Iran’s annual total-factor productivity index during the fiscal 2005-6 to 2016-17 hovered around zero, suggesting the neutral role played by productivity in the country’s economic growth.…
Shalamcheh border crossing, which connects Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan Province to Basra in Iraq, is open and operating normally, Iranian and Iraqi officials said in reaction to reports…
Trade ministers from 16 countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership confirmed that they will try to reach a broad agreement by the end of the year during a two-day meeting that…
Canada’s top trade negotiator said on Friday she and her US counterpart were making “very good progress” in talks to save the North American Free Trade Agreement amid increasing Canadian…
Argentina’s central bank governor, Luis Caputo, said on Friday that government financing for 2019 was more than sufficient and that high yields on the country’s sovereign debt were “exaggerated…
China’s trade surplus with the United States widened to a record in August even as the country’s export growth slowed slightly, an outcome that could push President Donald Trump to turn up the…
The inevitable march toward automation continues, analysts from the McKinsey Global Institute and Tata Communications wrote in separate reports this week.
Italy’s economy is in such a fragile state that even a minor recession could be very dangerous, according to a former director at the International Monetary Fund.
Italy’s coalition…
Cyprus’ gross domestic product growth expanded by 0.8% in the second quarter of this year compared to the first quarter, double the 0.4% growth rate in both the eurozone and the European Union,…
French linguist and Iranologist Gilbert Lazard died of old age on September 6. He was 98.
Lazard devoted a great part of his life studying Iranian culture and Farsi language. His work on…
Two acclaimed feature films by Shahram Mokri are slated to be screened as part of the Focus section at the 24th L’Etrange (Strange) Festival underway in Paris. The 40-year-old director is well…
Sayeh Gallery in Tehran is holding a photo exhibition featuring shots taken by Farhad Javid.
The exhibit titled “The Outlook Between Two Darkness” features 46 photos Javid has taken from…
The cold war spy novel “A Legacy of Spies” written by British author John le Carré is available in Persian.
It has been translated by Mehdi Fayazikia and published by Chatrang…
The children’s play “Butterflies on the Street” about child labor is on stage at Honar Hall in Tehran.
The musical drama written and directed by Nasser Avijeh deals with children…
Yale University in the US state of Connecticut has made writings and documents of Iranian author, literary scholar, critical editor and diplomat Ghassem Ghani (1893-1952) available to the public…
Seyyed Ehsan Emadi’s documentary on the private and military life of assassinated ex-prime minister Haj Ali Razmara is on the screen in a limited number of cinemas.
An exhibition featuring works of veteran and young emerging artists was launched on Friday at Negar Art Gallery.
All the paintings show flowers of various kinds, some in color others in…
Rezayan Art Gallery is holding a solo painting exhibition dedicated to the works of artist Mehdi Rezaeian.
Most of the works depict rural scenes. Two of the works show the historical…
A magnet motor production line in Isfahan Province was officially inaugurated on Thursday as part of an agreement signed between the Department of Environment, the Defense Ministry and Isfahan's…
Iran's Department of Environment has allocated about $200,000 for the enhancement of environmental protection infrastructures at the Golestan National Park.
The technical…
Following an international cave exploration mission that recently came to a close in Qizhalan Cave in Kermanshah Province, the geological formation was named the third deepest cave in the…
Thai fishermen and laborers whose livelihoods are threatened by rising sea levels kicked off an international day of protests in Bangkok on Saturday, where key UN talks are attempting to breathe…
A massive 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Philippines, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit the east coast of the island of Mindanao at 8.16 a.m. BST (3.15 p.m. local…
Iranian car manufacturer SAIPA managed to pre-sell 50,000 vehicles in less than two days, a testament to the public’s rush to turn their cash into safe-haven assets in view of the galloping…
The turmoil at Tesla Inc. has reached a fever pitch, with the news that two senior executives are leaving Elon Musk’s electric-car maker emerging hours after he wielding a sword behaved…
