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DHAKA, May 11 (NsNewsWire) — A large number of college and varsity students representing a number of educational institutions participated in the 15th Chinese Bridge contest held recently at the Chinese embassy in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. The contestants competed in three segments featuring poetry recitation, Q&As, and artistic performances. The Chinese embassy here conducted the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 10 (NsNewsWire) — Robi, as part of its Corporate Responsibility initiative has observed ‘World Thalassemia Day’ on May 8, 2016 by organizing a blood donation camp and awareness session on Thalassemia at its corporate office. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that causes excessive destruction of red blood cells, leading to anemia. In […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, May 9 (Xinhua) — Indian bard Rabindranath Tagore will soon have more readers in China, where his works have been part of middle-school curriculum for decades, than in his home country, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu was quoted as saying by Indian daily DNA India. “We will soon have more Tagore […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA， April 26 (Xinhua) — “Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Monkey with culinary delights presented by Chef Haiwei Wang and Chef Qianjin Ding from Beijing， Chef Mingjing Li from St. Regis Chengdu.” “Sizzle your tastebuds for a week with exotic Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine from the northern， southern and western provinces of […]
Read MoreThe villages along the Vietnamese-Chinese border are a hunting ground for human traffickers. Girls as young as 13 say they are tricked or drugged, then spirited across the porous border by boat, motorbike or car. Young Vietnamese women are valuable commodities in China, where the one-child policy and long-standing preference for sons has heavily skewed […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, April 18 (Xinhua) — Sharmin Reja Chowdhury is a Pharmacy Faculty lecturer in Bangladesh’s leading Dhaka University. She has applied a Chinese government scholarship. “I’ve applied for a PHD program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Because I’m a pharmacist and my research topic is medicinal chemistry and medicinal plant,” Chowdhury told Xinhua […]
Read MoreBy Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, March 23 (Xinhua)– With Bangladesh’s southeastern Bandarban district offering stunning panoramic vistas of beautiful hills and luscious forests, it’s no wonder that the area is one of the country’s key tourist destinations attracting thousands of people, from backpackers to billionaires, each year. An ideal place for trekking, hiking and jungle walks for […]
Read MoreMumbai, Jan. 22 (NsNewsWire) –Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Wednesday spoke out in support of actress Sunny Leone, who was at the receiving end of harsh questions about her professional choices in a TV interview. During the promotional TV interview with CNN IBN anchor Bhupendra Chaubey, Sunny was asked that while she would like to […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — People from all walks of life especially students have been given the chance to delve into the world of Chinese lettering and calligraphy in an exhibition in Dhaka. Hundreds of students, mostly from Bangladesh’s top Dhaka University, visited the exhibition which was the first of its kind in […]
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