main trade partners.

Yet, up until last year, the East Asian country had the upper-hand in bilateral trade balance with the Islamic…

Canadian food writer Naomi Duguid explores the culinary region of Persia in her new cookbook ‘Taste of Persia’, released in September, escorting readers through villages, markets and into people’s…

Iranian theater director will stage the play ‘Iceland’ written by the Canadian writer Nicolas Billon next week at Tehran’s Baran Theater.

The play has been translated by Zahra Javaheri and…

Kavian music ensemble will perform a 3-piece concert titled ‘Arash the Archer’ on December 15 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

Digital Games Research Center (DIREC), affiliated to Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation, has recently released a fact sheet on the industry and market of digital games in Iran.

The House Museum of Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928-2005), the famous self-taught painter, which was damaged after a storm in September, is waiting for funds to be repaired. If that does not happen soon…

On December 11, the Education Ministry, UNESCO’s Tehran Cluster Office, the UNICEF Country Office and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, jointly organized a high-level National…

President of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) Dr. Hugh R. Taylor is in Tehran to attend the 26th Annual Congress of the Iranian Society of Ophthalmology.

“It is the first…

Over the past 15 days, a total of 1.5 tons of illicit drugs were seized in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, said Border Police Commander General Saeed Komeili.

“During…

A hospital for respiratory care with 64 beds is under construction in Zabol, Sistan-Baluchistan Province and will become operational in the first half of the next fiscal year (starts March 21,…

The new Hossein Abad subway station located on Tehran Metro Line 3 (between Heravi and Nobonyad stations in district four of Tehran Municipality) was inaugurated on Monday. According to Tehran…

Some 24% of Iranian households have no working members, said the head of the Special Women and Youth Committee (affiliated to the Expediency Council).

Egg donation for assisted reproduction treatment, particularly in IVF (in vitro fertilization) technology, has become a big business in the country for brokers in the field.