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DHAKA, Sept. 19 (NsNewsWire) — On September 23rd, 2017, 8 of Bangladesh’s best seed stage startups will compete in a pitching event powered by GP Accelerator to represent Bangladesh at the Seedstars Regional and Global Summits and win up to USD 1 million in equity...

NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (NsNewsWire) — New research developed jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO)1  and the Walk Free Foundation2 , in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)3 , has revealed the true scale of modern slavery around...

DHAKA, Sept. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh police braced Monday as more than 10,000 Islamist hardliners marched on the Myanmar embassy to protest against the violence driving the Rohingya Muslim minority out of the Buddhist-majority nation, reports AFP. A huge crowd of...

Gold Coast: Sept. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Brisbane Airport will be hub of activity during GC2018 with over 20,000 athlete bags, more than 500 bike travel cases and the Queen’s Baton which will arrive on Christmas Eve, just 100 days before the Games begin. With prized cargo...

Gold Coast, Sept. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The Queen’s Baton will arrive on home soil just in time for Christmas, landing at Brisbane Airport on December 24, 100-days before the Games. Already 188 days into its 288-day international journey, the Baton is currently in Europe having...

Geneva, Sept. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians has expressed deep concern about the flawed justice, torture and intimidation in the investigation of the 1998 assassination of the...

DHAKA, Sept. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) in a statement Sunday said, “We the undersigned organisations would like to stress that, with the initiative of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), the Rohingya Intellectual...

DHAKA, Sept. 13 (NsNewsWire) — A major UNHCR airlift with emergency relief supplies for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is today under way, with the first flight having landed in Dhaka just before 04:30 this morning. A UNHCR-chartered Boeing 777 flew in with 91 metric...

Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament, was declared elected as Singapore’s first woman president on Wednesday, after the returning officer announced she was the sole candidate to qualify for the contest, reports reuters.

DHAKA, Sept. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s community media sector demanded that global and neighboring countries leaders, civil societies of Myanmar and the United Nations (UN) put pressure on the Myanmar government to stop “genocide” and persecution against Rohingyas....