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DHAKA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — Malaysia beat Bangladesh, 3-2, in the final of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football Tournament 2015 here on Sunday night. The hosts equalised twice in the second half but a goal by Malaysian midfielder Mohammad Faizad during the extra time broke the hearts of millions of Bangladeshis at the Bangabandhu National […]
Read Moreby Shi Xiaomeng UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — “I thought the story was very powerful. It was about family, love, adventure, friendship, and inheritance,” Maria Kucinski said after watching a traditional Chinese dance drama “Dream of the Maritime Silk Road.” Admitting that she has never learnt anything before about Maritime Silk Road — a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh moves into Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football final with 1-0 against Thailand in the second semi-final here on Friday night. Defender Nasiruddin Chowdhury scored the winning goal for the hosts against the strong Thailand side at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka from a corner in the 39th minute of the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s Islamist party’s student wing has called a countrywide strike for Sunday amid the main opposition alliance’s ongoing non-stop blockade campaign that entered 32nd day on Friday. Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami party, key ally ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s 20-party opposition alliance, called the dawn-to-dusk […]
Read MoreGUANGZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Over 17 people were killed in a fire in south China’s Guangdong Province, local authorities said on Friday. The fire broke out at about 1:51 p.m. on Thursday in a warehouse on the fourth floor of a small merchandise wholesale market in Huidong County. It had been put under control […]
Read MoreMOSCOW, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Russia warned on Thursday that possible U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine would not only escalate the conflict in the country, but also threaten Russia’s security. “We are very seriously concerned by these plans. Taking into account the retaliatory plans of Kiev’s ‘party of war’, this could not only escalate the […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday pledged to continue strong ties with China. In a message to mark the Chinese New Year, President Sirisena noted the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Sri Lanka last September and affirmed that ties between Sri Lanka and China will continue […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The White House was cautious on Wednesday in its comments on the Jordanian government’s retaliatory execution of two Iraqi extremists after the Islamic State (IS) released a video purporting to show IS burning alive a Jordanian pilot hostage. “These were individuals who were sentenced to death and were serving time […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered obtaining accurate information on the TransAsia Airways airplane that crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday as quickly as possible and providing assistance in treating the injured people. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of […]
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