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Search for missing AirAsia plane expands with more aircraft, ships joining

JAKARTA/PANGKALPINANG, Indonesia, Dec. 30 (NsNewsWire) — More countries were sending planes and ships on Tuesday to join an expanding search operation in the Java Sea off Indonesia where an AirAsia plane disappeared as the sea and aerial hunt entered its third day. Around 30 ships, 15 fixed-wing aircraft and seven helicopters from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore […]

Beijing construction site accident kills 10, injures 4

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Beijing has set up a special team to investigate a construction site accident which killed ten workers and injured another four on Monday morning, local authorities said. The incident occurred at a construction site at Tsinghua High School campus’ south side at around 8:20 a.m, reports Xinhua. The findings of […]

Train-covered van collision leaves 6 dead in Bangladesh capital

DHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — At least 3 people were killed and over a dozen others injured after a train derailed after being hit by a covered van near Kamalapur railway station area in Dhaka. Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Government Railway Police (GRP) at Kamalapur, told journalists that collision left two persons dead on the […]

Search for missing AirAsia Flight 8501 expands off Indonesian coast

Jakarta, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Naval ships, small boats, helicopters and surveillance aircraft from four nations expanded the search Monday for a missing AirAsia jetliner in the waters off of Indonesia. Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, which was leading the effort, said investigators believed the plane carrying 162 mostly […]

China proposes FTA with Bangladesh, Dhaka for Ctg-Kunming road

DHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — China has responded positively to Bangladesh’s proposal for the long-cherished road connectivity from Chittagong to Kunming via Cox’s Bazar and Myanmar. Emerging from the bilateral talks, Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told journalists “We’ve proposed establishing rail and road connectivity between Chittagong and Kunming. This is the first time […]

Chinese FM Yi holds bilateral talks with Bangladesh

DHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who arrived in Dhaka on Saturday night, on Sunday held talks with his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali and discussed ways to further bolster cooperation in key areas including trade and investment. Both Wang and Ali were assisted by their delegations which comprised of senior […]

AirAsia jet with 162 on board goes missing on way to Singapore

Delhi, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Before communication was lost with AirAsia Flight 8501, the aircraft requested to deviate from the planned flight route due to weather, the airline said in a statement. The plane was still under Indonesian air traffic control as it headed toward Singapore, reports CNN. Missing AirAsia Flight 8501 is carrying 162 […]

4-year-old Bangladesh boy found dead nearly after 24 hours

DHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — An about four-year-old boy trapped in a well ‘several hundred feet deep’ in capital Dhaka were pulled on Saturday evening. Doctors later declared him dead. The boy fell into a some 400-500-foot deep abandoned well of a water pump at around 3:00 p .m. local time Friday when he along […]

India, Bangladesh: Air Quality May Improve as Tropics Threaten

DHAKA, Dec. 26 (NsNewsWire) — There are signs of the persistent dense fog and poor air quality finally improving across India and Bangladesh next week, when a tropical threat looms. The end to the stagnant air pattern from Pakistan to northern India to Bangladesh will not come through this weekend. With weather disturbances passing by […]