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China cuts retail oil prices

BEIJING, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top economic planner on Monday announced the retail price of gasoline would be reduced by 365 yuan (60 U.S. dollars) per tonne and diesel by 350 yuan per tonne, the 13th price slash since July. The adjustment, which will come into effective on Tuesday, means retail prices will drop […]

Demystifying the Science of Delivery: Learning from how Bangladesh Reduced Child Mortality

DHAKA, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The ‘science of delivery’, or bringing the right kinds of services effectively to the poor, is the key to eradicate extreme poverty, said Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world’s largest NGO. While visiting the World Bank Bangladesh office, he shared how perfecting the science […]

Through Kathak, a German choreographer tells the story of Bangladesh’s exploited garment workers

DHAKA, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — In April 2013, when the collapse of an old garment factory building in Dhaka left more than 1,100 labourers dead, the Western world suddenly opened its eyes to the exploitation of Bangladeshi garment workers by the international clothing industry. Much before the Rana Plaza collapse, however, German choreographer and theatre […]

Loosening Beijing embrace, Sri Lanka reviews China projects

Colombo, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Sri Lanka’s new government will review Chinese infrastructure projects awarded under the previous administration, a junior minister said, a move bound to please Indian and Western powers concerned about Beijing’s access in the island state. On Friday, the government said it would review a $1.5 billion port deal with China […]

Thousands rally in Pakistan’s Karachi against French magazine caricatures

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had published controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammad after members of […]

Aamir Khan’s PK: Fifth Week Box Office Review

Mumbai, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Aamir Khan-starrer PK maintained its exceptional performance in its fifth week and collected a total of Rs 338.1 crores at the domestic box office, according to a tweet by trade analyst Taran Adarsh. PK collected Rs 4.27 crore in its fifth week at the domestic box office box, Mr Adarsh […]

Smoked fish, dried herbs, vegetables: Kashmir’s winter delicacies

New Delhi, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — For centuries, locals in the landlocked Kashmir Valley have relished dried vegetables, smoked fish and wild herbs to survive during the extreme winter. The tradition lives on even today. As land links with the outside world would get snapped because of heavy snowfall on the mountain passes leading out […]

China Focus: Nutrition for poor children high on agenda

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — While urban parents worry that their children are obese, kids in the country’s underdeveloped rural regions are often malnourished. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Malnutrition threatens to hold back a generation of rural Chinese, reports Xinhua. Pickles and cold steamed buns are what five-year-old Mai Xiaoying takes to school for lunch. “I […]

Xi stresses adherence to dialectical materialism

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed dialectical materialism as a way to deepen reform. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday, reports Xinhua. […]