Iran produces 300 out of the 460 types of handicraft products, which places the country up there with China and India as the top three producers of handicrafts
Iran’s revenue from…
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Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has ticked off 437 Special Tourism Zones from a list of 1,168, clearing it of zones that did not meet the organization’s criteria.…
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US officials might be highly worried about the spread of Zika to Miami’s South Beach. But on Saturday morning following Friday’s announcement that five local cases of Zika had spread to Miami-Dade…
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Poor service quality and failure to meet legal obligations have cost 15 travel agencies in Tehran their permits in the past two months.
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Thailand’s immigration authorities will begin imposing new charges for visas on arrival beginning next month, raising the current fee from 1,000 baht ($28) to 2,000 baht ($57), local media…
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A Tehran-based tour operator has questioned whether lifting the ban on tours to Turkey was a wise decision, as the lack of security in the country makes it challenging to guarantee tourists’…
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The first education and science park was inaugurated on Saturday in the presence of high-ranking officials in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province. The park named ‘Bazima’ (literally ‘our games’),…
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More than half of Iranians are not members of any social networks, a new survey has found. According to a review by the Iranian Students Polling Agency (affiliated to the Iranian Academic Center…
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A new plan to provide simple dietary recommendations to the public is under development by the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical…
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A picture is worth a thousand words - or at least that is the philosophy behind a New York clinic that is creating Zika-inspired art to raise awareness about the virus.
At ‘All City’, a…
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Strategies adopted to check social harm so far have not achieved the desired results and “we need to find or create new methods,” said deputy health minister Ali Akbar Sayyari at a function at the…
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When the heart stops suddenly, it can sometimes be restarted with an electric shock from an automated external defibrillator (AED) – but even when an AED is nearby, it’s often locked up out of…
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The Health Ministry has plans to ban hookah use in traditional restaurants and rest houses along roads across the country, said deputy minister Ali Akbar Sayyari. “Tobacco consumption is a leading…
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A blast at one of the ammonia storage tanks at an ice factory in Chaharrah Zand neighborhood of Ahwaz in Khuzestan Province sent dozens of people to hospital on Friday. “At 9 pm, the emergency…
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At least 70,000 Iranians suffer from Multiplesclerosis (MS) as per official data, and around 2 million people around the world have MS, said Seyed Hossein Vaziri, head of Iran Multiple Sclerosis…
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Scientists on Thursday set the outlines of a report on how to restrict global warming to a limit agreed last year by world leaders—even though the temperature threshold is at risk of being…
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A scheme drawn up by the Department of Environment to add environmental education to the curricula of schools nationwide could go into effect as early as September 22 (beginning of the new…
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The number of renovated taxis in Tehran reached 3,000 following Tehran Municipality’s move to offer low-interest loans to cabbies in cooperation with Bank Shahr (Persian for City Bank).
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White cloth masks are ubiquitous in many Asian cities where urban commuters must daily battle significant pollution, but new research suggests the masks offer limited protection from harmful…
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The amount of mazut used by power plants across the country has dropped to 9%—down from 43% in 2013—and is expected to reach zero by the end of the current Iranian year (ends March 20, 2017).…
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Every hour, 26 adolescents are infected with HIV worldwide, with girls exposed to the highest risk, said UNICEF Representative in Iran, Dr Will Parks, at a workshop involving staff of All-In…
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Childless Iranian couples can adopt children only if they have been married for a minimum of five years and one of the spouses is at least 30 years old. But for a physician couple, the court has…
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While gender stereotype holds that men should be the main breadwinners in a household, a new study suggests they would prefer women to take some of the financial burden; researchers find the…
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Iran’s Package of Essential Non-communicable diseases (IRAPEN) intervention was unveiled recently in Baft City, Kerman Province in the presence of Health Minister Seyed…
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The number of emerging infectious diseases affecting people has more than tripled since the 1940s. Nearly 60% of all human diseases and 75% of all new, emerging, or re-emerging…
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