Archeologists in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan have discovered an ancient cemetery in Dombkouh archeological site.
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Peach Aviation will become the first Japanese carrier to accept bitcoin as payment for airline tickets as the discount airline aims to attract more tourists from other parts of Asia.
The construction of an international water sport complex in Bushehr Province started last week, following an inauguration ceremony attended by Minister for Sports and Youth Masoud Soltanifar.
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Sweden has gone and listed the entire country on the short-term vacation rental site Airbnb, in a public relations stunt that aims to highlight its natural heritage.
The marketing campaign…
Chinese tourist numbers to South Korea plunged by two-thirds in April after Beijing banned tour groups over Seoul’s deployment of a US missile defense system, official statistics showed.
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The restoration of the three-star Shadi Hotel in Oraman, Kurdestan Province, is complete and the establishment now meets local standards.
Import of palm oil has declined by 300,000 tons a year over the past two years due to new health safety regulations and standards set by the Food and Drug Administration, said Rasoul Dinarvand,…
The Health Ministry’s Communicable Diseases Center has urged the public to only buy meat products approved by Iran’s Veterinarian Organization so as to be safe from the life-threatening Crimean-…
During the last year (ended March 20), 855 road crashes were reported on the Karaj-Chalus road, and 37 people lost their lives in the accidents, said Alborz Province Traffic Police Chief Colonel…
Health ministers of the G20 leading economies who met for the first time on Saturday, agreed to work together to tackle issues such as a growing resistance to antibiotics and to start implementing…
Treatment and healthcare services have become more affordable for people with cardiovascular diseases under the 2014 Health Reform Plan.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause…
A 4.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the city of Rivash in Khorasan Razavi Province on Saturday night. There were no reports on possible casualties or damage. According to the seismological center…
Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi leaves on Tuesday to take part in the 70th session of the World Health Assembly (May 22–31) in Geneva. The minister will return on May 26, said Dr…
Explosion of a landmine in the city of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province claimed the life of a person and injured another on Sunday evening.
More than 1,500 foreign and local experts have registered to take part in the 2nd National Festival and International Congress on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, said festival secretary…
Combating drought is impossible and Iran must learn instead to adapt to its effects, the head of the Drought and Climate Change Workgroup at the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension…
A government-proposed bill to protect wetlands is now ready to be signed into law by President Hassan Rouhani, nearly two years after it was sent to the Majlis for review.
An international team of researchers is arguing that dinosaurs could have evaded extinction had the asteroid that likely wiped them out slammed into the planet a few minutes earlier or later.
Tehran Municipality's measures in the past few years to control the population of whiteflies besieging the Iranian capital have failed to put an end to their onslaught, said the head of the…
Temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are increasing twice as fast as in the rest of the world, while the Antarctic Sea is warming at a much slower rate.
The number of organ donations from mostly brain dead people has increased significantly in the country. Last year that ended in March, 57% of patients with kidney failure received transplants from…
Every year, Iranian skin specialist and general physician Dr Nasser Emadi, a member of Doctors Without Borders and a board member of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, travels to Africa to…
Less than one-tenth of children support their elderly parents, according to head of the Iranian Geriatric Research Center affiliated to the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences…
The amount of salt in traditional bread or ‘nan’ in Iran had been reduced by 50% over the past decade, said Dr. Majid Faraji, board member of the Iranian Nutrition Society. “As the staple food…
Around 48% of people in Iran between the ages 15 and 64 have a BMI (Body Mass Index) over 25, which means almost half of the country’s adolescent and adult population is overweight or obese, says…
