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DHAKA, May 2, (NsNewsWire) — Clothing exports could create more and better jobs in Bangladesh if the country makes improvements in productivity, product quality and reliability, and by enforcing better safety conditions and other compliance policies, a World Bank report said. A new World Bank report “Stitches to Riches: Apparel Employment, Trade and Economic Development” […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 28 (NsNewsWire) — The top 1% of the global population controls over half of global wealth— while the poorer half of the world controls less than 1% of wealth. The combined wealth of the 200 richest people in the world ($3.18 trillion) is greater than the total wealth of Africa ($2.83 trillion) and […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 26 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP is visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 24-26 April 2016 to attend the Conference in memory of Prince Saud Al-Faisal, former Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia organized by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. On 24 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 26 (NsNewsWire) — His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, ChiefExecutive Officer of King Abdullah International Foundation for Humanitarian Activities, received yesterday at Foundation’s headquarters Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, on the sidelines of his visit to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The meeting attended by Deputy […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) — Two persons including an editor of a magazine were on Monday hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, hours after a prison guard was shot dead in a separate incident, reports Xinhua A police official says at least five machete-wielding assailants forcibly entered the house of Zulhas […]
Read MoreDHAKA,April 24 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement from the EU Delegation to Bangladesh on assassination of Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee: “EU Ambassador to Bangladesh, Pierre Mayaudon, expresses his deep emotion and firm condemnation of the brutal killing of AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, a Professor of the […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, April 21 (NsNewsWire) — The Indian government told its apex court that a total of 330 million people in the country were affected by an ongoing drought, officials said Wednesday, reports Xinhua. The Supreme Court was informed by additional solicitor general P A Narasimha that the affected population lives in 256 districts spread […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 20 (Xinhua) — At least 13 people were killed and 30 others injured when two buses collided head-on on a highway in Bangladesh’s northwestern Rangpur district, police said on Wednesday. “At least 13 passengers were killed and 30 others sustained injuries in the head-on collision between the passenger buses,” Abdul Latif Miah, officer-in-charge […]
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 […]
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