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East Asia
Samsung for government
Oh Young-jin – The Korea Times One may rightly feel it absurd to put a private company in charge of government. True, private firms seek profits, while the role of the government is, well, to run the country — requiring it to serve many different purposes with profit at the…
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West Asia
Iran exports over $3.6 billion petrochemical products in 5 months
Iran exported over 3.6 billion dollar’s worth of different kinds of petrochemical products during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year, IRNA news agency reported. The country sold more than 8.724 million tons of a variety of petrochemicals to the international markets during the same period. The…
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Central Asia
Russia and Iran to begin construction work on Bushehr-2 NPP
Moscow and Tehran are set to launch the construction of the second stage of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on September 10, the ASE company said in a statement on September 6, TASS reports. ASE is an engineering company within Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom. According to the statement,…
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West Asia
Iran among 15 countries with rich mineral resources
Deputy minister of Industry, Mine and Trade said Iran is among the 15 top countries in terms of enjoying mineral resources, IRNA reports. Speaking in a local gathering, Mohammad-Taqi Korei said Iran enjoys more that one percent of global mineral resources while accessing to one percent of the world’s land…
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East Asia
Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou
People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global…
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East Asia
Japan-Turkey consortium building big plant in Turkmenistan
Consortium of Japan’s Kawasaki and Turkey’s Ronesans is constructing a big gas processing plant in Turkmenistan’s Ovadan to produce high-quality gasoline from natural gas, said the Turkmen oil and gas complex in a message Aug. 31, Trend reports. The project’s customer is the country’s Turkmengas State Concern. At the current…
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East Asia
Chinese unmanned metro to launch in 2017
Beijing has announced plans to unveil the country’s first domestically developed, fully automated subway next year, in tandem with the scheduled opening of the Yanfang line. The new line will connect the southeastern suburb of Yanshan, which houses a number of petroleum and chemical enterprises, with Fangshan, where passengers can…
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Central Asia
Iran to purchase 60 Russian light helicopters
The Russian Helicopters holding is in talks with Iran on the deliveries of Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters for Iran`s health ministry, the company’s press service said on August 23. “Russian Helicopters issue is in talks to supply Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters in the interest of the Ministry of…
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Central Asia
Kazakhstan and Israel to jointly manufacture UAVs
Kazakhstan and Israel have reached agreements on joint production of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle), Kazakh ministry of defense said on August 22, Trend reports. The message did not reveal the UAV models that Kazakhstan and Israel plan to manufacture. The agreements have been reached during the meeting of Kazakh and…
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East Asia
Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail project gets all permits
Seven months after ground was broken for Indonesia’s first high-speed railway, which is being developed by a China-Indonesia joint venture, the project received a construction permit for its entire length, media reports said on August 21. Experts said Sunday that construction should be completed within three years as planned, despite…
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