Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
LONDON, June 22 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a direct appeal to the British public Tuesday urging them to vote Remain in the upcoming historic referendum on EU membership, reports Xinhua. Speaking outside the No. 10 official residence, the somberly-addressed Cameron urged his own generation not to condemn their children and grandchildren to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 20 (NsNewsWire) — One month after Cyclone Roanu struck Bangladesh, leaving at least 20 people dead and hundreds of others injured, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is warning that thousands remain in need of urgent help as the monsoon season hits. In a statement received here on […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a channel on Saturday in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua At least 108 pistols, 1,000 bullets, 189 magazines and 10 bayonets from the canal in Uttara of northern part of Dhaka were recovered, a Dhaka Metropolitan Police official said. The […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim Nahid Hossain Babu, a boy with 10 years old at best has been working in a tiny workshop named “Japani Metal” at Jinjira in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka for one year. He works 12 hours a day to make metal components, earing 1,600 taka (about 21 U.S. dollars) a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 12 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of the Remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi At the Media Briefing on the recently held G20 Hangzhou Summit: “Dear Guests, Friends from the Press, Good morning! Today is 26 May, and tomorrow will mark the 100-day countdown of the G20 […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, June 9 (Xinhua) — The Bangladeshi government in collaboration with China Machinery Engineering Corporation ( CMEC) has implemented the country’s largest-ever ICT project which brought nearly 20,000 government offices across the country under a nationwide connectivity. Bangladesh’s highest economic policy-making body on July 3, 2013 approved the China-financed 13.33 billion taka project […]
Read MoreThe Rohingya refugees who arrived in Malaysia after being stranded in the Bay of Bengal a year ago must be released from detention, says United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR Malaysia representative Richard Towle said the refugees needed to be looked after properly and this could not be done effectively or fairly in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 7 (Xinhua) — Second Confucius Institute in Bangladesh will begin its activities early next year at the country’s leading University of Dhaka here. Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka AAMS Arefin Siddique and Cultural Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy to Bangladesh Chen Shuang Monday cut the ribbon to inaugurate the construction of […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Monday urged China and the United States to deepen strategic mutual trust and mutually-beneficial cooperation at a bilateral high-level dialogue. Addressing the joint opening ceremony of the eighth China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) and the seventh China-U.S. High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE), Xi said […]
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