US President Donald Trump laid out his administration’s Missile Defense Review during a speech at the Pentagon on Thursday local time, declaring the US will develop a more advanced defense system to counter hypersonic and cruise missile threats from competitors and adversaries. Trump also said the US will do whatever it takes “to ensure that […]

DHAKA, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is set to rollout 5G services next year, the country’s telecom regulator said Thursday, reports Xinhua. Steps are underway to launch the latest generation of cellular mobile communications from the next year, said Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Commissioner Aminul Hassan during a meeting with the members of TRNB […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/14 23:56:45 Canadian drug smuggler Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was sentenced to death on Monday by the Intermediate People’s Court of Dalian, Liaoning Province. This is the latest ruling after the Liaoning Provincial High People’s Court sent back the case and the Intermediate People’s Court of Dalian opened a public retrial. Canadian Prime […]

DHAKA, Jan. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister of Estonia. Jüri Ratas has congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her re-election as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. In his message, the Estonian Prime Minister also expressed conviction that the friendly relations between Bangladesh and Estonia, based on mutual understanding and respect, would continue to develop successfully in the years […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/13 20:33:39 After an employee of Huawei was arrested on alleged spying charges, Joachim Brudzinski, Poland’s internal affairs minister, called for the European Union and NATO to work on a joint position over whether to exclude Huawei from their markets. When a spokesman for Poland’s secret services chief tweeted the arrest on […]

DHAKA, Jan. 13 (NsNewsWire) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today signed agreements for $200 million in loans to improve the rural road network in Bangladesh. Monowar Ahmed, Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Manmohan Parkash, Country Director, ADB, signed the agreements on behalf of Bangladesh and ADB, respectively, at […]

DHAKA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Workers in Bangladesh staged demonstrations and ransacked nearly a dozen factories in protests over disparity in their new wage structure. In Tongi, one of the key apparel industrial hubs on the outskirts of capital Dhaka, at least nine factories were reportedly vandalized by the unruly workers. Equipped with sticks, workers […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/11 18:48:40 Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, left Beijing for Pyongyang on Wednesday after a three-day visit, his fourth to China since March last year. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment […]