DHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — A moderate earthquake in Ambassa near Tripura in northeastern India, measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, shooked parts of Bangladesh including capital Dhaka. Mominul Islam, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Xinhua that the earthquake, with its epicenter some 176 km to the east of Dhaka, struck […]

DHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — More than four million students of Bangladesh’s primary and secondary schools have got new textbooks on the first day of 2017 as customary to every year, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated textbooks distribution program among students at a school in Dhaka Sunday. The Bangladeshi government every […]

    DHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — This afternoon, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh Myo Myint Than was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, Secretary (Bilateral & Consular). During the meeting, Ahsan expressed deep concern at the continued influx of Muslims from the Rakhine State of Myanmar into Bangladesh. […]

by Xinhua writers Tian dongdong, Ma Mengli BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — One day after China normalized its relations with Norway, Sao Tome and Principe, an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, decided on Tuesday (local time) to break its so-called “diplomatic ties” with Taiwan, sending a strong signal to the world that the […]