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HONG KONG, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) — A total of 74,000 marathon runners on Sunday gathered in Hong Kong for 2018 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, which was described as the golden road race by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The competitions, held by...

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — A power sector project of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is considered as a transformative milestone for rural Bangladesh, elating the country’s millions of people who live in areas which were earlier without...

by Feng Yingqiu NAY PYI TAW, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to escape conflict in Myanmar‘s western Rakhine state starting from Jan. 23, reports Xinhua. Under the agreement on the repatriation...

COX’S BAZAR,  Jan. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The health and safety of more than 520,000 Rohingya children living in overcrowded camps and informal settlements in Bangladesh is likely to be put at even greater risk ahead of upcoming cyclone and monsoon seasons, UNICEF warned toda...

More than 12 million boxes of powdered baby milk have now been recalled in 83 countries in a salmonella scandal involving French company Lactalis, reports BBC. The dairy firm’s CEO, Emmanuel Besnier, confirmed the extent of the contamination risk to French media. The...

MANILA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao said on Friday that ADB and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are exploring to co-finance several development projects this year. “We have been cooperating well,”...

DHAKA, Jan. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 14 January 2018 – As part of an intensified response to the current diphtheria outbreak, WHO, UNICEF and health sector partners are working with the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to vaccinate more...

DHAKA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — Three militants were killed on Friday morning in a raid launched by Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force on a militant hideout near Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s office in capital Dhaka. Anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion...

Reuters, Washington Former US President Bill Clinton on Monday called for the immediate release of two Reuters journalists being held in Myanmar. “A free press is critical to a free society – the detention of journalists anywhere is unacceptable. The Reuters journalists...

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/1/7 22:33:39 In his new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff portrays US President Donald Trump as a person with mental health issues. Quoting people like former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, the book...