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Housing Investment Hits Rls120 Trillion
Domestic Economy Desk Currently, 120 trillion rials worth of investments have been made in the housing sector, said the minister of roads and urban construction in Sirjan, Kerman province, on Tuesday. Ali Nikzad added that according to the March 2012 census, close to 21.2 million households live in 21.6 million housing units. "Over 2.1 million rural houses have been reinforced since ...
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Zanjan Iron Reserves At 12m Tons
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 1,038 tons of various fruits, worth $786.7 million, in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), said the deputy head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Kioumars Fathollah Kermanshahi noted that the figure shows a 29.8-percent and 25.8-percent increase in terms of value and weight respectively compared with the corresponding figure of the ...
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Electricity Exchange With 7 Neighboring States
Translated by Leila Imani Electricity exports to neighboring countries will exceed 12 billion kilowatt-hours kw/h by the end of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the deputy energy minister for energy and electricity. Mohammad Behzad said Iran exchanges electricity with Armenia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Afghanistan, Fars News Agency reported. He ...
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15000 Tons of Egg Exported
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 1,038 tons of various fruits, worth $786.7 million, in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), said the deputy head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Kioumars Fathollah Kermanshahi noted that the figure shows a 29.8-percent and 25.8-percent increase in terms of value and weight respectively compared with the corresponding figure of the ...
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Armenia to Continue Energy Cooperation
Bangladesh's Finance Minister Abu Ma'al Abdul Muhith said his country is highly interested in joining the multibillion-dollar project, which will take Iran's gas reserves to Pakistan and probably India. "If Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is expanded up to India, we can join it," the Bangladeshi minister said in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday, Fars News Agency reported. ...
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Twofold Rise in Potato’s Regional Sales
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 654,000 tons of potato to regional countries in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), showing a twofold rise compared with the corresponding figure of previous year. Announcing this, Hassan Khadangi, director general of the Vegetable Office of Agricultural Jihad Ministry's Department for Horticultural Production, said about 350,000 tons of ...
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Africa Economy Seeks New Branding
From Page 1 European leaders gather this week for a summit overshadowed by rampant unemployment and the deepening eurozone recession, but with hopes of breaking down resistance to a planned crackdown on tax evasion. The one-day talks was dedicated weeks ago to the political fight to uncover unpaid taxes hidden away in Swiss or even EU bank vaults, EU Business reported. But days ahead of the ...
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Sri Lanka Bourse Slips
Sri Lanka shares retreated from the previous session's 19-month high as investors booked profits in banking and telecommunication shares after the recent rally pushed the bourse into overbought territory. The main stock index fell 0.39 percent, or 25.03 points, to close at 6,441.64, slipping for the first time in the last five sessions. The bourse hit its highest close since Oct. 14, 2011 ...
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IMF Sees Saudi Slowdown
Saudi economic growth will slow to 4.4 percent in 2013 from 6.8 percent last year, due to an expected fall in oil production and cuts in government spending, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. Overall GDP growth is expected at 4.4 percent because oil output is likely to be lower than its average level in 2012 and the growth rate of government spending looks set to slow, said the ...
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Yasooj Cement Exports Reach 4000 Tons
Economy Desk Yasooj has exported over 4,000 tons of cement to Iraq since the start of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the head of Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Industries, Mines and Trade Department. Daryoush Divdideh added that the monthly production of cement clinker reached its highest level during March 21-April 21. "The factory has produced 26,244 tons of clinker during ...
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IKCO to Launch Iraq Car Assembly Line
Economy Desk Yasooj has exported over 4,000 tons of cement to Iraq since the start of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the head of Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Industries, Mines and Trade Department. Daryoush Divdideh added that the monthly production of cement clinker reached its highest level during March 21-April 21. "The factory has produced 26,244 tons of clinker during ...
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Translations of Achaemenid Tablets to Be Published
Iranica Desk The Persian and English translations of 647 Achaemenid clay tablets will be published in a book by the end of the current Iranian year (started March 21). Announcing this, Abdolmajid Arfaei, a researcher and translator of ancient languages, said the tablets are presently in the US, adding that the name of the book is 'Clay Tablets of Persepolis'. He noted that he has ...
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Peace and Friendship Parks On Agenda
Iranica Desk Department of Environment (DOE) plans to establish joint protected zones named peace and friendship parks with neighboring countries in border areas. Announcing this, Nasser Moqaddasi, director general of DOE's Office for Habitats, said setting up the parks will help boost cooperation between Iran and neighboring countries. He noted that efforts are underway to protect the ...
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Bahrain claims Iranian drone found
MANAMA, Bahrain -; Bahrain's Interior Ministry says an Iranian drone has been found in the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th ...
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More Afghan Women Jailed for “Moral Crimes”
The number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for "moral crimes" has risen by 50 percent in the past 18 months, a rights group says. Human Rights Watch says many are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence, BBC reported. Others are behind bars as a result of alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape, it said. The government ...
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Chinese Man Finds Family After 23 Years
Translated by Atefeh Rezvan-Nia Edited by Mohammad Reza M. Karimi Graphic warning labels and images on cigarette packets, currently produced in Iran, are not effective in preventing individuals from tobacco use. Announcing this, Dr. Gholamreza Heydari, the head of Narcotics Research Center in Tehran's Shahid Beheshti Medical University, said the warning signs should be clear and make ...
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Pakistan Issues Dress Code To Solve Electricity Shortage
Pakistan has come up with a novel way of confronting the country's worsening electricity shortage: turning off the air-conditioning in government offices and ordering all the employees not to wear socks. Civil servants across the country have been sent a memo detailing the new dress code, which came into force last week. Sandals and moccasins are now to be worn by all staff, but without ...
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Vox Pop Iranians React To Dismissal Of Presidential Hopefuls
RFE/RL's Radio Farda received a flood of comments via e-mail, Facebook, telephone, and on text messages from its audience in Iran that overwhelmingly express disappointment and anger at the Guardians Council's final list of candidates for Iran's June 14 presidential election. In an informal poll conducted on Radio Farda's website, 76 percent of respondents said they ...
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More Girls Attend School In Niger
The number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for "moral crimes" has risen by 50 percent in the past 18 months, a rights group says. Human Rights Watch says many are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence, BBC reported. Others are behind bars as a result of alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape, it said. The government ...
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Bayern Munich to Build Mosque
To help their players fulfill their religious duties, German football giant Bayern Munich will build a mosque to help Muslim footballers perform their prayers. The mosque will be built in Allianz Arena ...
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Butterflies That Fly Underwater
We've all been taken aback by the beauty of a butterfly. But who knew sea butterflies were almost as impressive. Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off the coast of Mexico and California, Huffington Post said. Sea butterflies, also ...
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General Presents Iranian-Produced Weapons and Equipment
Tehran, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Iran''s Minister of Defense, General Ahmad Vahidi, presented new military equipment and weapons today, marking the anniversary of the recapture of Khorramshahr city, previously occupied by Iraq in the 1980-88 war. A camouflage uniform accompanied by infrared binoculars, assault rifles and other weapons are part of the new equipment that will be ...
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Waterproof Shorts With Built-In Dry Bag
Holidaymakers no longer have to worry about leaving expensive items on the beach when swimming, thanks to the latest creation by an American designer. Tom Turner, from Salt Lake City, has created an innovative pair of swimming shorts that offer a solution to the issue of leaving expensive items unattended, Daily Mail wrote. Styled to look like regular shorts, the trunks include a waterproof ...
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B Vitamins May Slow Advance of Alzheimer’s
Friends, relatives, colleagues and patients paid tribute to Professor Parvaneh Vosough, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mahak Cancer Hospital, during the funeral ceremony held in Tehran on May 21. Prof. Vosough died on May 19 at the age of 78, Mehr News Agency reported. Everyone in Mozaffar Street loved her green Volkswagen that was a fixture at Ali Asghar Hospital, making evident the ...
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Iran Produces Clean Fuel From Water
We've all been taken aback by the beauty of a butterfly. But who knew sea butterflies were almost as impressive. Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off the coast of Mexico and California, Huffington Post said. Sea butterflies, also ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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