• East Asia

    Google faces scrutiny by Korean regulators

    Lee Min-hyung – The Korea Times Search engine giant Google is facing increasing scrutiny by Korean regulators over the latest series of heated controversies surrounding its alleged involvement in tax evasion and abuse of its market dominance. The controversies include allegations that the Android operating system creator has breached the nation’s…

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  • Central Asia

    Tehran and Moscow to construct 2 Nuclear Power Plants in Iran

    Iran and Russia will construct two nuclear power plants in Iran, Spokesman of the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Sayid Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said Sputnik reports. Hosseini said on Saturday that Iran needs 20,000MW of electricity, which requires construction of about 10 nuclear power plants, Shana news agency…

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  • East Asia

    Korea to develop Nano-tech coop. with Iran

    Iran’s National Nanotechnology Initiative released the details of an agreement signed with Nano Technology Research Association of Korea, Mehr News Agency reports. During the time of the Nano exhibition in Korea, July 13 to 15, 2016, Iran’s National Nanotechnology Initiative (INNI) signed several agreements with Nano Technology Research Association of…

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  • East Asia

    Iran to purchase 20 small airplanes from Japan

    Iran’s Deputy Road and Urban Development Minister Asqar Fakhriyeh Kashan announced that his country is holding negotiations with the Japanese Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation to buy 20 small passenger airplanes, Fars News reports. “We have held negotiations with Japan to purchase MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet passenger) planes from Mitsubishi,” Fakhriyeh Kashan…

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  • West Asia

    Everyday with Samsung in Iran

    Alireza Bahrami/Iranian Journalist Editor-in-chief of  ISNA (Iranian Students’ News Agency) “Samsung” has become a part of Iranian culture while an issue, which did not exist in the history of a nation, needs some factors to be a part of that culture. The presence of this brand is undeniable among Iranian…

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  • West Asia

    Azerbaijan allocates $850M for refinery construction in Turkey

    Azerbaijani State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has allocated $844 million as of July 1, 2016, as part of the country’s financing the project of construction of a new oil refinery of Azerbaijan’s SOCAR in Turkey, SOFAZ told Trend. In accordance with the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on additional measures…

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  • East Asia

    Korea to start new healthcare project in Uzbekistan

    Director of KOICA Uzbekistan Office Im Jeong Hee and the Deputy Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Laziz Tuychiev have signed a protocol on the implementation of a new project “Creation of a center of excellence of medical personnel of the Children’s Diversified Medical Center and the 4th-level highly specialized multidisciplinary…

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  • West Asia

    Iran destroys 100,000 ‘depraving’ satellite dishes

    Iranian authorities have destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers as part of a widespread crackdown against illegal devices they say “deviate morality and culture”, Al Jazeera reports. General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of Iran’s Basij militia, oversaw the destruction ceremony in Tehran on July 24 and warned of the…

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  • Central Asia

    Japanese-Turkish consortium implements chemical project in Turkmenistan

    A workshop for the production of 500,000 tons of sulfuric acid per year was commissioned at a chemical plant in Turkmenabad town, Lebap region, Turkmenistan, Trend reports. According to the report, the project was implemented by a consortium consisting of Japanese Mitsui company and Turkish Ronesans company. “The design capacity…

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  • East Asia

    South Korea to build textile techno-park in Uzbekistan

    Tashkent recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Korea-Uzbekistan Textile Techno-Park in the territory of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, the Times of Central Asia cites the Jahan information agency report. The project to establish in Tashkent the Textile Training-Research Techno-Park until 2018, implemented by Uzbekistan’s light-industry…

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