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Bangladesh aims to boost trade with Canada to $5 bln by 2020

DHAKA 15 (NsNewsWire) – Bangladesh aims to boost trade with Canada to $5.0 billion by 2020 from the present level of $2.0 billion, a business leader said on Saturday. Bangladesh has been enjoying duty-free market access to Canada since 2003. Potential trading opportunities to explore include expanding Canadian imports of readymade garments, jute, ceramic tableware […]

India lags behind in implementing connectivity projects with ASEAN

NEW DELHI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) — India has extended the deadline for its connectivity projects with Myanmar and Thailand up to 2019, delaying the building of two transport projects linking India’s northeast state Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand through Myanmar, said the Times of India Sunday. This could affect negatively the implementation of Delhi’s […]

China’s pollution control not enough: vice minister

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (NsNewsWire) — China’s emission cuts are not enough to help improve the environment, vice environment minister Zhai Qing said on Friday. Speaking to reporters at a regular press briefing a few days ahead of Spring Festival when air quality is expected to plummet due to fireworks, Zhai said pollution reduction had made […]

Maritime Silk Road initiative to reduce friction, catalyze common prosperity

by Xinhua Writer Wang Haiqing Even a not-so-close scrutiny of the maritime Silk Road proposed by China will allow the observer to know that the route passes large areas in the South China Sea. With China laying bear its concepts and intentions of win-win development, common prosperity and cultural inclusiveness in initiating such a route, […]

Summit forum of int’l seminar on Maritime Silk Road held in SE China

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation of the U.S., gives a speech during the summit forum of the international seminar on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road held in Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Feb. 12, 2015. The seminar opened here on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)

Bangladeshi job seekers rush to land jobs in Saudi Arabia

by Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Everybody seems to be in a mad rush to have their names registered with the relevant authorities to try and secure jobs in Saudi Arabia. Unemployed and in a dire need of employment, job seekers braved opposition enforced strikes and non-stop blockades to travel […]

leaders from Facebook, Telenor Group, Airtel Africa, Millicom to participate World Mobile Congress keynote sessions

London, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA Wednesday announced the Mobile World Live Keynote sessions for Mobile World Congress 2015. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, will participate in a keynote alongside leaders from Airtel Africa, Millicom and Telenor Group on the evening of Monday, 2 March. The United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler […]

Explore Bangladesh From Your Computer, Thanks to Google Street View

DHAKA, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — People from around the world can now explore Bangladesh from their smartphone or PC with the launch of Google Street View service in the South Asian country on February 5, 2015. Roam the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh’s two largest cities, or explore digital panoramic imagery of 40 of the country’s most important historic, […]

Saudi Arabia signs deal with Bangladesh to hire 120,000 workers a year

DHAKA, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Just about a week after lifting a seven-year employment ban, Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding with Bangladesh to hire some 120,000 workers in a year from Bangladesh. The deal was struck Tuesday night after the visiting 19-member Saudi team, led by Ahmad Bin Fahad Al Fuhaid, deputy minister […]