Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — China Mobile, the world’s largest telecom operator by number of subscribers, announced on Monday that Shang Bing has replaced Xi Guohua as board chairman. Shang, 60, worked as senior manager for China Unicom and China Telecom before becoming vice head of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2011. […]
Read MoreSYDNEY, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — Australian researchers are examining how the social networking service Twitter can help those who are unable to communicate by speech. The research’s initial findings, conducted at the University of Newcastle, suggested Twitter is an important tool for adults with speech disabilities from stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, autism and […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Usain Bolt is back! The Jamaican, whose appearance in Beijing even was in doubt months before the world championships, stormed to defend his 100 meters title in 9.79 seconds on Sunday at Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest where he turned into an athletics phenomenon with two world-record Olympic wins in the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 24 (NsNewsWire) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) would release another installment of loan of 1 billion U.S. dollars early next month, said Bangladesh Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Sunday. “I believe another installment of IMF’s loan will be released by the end of this month or early next month as […]
Read MoreMOSCOW, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — The China-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt initiative is not a competitor, but a partnership project for Russia, the country’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday. “The project of the Silk Road belt is in no way a competitor for us, to some extent, it is a partnership project, which we […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top three telecom operators saw a healthy spike in revenue in July thanks to services like 4G, official data showed, reports Xinhua. The three companies — China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom — reported combined telecom business revenue of 192.8 billion yuan (30.2 billion dollars) last month, up […]
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By Safiul Azam, ACMA* On 21st July this year the group of world’s top emerging economies launched its New Development Bank (NDB). The bank backed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) looks set to emerge as an alternative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, although the group says it […]
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year, reports AFP
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 20 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested three apex court lawyers for their alleged funding of a local militant group — Shaheed Hamja Brigade. As part of operations to disrupt the flow of money to terrorist groups, RAB spokesman Colonel Miftah Uddin Ahmed told the journalists at […]
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