Category: 6. Culture

TEHRAN – With the financial support of the Government of Japan, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a cooperation document, aiming to help revive the…

TEHRAN – Over 1,100 technology experts from 16 countries, namely Pakistan, Oman, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, Tunisia, Iraq, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, India, Lebanon, Indonesia, Romania, Algeria, and the Netherlands, plus Iran, are competing in the…

Beijing university honors Hafez, praising Iranian poet’s universal voice

TEHRAN (Iran News)  Beijing’s Peking University has held a ceremony to commemorate Hafez, the revered 14th-century Iranian poet, with Chinese scholars highlighting his…

TEHRAN – The cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) screened the 1957 American legal mystery melodrama “Witness for the Prosecution,” directed by Billy Wilder, on Sunday.

The screening was a part of the “Law in…

TEHRAN – Paniz Acting Academy from Iran performed “Larva,” a comedy drama play, at the 17th Ethos International Theater Festival in Turkey on Sunday.

Written, designed, and directed by Sina Safavifar, the 60-minute play was staged at the…

Nader Yar-Ahmadi, the head of the National Organization for Migration, paid a visit to a school for Afghan refugee children in Tehran on Saturday.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, has lauded the efforts of the…

TEHRAN – Around 400,000 foreign nationals are legally working in the country, and the rest are unauthorized, Ali Baqeri, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, has said.

Referring to the employment status of…

TEHRAN – The Kunming Biodiversity Fund (KBF) in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has allocated financial resources to Iran to help the country mitigate sand and dust storms’ (SDSs) impacts.

According to the…

TEHRAN – The Motamed Cancer Institute, which has recently raised its status to the Iranian National Cancer Institute, continues to make significant steps toward improving the public health and well-being of society.

The President of the Motamed…