Iran’s Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi has underscored the country’s huge progress in producing drugs and medical equipment, and its preparedness to export medicine to the Middle…

Armenia’s export of lamb to Iran increased significantly over the past two months, the press service of Armenian Ministry of Agriculture said. As of December 2, 2016, lamb export to Iran amounted…

Servcorp, an Australia-based multinational organization that sells serviced office space, virtual office products and IT services, officially inaugurated its first branch in the Iranian capital…

Iran’s state-owned shipping company IRISL is in advanced talks with South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. for a $650 million order of container ships and tankers, people involved in…

In November, American officials cleared the sale of 106 Airbus jets to Iran, the latest such license allowing business with the Islamic Republic following last year’s nuclear deal. 

Around 28 million tons of non-oil goods worth $8 billion were exported from Hormozgan during the eight months to November 20, says Alireza Dashtani, an official with the southern Iranian province’…

The buffer zones of Naqsh-e-Jahan Square, Qehi Village and Monar Jonban monuments plus their surrounding landmarks have been demarcated in Isfahan Province. 

Just a few weeks ahead of launching the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, which will be celebrated throughout 2017, the UN World Tourism Organization underlined in Cancun…

Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization is placing greater focus on the standardization of lodging facilities to ensure a comfortable stay for the disabled and has initiated…

British tourism company Thomas Cook said it would pay £55.8 million ($71 million) to take full control of a jointly owned network of 764 travel shops in Britain, which it had run with partner The…

The government has earmarked a 12% increase in the tourism authority’s funding in its proposed budget bill for the next fiscal year that starts on March 21, 2017.

President Hassan Rouhani’s…

An innovative, Android-based smartphone application, designed by a private firm, aims to connect artisans with buyers, allowing shoppers to purchase high quality handicrafts…

TourMega, a travel startup based in Silicon Valley, has launched the first search engine dedicated to tours and activities around the world, including Iran.

The startup features more than…

Amazon.com on December 5 said that it will open a bricks-and-mortar grocery store called Amazon Go, an ambitious bid by the once-online-only retailer to gobble up more of Americans’ shopping…

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube are joining forces to quickly identify terrorist groups online, in a sign that the social media sites have been used by groups like Da’esh to plan…

A roadmap for the development of electronic services in rural and under-developed areas was unveiled at The Second National Conference of Universal Service Obligations on December 5.  

Russia’s deputy minister of communications and mass media, Rashid Ismailov, discussed in Tehran prospects to promote collaboration in science and technology. 

Ismailov exchanged views…

South Korea›s military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said.

A spokesman told the BBC that classified…

Music is playing in the streets again. Flags are flapping at full staff. After nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, Cuba is slowly returning to noisy, boisterous normality.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stepped down on Tuesday to focus on running for president in next year’s election and was replaced by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

Valls resigned…

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday she would accept the result of an impeachment vote against her this week but indicated she would not step down now as demanded by opposition…

Libyan pro-government forces say they have driven the self-styled Islamic State terrorists out of the last neighborhood of Sirte, declaring the battle for control of the city is over. 

Syrian government forces gained more ground in the battle for Aleppo on Monday, as Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that sought a seven-day truce in the city.

Three…

Donald Trump has nominated former opponent Ben Carson as his secretary of housing and urban development.

In a statement from his transition team on Monday, Trump said he was “thrilled to…

Uzbekistan’s acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has won a tightly controlled presidential election following the death of longtime ruler Islam Karimov.

Mirziyoyev, the Central Asian…