Death toll rises to 44 from massive Tianjin blasts

TIANJIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — The death toll has climbed to 44 from two massive blasts that ripped through a warehouse in north China’s port city of Tianjin as of Thursday noon, according to rescue headquarters. Twelve firefighters were among the dead. A total of 520 people have been hospitalized, including 66 critically injured.  

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Chinese embassy spokesman refutes U.S. media hype over “Chinese hacker” invasion

BEIJING, Aug. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Groundless accusations and “microphone diplomacy” are not solving any problems, said spokesman of the Chinese embassy in Washington Zhu Haiquan on Monday. Zhu was responding to a NBC report which accused China of trying to invade senior U.S. government officials’ private email, reports Xinhua. “Combating cross-border network hacker attacks needs […]

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CPA Ireland Signs Deal to Offer Accounting Certificate in Bangladesh

By Michael Cohn The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide an online CPA Certificate in IPSAS Financial Reporting in Bangladesh, reports accounting today. CPA Ireland has been signing a series of such deals this year to provide its […]

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Beijing to close roads, metro stations for night parade rehearsal

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Beijing will shut down roads and close metro stations for night rehearsals of a parade to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, schedule on Sept. 3. According to the Beijing police, the rehearsals will be held from 10:30 p.m. Aug.13 […]

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Bangladesh team visits KILA

A team of high-level officials from Bangladesh has arrived at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) to learn about democratic decentralisation and child-friendly panchayats. Representatives of the UNICEF from Bangladesh are also accompanying them. The 40-member team is here to evolve a development strategy for the backward local body institutions of 20 districts in […]

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Google restructures, being part of Alphabet

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Google announced Monday restructuring its operations by creating a publicly traded parent company known as Alphabet Inc. “Our company is operating well today,” Google co-founder Larry Page wrote in a letter included in a regulatory filing, “but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.” Alphabet, designed […]

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Wang Yi on the South China Sea Issue At the ASEAN Regional Forum

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made an impromptu response by comprehensively elaborating Beijing’s position and refuting the groundless accusations from the Philippines and Japan. He made the response on  Aug. 6 during the foreign ministers’ meetings of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), where the […]

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