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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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East Asia
Russia to Host CIS Summit in October 2017
A summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take place in Russia in October 2017, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said on September 11, Sputnik reports. Russia will host the summit and will assume the CIS chairmanship, he explained. “A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of…
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West Asia
At least 38% of citizens not to trust any Azerbaijani bank
Business Insight Company has conducted the survey that has affected the attitude of Baku citizens to the banks. According to the survey, in August 37.6% of citizens did not trust any banks, and 8.8% of citizens neither agree nor disagree. For comparison, in January the indexes amounted to 33.1% and…
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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
Skype – parents of the South Caucasus: labor migrants and their families back home
Summer time. Time for vacation, for breaks, for trips and meetings and get-togethers. A time for family. In parks and cafés, you can see parents strolling about with their children. From the outside, they might appear to be models of familial felicity — however, for many of them, this might…
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Central Asia
Strategic exercise Kavkaz-2016 begins in Russia’s Southern Military District
A strategic command staff exercise codenamed Kavkaz-2016 with 12,500 troops taking part has begun in the Southern Military District, the Russian Defense Ministry has said, TASS reports. “The Kavkaz-2016 exercise is the final phase of a package of command staff and special practices and drills for military command bodies and snap…
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South Asia
Iran and Afghanistan stress development of Chabahar Port
Iranian top Presidential aide, Akbar Torkan and Afghan Minister of Trade and Industry Homayoun Rasa in a meeting on September 5 stressed development of Chabahar Port, IRNA reports. During the meeting, Torkan who is also secretary of the Supreme Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and Special Economic Zones said…
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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
G20 Hangzhou summit is continuative and constructive
Bao Jie and Li Feng – People’s Daily “China this year has been very constructive and diligent about ensuring the continuity of the work that has been done in the last few years in Turkey, Australia and Russia. But also I think China has done an excellent job of introducing…
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