Washington’s paranoia toward China spreads to campuses

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/3 20:32:08 The University of Minnesota recently suspended its exchanges with China’s Huawei Technologies. In a memorandum sent to the university deans, Vice President for Research Chris Cramer said “we consider it prudent to suspend our interactions with Huawei” given the “extraordinary level of concern” raised by federal indictments. According to the […]

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World Bank Helps Bangladesh in Public Financial Management

WASHINGTON, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — he World Bank has approved a $100 million credit for improving fiscal forecasting, and public budget preparation and execution. The Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) Program to Enable Service Delivery program will support the government’s PFM Action Plan 2016-2021 and will help improve fiscal discipline, financial reporting and greater transparency […]

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Haste, lack of preparation curtail Kim-Trump summit

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/1 20:28: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho held a press conference on early Friday morning, refuting US President Donald Trump’s claim that Pyongyang had demanded complete sanctions relief after the summit in Hanoi between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which failed to reach a deal. Ri said North Korea […]

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Haste, lack of preparation curtail Kim-Trump summit

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/1 20:28:54 North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho held a press conference on early Friday morning, refuting US President Donald Trump’s claim that Pyongyang had demanded complete sanctions relief after the summit in Hanoi between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which failed to reach a deal. Ri said North Korea asked […]

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Our Captured, Wounded Hearts: Arundhati Roy On Balakot, Kashmir And India

With his reckless “pre-emptive” airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inadvertently undone what previous Indian governments almost miraculously, succeeded in doing for decades. Since 1947 the Indian Government has bristled at any suggestion that the conflict in Kashmir could be resolved by international arbitration, insisting that it is an “internal matter.” To read the full opinion piece of […]

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Bangladesh Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Dhaka

DHAKA, March 1 (Xinhua) — A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane on a domestic flight made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dhaka on Friday with no one hurt, the airlines’ spokesman said. Mesbah Uddin, domestic flights manager of the national flag carrier, told Xinhua that the Dash-8 plane, carrying 61 passengers and four […]

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Press Release on captured IAF pilot’s return to India

ISLAMABAD, March 1 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement that the Pakistani government issued Friday following the release of captured Indian pilot: “The captured Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman has been returned to India today. He was arrested when his military jet MIG-21 crashed in Azad […]

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Fire in Bangladesh capital kills two children

DHAKA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — Two children were killed as fire engulfed a slum in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka early Thursday, the fire service said. Authorities said the blaze burned some 150 closely packed thatched houses to the ground in the city’s “Jahangir slum,” which is home to thousands of poor people. Mahfuz Riben, a duty officer […]

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