Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/8 20:38:39 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un started a 4-day visit to China on Monday. This is his fourth China visit since March 2018. Monday is also Kim’s birthday. The detail shows the current closeness in the relationship between the two countries and their top leaders. An important background for Kim’s visit […]

DHAKA, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — The Mercer’s 2018 Bangladesh Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) was conducted across industries, which had a participation of 90+ organisations from industries like consumer goods, life sciences, chemical manufacturing, hi-tech sector, retail and wholesale & banking/financial services. Furthermore, while forecasts vary widely across specific industries, organisations have noticed a spike in […]

By Yu Jincui Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/3 19:13:40 The coalition led by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League clinched a landslide victory with an over two-thirds majority in the nation’s 11th parliamentary elections on Sunday. The massive victory gave Hasina a third straight term but Bangladesh’s opposition rejected what it called “farcical” results and […]

DHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — The newly elected members of Bangladesh’s parliament have taken the oath of office amid an opposition boycott following the Dec. 30 parliamentary election. Bangladesh’s Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury swore in the lawmakers including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a ceremony in capital Dhaka on Thursday. The MPs from ex-Prime […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/1 15:33:39 The year of 2019 finally arrives. It will be a fair year for countries which are willing and able to collectively address challenges. Various predictions of worldwide uncertainty in 2019 have been made by several institutions, from US domestic affairs, the Indian general election, a possible geopolitical crisis, to global […]

DHAKA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League, which clinched a landslide victory in Sunday’s violence-hit general election, will form its new cabinet before Jan. 10, the party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader said Tuesday. Quader, also the country’s road transport and bridges minister, told journalists that preparations were underway […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/30 7:10:0 Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on Saturday held a telephone conversation. The two leaders attach great importance to the development of bilateral relations, and said that the working teams of the two countries are actively promoting the implementation of the consensus reached during their meeting in […]

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — Hours after parliament polls closed Sunday, leaving at least 17 people dead, ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led major opposition alliance demanded reelection under a non-partisan interim government, reports Xinhua. Talking to journalists at a press conference, Jatiya Oikya Front (National Unity Front) leader Kamal Hossain rejected the […]

Dhaka, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement today on 27 December at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) for the implementation of a six-year project titled, ‘Enhancing adaptive capacities of coastal communities, especially women, to cope with climate change induced salinity,’ financed by the […]