Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/19 21:33:40 Data released from the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday was worse than expected. In particular, total retail sales of consumer goods went up 8.1 percent year-on-year in November. This is considered relatively low, compared to the previous rate. Downward economic pressure is apparently increasing. But some people’s pessimistic views […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/18 21:18:40 China to stick with reform and opening-up, and world should not doubt it Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday delivered a speech at a gathering celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, saying “the reform and opening-up is a great awakening of our Party,” and China will carry it […]

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s two large rival political parties have rolled out their poll manifestos for the general elections slated for Dec. 30 with a set of promises to woo voters. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party in its election manifesto unveiled at a press conference in Dhaka on Tuesday […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/17 20:47:57 Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to attend a conference on Tuesday celebrating the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up. He will also deliver an important speech to further instill the importance of the crucial national policy. Reform and opening-up isn’t a slogan, but China’s actual path in the past […]

DHAKA, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — With due solemnity and rich tributes paid to the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971, Bangladesh Sunday celebrated its 48th victory day, reports Xinhua. On Dec. 16, 1971, the then East Pakistan under the leadership of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won its emancipation and emerged as an independent […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/16 20:48:39 By calling on its allies, the US has gradually formed a collective encirclement and suppression of Chinese high-tech enterprise Huawei. It is a wicked precedent. Almost all US allies maintain active economic and trade ties with China, of which China is the biggest trading partner of many of them. China […]

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — People in Bangladesh usually eat with their right hands at home. Until recently, however, it was almost widely common to see Bangladeshi people using spoons and forks to eat at restaurants. But this is no more a common scenario in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, which has […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/11 21:36:57 Perhaps no corporate executives will applaud the US and Canada for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou. International business disputes are usually handled in a different way. Even in cases involving the unilateral sanctions of the US against Iran, people expected fines. The most serious example of sanctions was the fine […]

France lacks cohesion to advance reform Source:Global Times Published: 2018/12/10 19:08:40 France has had another chaotic weekend. Through a massive deployment of police, big losses were prevented in major cities including Paris and the number of protesters decreased slightly. But that doesn’t mean the yellow vest protests are waning. The anger of people hasn’t fizzled […]