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World Bank Increases Support for Health Sector in Bangladesh

Dhaka, June 26 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank approved $150 million in additional financing to help strengthen Bangladesh’s health systems and improve health services, particularly for the poor. This additional financing to the Health Sector Development Program will continue support to implement the government’s Health Sector-wide Program. The support will help the government address health […]

Bangladesh reduces traveler stress with advance ticket sales ahead of Eid festival

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, June 23 (Xinhua) — Long queues usually herald the start of Eid-related tickets sales to holiday makers in Bangladesh. Though large numbers of people were seen at the counters of Central Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka on Wednesday morning to secure their ride, as with other occasions, there were not massive crowds, […]

British PM makes last minute plea, calling EU decision “irreversible”

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 […]

Cyclone Roanu: one month on, thousands in Bangladesh remain in need of urgent help-IFRC

DHAKA, 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 […]

Huge arms cache recovered in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka

DHAKA, 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 […]

Child laborers in Bangladesh: victims of poverty

by 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 […]

Chinese FM’s Remarks At the Media Briefing on G20 Hangzhou Summit

DHAKA, 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 […]

Chinese funded Bangladesh’s largest-ever ICT project connects 20,000 gov’t offices

by 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 […]

UNHCR: Release Roghingya refugees from detention

The 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 […]