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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 (RAB) Director General Benzir Ahmed confirmed the death of three militants. “Bodies of three militants […]
Read MoreDHAKA,Jan. 11 (NsNewsWire) — The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth has visited the Southwest region in Cameroon and continued calls for peace and unity amid ongoing conflict in the region. During the final part of a five-day visit to the country in December, Secretary-General Patricia Scotland travelled to Buea, the capital of the southwest region of […]
Read MoreYINCHUAN, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — A driverless monorail transit system, the first developed in China, was tested on Wednesday in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The system “Yungui” was developed by China’s leading new energy vehicle maker BYD and telecom giant Huawei. A Yungui train ran on a rail four meters above ground at […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2018/1/10 16:18:40 The US House of Representatives unanimously passed the Taiwan Travel Act (HR 535) on Tuesday, calling on the White House to “encourage visits between US and Taiwan officials at all levels of government.” If the act is passed in the Senate and signed by US President Donald Trump into law, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Remittance-reliant Bangladesh expects 1.2 million overseas jobs for the country’s skilled and semi-skilled workforce in 2018, reports Xinhua. “We’re planning to send some 1.2 million Bangladeshis abroad with overseas employment this year,” Bangladeshi Minister of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Nurul Islam told journalists on Wednesday. The expectation comes after […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced two to death and three others to life in prison for their crimes committed during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The death-row inmates are Ujayer Ahmed Chowdhury, 63, and Nesar Ali, 75, while Yunus Ahmed, 71, Samsul Hossain Tarafder, 65, […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — A tense situation erupted in the Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe read a statement to the House over a Treasury bond scam committed at the Central Bank. Opposition legislators launched a protest in the middle of the House as Wickremesinghe read his statement, calling for […]
Read MoreInter-Korean talks deserve encouragement Source:Global Times Published: 2018/1/9 22:58:39 North Korea and South Korea held rare talks in Panmunjom on Tuesday, giving pause to tensions on the peninsula. It remains uncertain how far the talks, for the sake of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, can go. While many people hope the talks […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited as Guest of honour at the 100th conference of Indian Economic Association (IEA) on December 27, 2017 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He was invited at the historic centenary conference of IEA, which was established in 1917. He will give a special lecture for […]
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