DHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — On Thursday 25 April 2019, the Australian High Commission in Dhaka commemorated the 104th anniversary of ANZAC Day, remembering Australian and New Zealand servicemen and women who died in wars and conflicts, including 30 buried in Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries in Bangladesh. HE Ms Julia Niblett, the High Commissioner […]

Dhaka, April 25 (NsNewsWire) —Bangladesh is going to be a middle-income country soon, but gender inequality persists in societies even in policies, which hinders the progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 according to speakers in a policy dialogue titled “Women’s Economic Empowerment in Bangladesh: Issues and Challenges at local level” held at […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/24 23:02:35 Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Court pronounced judgments on the nine activists in the Occupy Central Movement. Tai Yiu-ting, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming received the longest jail terms of 16 months, but Chu could have his sentence suspended for two years. The verdict may be a judicial summary of the […]

UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (Xinhua) — Heads of three UN agencies helping nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh will go to Dhaka this week to meet senior officials, then visit crowded Cox’s Bazar to meet refugees, a UN spokesman said on Monday. In the Bangladeshi capital, they will hold talks with senior […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/23 17:13:40 The White House issued a statement Monday saying that the US will not extend the exemption period for countries buying oil from Iran and the early May deadline remains unchanged. According to US media, this means that the US will impose sanctions on countries that continue to purchase oil from […]

DHAKA, April 23 (NsNewsWire) — Experts gathered in Dhaka today for the start of a 2-day conference co-organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to discuss community-based clean energy in Bangladesh, with a focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). The program will look at specific smart grid technologies and systems, such as distributed […]

KATHMANDU , April 22 (NsNewsWire) — “Intra-regional economic integration is the backbone of the SAARC process. As envisaged by our Leaders at the Eighteenth SAARC Summit, our ultimate goal is to achieve South Asian Economic Union in a phased and planned manner through a Free Trade Area, a Customs Union, a Common Market, and a Common Economic and […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/20 4:44:19 At a US congressional hearing, Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said that foreign teachers and researchers at US universities would lose their jobs if suspected of accepting foreign government funding. Media reports indicated the word “foreign” was mainly about China. It was also announced that […]

KATHMANDU, April 17 (NsNewsWire) — Amjad Hussain B. Sial, Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), addressed the Inaugural Session of the “Regional Consultation on Fish Culture in Cages and Pens in Reservoirs, Lakes, Rivers and Marine Waters for Aquaculture Diversification in South Asia” in Pokhara, Nepal this (Wednesday) morning. The […]