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ASEAN and related summits to focus on community building efforts, cooperation with China

VIENTIANE, Sept. 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and related summits are scheduled here in the Lao capital on Tuesday, with the main theme of “Turning Vision into Reality for a Dynamic ASEAN Community.” Community building efforts, ASEAN’s cooperation with dialogue partners, as well as a commemorative summit of the 25th […]

Spotlight: G20 summit to open new path for growth — experts

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — The 11th summit of the G20 major economies is expected to open a new path for growth and more efficient global economic governance, international experts have said. The summit is being held in eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou under the theme of “Toward an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world […]

Bangladesh Foreign Minister begins his four-country Nordic tour from Oslo

DHAKA, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) –Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP reached Oslo, as part of his four-country Nordic visit, and held bilateral official talks with the Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende on 03 September. This is the first bilateral talks between foreign ministers of the two countries after almost a decade. Among others, Bangladesh […]

Bangladesh conveys strong protest against the press release of Pakistan Foreign Office

DHAKA, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) — The Government of Bangladesh has conveyed its strong protest against the press release published in the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan on 3 September 2016 on the execution of Mir Quasem Ali, a convict of crimes against humanity and genocide in Bangladesh. The Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan to […]

G20 and global economic growth

As the G20 summit in Hangzhou draws closer, how the G20 will lead global economic growth becomes a hot topic worldwide at the key phase of global economic recovery. In 2015, global economy continued its weak recovery with an increase of only 3.1 percent, the lowest since 2009. On one hand, developed economies faced structural […]

Bangladesh executes Islamist party leader Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes

DHAKA, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh on Saturday executed another top leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Mir Quasem Ali, for war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, reports Xinhua. “Ali has been hanged to death (Saturday) at 10:30 p.m. (local time),” Proshanto Kumar Banik, superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail on the […]

Six Bangladeshi nationals in Singapore infected with Zika

DHAKA, Sept. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Six Bangladeshi nationals have been tested positive with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Singapore, the High Commission of Bangladesh said on Thursday. “We have been informed yesterday by MOH (the Ministry of Health) that of those tested positive, as of 12 noon on 30 August, 6 are Bangladeshi nationals,” Mahbub […]

Xi demands solid efforts to advance planned reforms

BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to press ahead with the country’s planned reforms in accordance with the established timetable and roadmap. The country should focus more on economic system reforms and improve fundamental mechanisms that support these overhauls, according to a statement released after a meeting […]

Feature: Bangladeshi officials, executives choose to learn Chinese to get ahead

by Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Officials and executives of banking and non-banking financial institutions are joining a new and growing trend of learning Chinese in Bangladesh, a country in which proficiency in English has long been the desirable language goal to achieve success. What the officials maintain is changing because in […]