A delegation of private companies and investors from the British Chambers of Commerce explored opportunities for cooperation in Iran's South Pars megaproject in a meeting in Tehran last week.

Iran Power and Water Equipment and Services Export Company (SUNIR) has exported $82 million worth of engineering and technical services since March 2015, but is working for a significant increase…

Tanzania is required to boost its economy by more than 13% annually in order to attain a middle income status by 2025. For the past years, the country’s economy has been growing at 7% only.

European Union governments will probably refrain on Tuesday from giving their verdict on the EU’s draft trade agreement with Canada because more time is needed to overcome a political split in…

The Bank of Uganda lowered its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 13%, saying slowing inflation gave it room to support flagging growth. Two of three analysts surveyed by Bloomberg…

Removing the goods and services tax will paralyze Malaysia’s economy, says Prime Minister Najib Razak.

He said the GST was among the factors that helped spur the country’s growth despite a…

The walking dead are gnawing at Europe’s weak economy—zombie banks and zombie companies.

Almost a decade after the financial crisis ravaged the global economy, analysts and top officials…

Britain’s Fraser of Allander Institute has just published the first serious impact assessment of Brexit on the Scottish economy. It is a forecast based on a model, so the usual econometric health…

China’s two-week money-market rate climbed the most in almost two years as the central bank drained funds from the financial system and a weakening yuan reduced the possibility of monetary easing…

On Monday, the German Federal Statistical Office released its official report, stating that German women currently aged between 15 and 49 have given birth to an average of 1.5 live babies during…

The Representation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in the Islamic Republic of Iran observed the World Food Day 2016 at a commemorative ceremony at Vahdat (…

Earthquakes, floods and air pollution are not the only threats lurking in Tehran. Over the past few years, land subsidence has been added to the list. In the past four months, seven instances of…

A new study, published this week in the journal Diabetologia, takes a deeper look at the role of exercise in the development of type 2 diabetes. It is the most in-depth study to examine…

Increasing the number of HIV/AIDS reference laboratories across the country is on the agenda of the Health Ministry for the current Iranian year that ends in March 2017, said head of the ministry’…

About 40% of medical students are in need of some sort of psychological counseling, said deputy health minister for cultural and student affairs.

The country’s first healthcare service center for prison inmates was inaugurated in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Provice on Monday in the presence of Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi.

An Iranian drug lord, (name, age not revealed) whose networks spanned across eastern and western Iran, has been caught by Iranian police forces, said chief prosecutor of Alborz Province Ahmad…

Iran and Azerbaijan plan to launch a joint website to sell the products of both countries, Iran’s telecoms minister said on October 17. Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology…

While Samsung may be going through one of the worst public relations disasters its mobile division has had, Apple will most likely cash in on the situation.

Samsung has cancelled all…

London-based Vodafone telecoms Group and HiWeb, an Iranian ISP, announced on Tuesday a non-equity “Partner Market agreement” that allows the British company access to the lucrative Iranian market…

Tehran’s Milad Tower hosted Iran’s first conference on 5G on October 17 with industry professionals and international experts in attendance.

Iran’s mobile communications market is growing…

Iran has a total of 2,715 knowledge-based businesses, 239 of which are industrial companies, said an official affiliated with the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade.

According to…

The Persian dubbing of the Iranian feature animated movie ‘The Elephant King’ directed by Hadi Mohammadian has started. The film which is still in the production stage will also be dubbed in three…

Iran will participate in the 61st International Belgrade Book Fair, slated for October 23-30 in Belgrade, Serbia, as the guest of honor and will introduce Iranian culture and literature to a wider…

After a hiatus of over one year, the Cultural Center of Book City Institute is resuming its fiction writing course, this time focusing on ‘Genre Fiction’.

The novel writing course is to be…