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IFAD and Bangladesh invest US$92.4million to improve livelihoods for poorest rural households in flood-prone areas

ROME, Feb. 13 (NsNewsSire) — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bangladesh signed a financing agreement today to sustainably improve incomes and promote resilience to extreme weather conditions for 303,000 rural households in six flood-prone districts in northern Bangladesh. The agreement for the Promoting Resilience of Vulnerable through Access to Infrastructure, Improved […]

India@Bangladesh 2.0’ Art Camp

DHAKA, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — The High Commission of India in collaboration with Jahangirnagar University (Department of Fine Art) is organizing the India@Bangladesh 2.0’ Art Camp, scheduled to be held from 17th February to 19th February, 2018. 2. Fifty artists nominated by universities and specialized art institutions across Bangladesh would participate in the event to […]

Dual suspension on Korean Peninsula takes effect at Olympics

Dual suspension on Korean Peninsula takes effect at Olympics Source:Global Times Published: 2018/2/12 23:13:40 Intense diplomatic interactions between South and North Korea have overwhelmed the Pyeongchang Olympics. In the past few days, Pyongyang seemed to direct this diplomatic show with Seoul an actor. The US and Japan were unhappy and threw brickbats at the show, […]

Xi visits BeiDou-3 launch site, extends festival greetings to all servicemen

Chinese President Xi Jinping(front), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a satellite launch site at a military base in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Feb. 10, 2018. Xi visited the military base on Saturday ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. […]

West demonizes China-Africa cooperation

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/2/11 22:56:02 Western companies have gradually lost ground in the African market, yet Western media outlets have become more vile, venting their dissatisfaction on China. Given the tremendous scale of China-Africa trade, it’s not difficult to find fault with it. Western media is especially adept at fabricating stories that would tarnish China’s […]

First-ever photography exhibition on disaster preparedness held in Bangladesh

by Multimedia Correspondent Musharraf Hossain Ahmed DHAKA, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) & SEEDS Asia Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Photography Exhibition Award Ceremony was held Sunday in capital Dhaka. As a part of Japanese Technical Cooperation Project under the JICA Partnership Program titled “Capacity Building for Community-Based DRR in Urban […]

Prof Yunus Condoles Death of Asma Jahangir

DHAKA, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement which Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus issued Sunday expressing his condolence to the death of Ms Asma Jahangir. “I am deeply shocked at the untimely death of human rights activist Ms Asma Jahangir of Pakistan.South Asia has lost an ardent […]

Bangladesh’s largest opposition consults allies

DHAKA, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s largest opposition party Sunday held a meeting with its partners following the jail sentence of its chief Khaleda Zia. According to the meeting sources, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders discussed the party’s next course of action with the leaders of the BNP-led 20-party alliance. A lower court Thursday awarded […]

English versions of three Chinese children’s books receive American award

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) — The English translations of three Chinese children’s books were listed on the 2018 Outstanding International Books list (OIB) by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY). “Little Rabbit’s Questions,” one of the three books, was written and illustrated by Gan Dayong, translated by Helen Wang and published […]