DHAKA, March 4 (Xinhua) — A last-ditch battle has been mounted to save Bangladeshi ruling party leader Obaidul Quader, also the country’s road transport and bridges minister. Quader was flown on Monday in a special air ambulance to Singapore where will be taken to the Mount Elizabeth hospital, a top-notch critical care medical center. Quader, […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/3 20:32:08 The University of Minnesota recently suspended its exchanges with China’s Huawei Technologies. In a memorandum sent to the university deans, Vice President for Research Chris Cramer said “we consider it prudent to suspend our interactions with Huawei” given the “extraordinary level of concern” raised by federal indictments. According to the […]

WASHINGTON, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — he World Bank has approved a $100 million credit for improving fiscal forecasting, and public budget preparation and execution. The Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) Program to Enable Service Delivery program will support the government’s PFM Action Plan 2016-2021 and will help improve fiscal discipline, financial reporting and greater transparency […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/1 20:28: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho held a press conference on early Friday morning, refuting US President Donald Trump’s claim that Pyongyang had demanded complete sanctions relief after the summit in Hanoi between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which failed to reach a deal. Ri said North Korea […]

ISLAMABAD, March 2 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement that the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued Saturday: “The 46th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers is taking place in Abu Dhabi on 1-2 March 2019. India has been invited to the inaugural plenary. India is a […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/1 20:28:54 North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho held a press conference on early Friday morning, refuting US President Donald Trump’s claim that Pyongyang had demanded complete sanctions relief after the summit in Hanoi between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which failed to reach a deal. Ri said North Korea asked […]

With his reckless “pre-emptive” airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inadvertently undone what previous Indian governments almost miraculously, succeeded in doing for decades. Since 1947 the Indian Government has bristled at any suggestion that the conflict in Kashmir could be resolved by international arbitration, insisting that it is an “internal matter.” To read the full opinion piece of […]

DHAKA, March 1 (Xinhua) — A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane on a domestic flight made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dhaka on Friday with no one hurt, the airlines’ spokesman said. Mesbah Uddin, domestic flights manager of the national flag carrier, told Xinhua that the Dash-8 plane, carrying 61 passengers and four […]

DHAKA, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — A women- and girls-friendly community toilet in Dhaka for Dholpur Telugu Community has been inaugurated recently. Carin Jämtin, Director-General of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), inaugurated the toilet. The community toilets are part of the WASH4UrbanPoor project funded by Embassy of Sweden, which aims to improve human well-being and […]