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Xi’s South Pacific trip to promote regional cooperation

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Days after hosting his colleagues for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, Chinese President Xi Jinping will fly across the equator Friday for a back-to-back gathering of world leaders. In Australia’s Brisbane, where the 9th Group of 20 (G20) Summit is to be held on Nov. 15-16, Xi will continue brainstorming […]

Bangladesh labour supply to Malaysia to increase

Malaysia, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is ready to help supply labour to meet demand from Malaysia’s agriculture and plantation industries for workers and this can be best done through the government to government transfer system between both nations. “There are around 500,000 Bangladeshi laborers across Malaysia at the moment, except in Sabah. Through the […]

Modern prawn trade center inaugurated for southwestern Bangladesh farmers

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — A joint venture trade center with all modern fish processing and standard facilities has been inaugurated in Bangladesh’s southwestern Khulna district for hundreds of prawn farmers. The ‘SaFaL – Model Fish Buy & Sell Centre’ was inaugurated by Abdur Rashed, deputy director of Fish Inspection & Quality Control (FIQC), Department […]

Japan supports agricultural mechanization in rural Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Japan has lent its support to farmers in a rural Bangladesh district for agricultural mechanization. The inaugural ceremony of the installation of agricultural machinery under a project for the poor and landless farmers of Uzirpur sub-district in Bangladesh’s Barisal district was held on Nov. 12, said a statement of Japanese […]

Palestinians mark Arafat’s 10th anniv. amid growing internal feuds

GAZA/RAMALLAH, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Amid growing internal feuds between the Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza marked the tenth death anniversary of late former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday. Abbas, who succeeded Arafat in leading Fatah and the executive committee of […]

US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs arrives today

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will visit Bangladesh on Nov. 12-13. Rivkin has been serving as assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs since February last year, said a US embassy statement in Dhaka. Prior to his appointment, he served […]

Bangladesh imports surge 10 pct in Q1 of current fiscal year

DHAKA, Nov. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s imports surged 10 percent year on year to nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year (July 2014-June 2015), showed the central bank. According to statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as actual imports, […]

Bangladesh signs 1.12 bln USD Padma river training deal with Sinohydro

DHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a nearly 90 billion taka (over 1.12 billion U.S. dollars) deal with Chinese Sinohydro Corporation Limited for training works of the country’s 3 billion U.S. dollars Padma bridge project. Shafiqul Islam, director of the Bangladesh’ Padma bridge project, and Lyu Liushan, a senior official of Sinohydro Corporation […]

নূর হোসেন চত্বরে ছাত্রদলের শ্রদ্বা নিবেদন

ঢাকা, ১০ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — নূর হোসেন দিবস উপলক্ষে আজ রাজধানীর জিরো পয়েন্টে নূর হোসেন চত্বরে জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদলের নেতা-কর্মীরা শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন । সকাল আটটায় ছাত্রদলের পক্ষে সভাপতি রাজিব আহসান ও সাধারন সম্পাদক মোঃ আকরামুল হাসান ফুল দিয়ে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন। এ সময় উপস্থিত ছিলেন বিএনপি’র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব আমান উল্লাহ আমান,যুগ্ম মহাসচিব রুহুল কবির রিজভী,বিএনপি’র […]