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China to establish $40 billion Silk Road infrastructure fund

BEIJING (NsNewsWire) – China will contribute $40 billion (25.20 billion pounds) to set up a Silk Road infrastructure fund to boost connectivity across Asia, President Xi Jinping announced on Saturday, the latest Chinese project to spread the largesse of its own economic growth. The fund will be for investing in infrastructure, resources and industrial and […]

China, Bangladesh to work for regional infrastructure development

BEIJING, Nov. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Bangladesh is welcome to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member, and the two countries must enhance cooperation in trade, agriculture, infrastructure development and maritime industry. Xi made the remarks Saturday morning during his meeting with visiting Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid, […]

Bangladesh: MSF responds to an upsurge in malaria cases

Dhaka/Amsterdam – In the last three months the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated nearly 1,700 people affected by malaria in remote areas of southeast Bangladesh. In August, MSF launched an emergency intervention in Bandarban district in the Chittagong Hill Tracts – an area where malaria is endemic – to support the […]

GP announces finalists to represent Bangladesh at the Telenor Youth Summit 2014

DHAKA, Nov. 7 (NsNewsWire) — In order to select two youngsters to represent Bangladesh at the Telenor Youth Summit in Norway, Grameenphone has conducted a contest for all youth between 18 to 25 years of age. The grand finale of the competition was held Friday at The Radisson Blu Water Garden in Dhaka. After the […]

Shakib’s heroics steer Bangladesh to clinch Test series over Zimbabwe

Khulna, Nov. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh have won the second Test by 162 runs to clinch the three-match series 2-0 Shakib Al Hasan performed with bat and ball to hand Bangladesh the comfortable win over Zimbabwe in the second Test on Friday at Abu Naser Statdium in southwestern Khuna city. Shakib who took 10 wickets […]

Bangladesh’s besieged Islamist party fights for life

By Shafiqul Alam, AFP: Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party faces an existential crisis after a series of body blows, including the sentencing to death of its leaders and abandonment by its main secular ally, say analysts. Bangladesh sentences another top Islamist to death Associated Press Jailed Bangladesh ex-Islamist leader dies Associated Press Ghulam Azam: Bangladeshi war […]

Beijing mobilizes police, civilians for APEC security

Beijing police said they will deploy 28,000 police officers each day starting Thursday as the Chinese capital raises security for this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. Another 800,000 civilians will be mobilized to aid in security in the city, said an official with the Beijing Municipal Security Bureau (BMSB). Xinhua

Bangladeshi migrants eke out a living in Rome

Rome, Italy – “Tourists in groups never buy anything.” Ignoring the large group of American tourists sauntering back towards his stall, Faisal pulls out a photo of a boy from his wallet. “This is Sifat, my son. I send him to an English school and he’s at the top of his class,” the 30-year-old migrant […]

China to speed up construction of new Silk Road: Xi

BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — China will accelerate the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and strengthen cooperation with the countries involved, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced. “We should prepare timetables and road maps for the coming years for the ‘One Belt and One Road’ project,” Xi […]