Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/15 21:52:07 With the rapid slump of the Turkish lira, many people think that Turkey’s modernization has been hit hard and the country may fall into the middle-income trap and find it hard to get out of it. What’s happening in the Turkish economy is not alone among emerging markets. Similar currency […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/14 22:38:41 US President Donald Trump signed the $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 on Monday. It authorizes another 2.3 percent military expenditure rise following the 13 percent increase of 2018, becoming the most significant investment in the US military “in modern history,” as Trump said. People believe […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/13 22:23:39 Western media are hyping the case of a German student told to leave China. According to reports, 24-year-old David Missal was pursuing a master’s degree in journalism and communication at Tsinghua University. For his journalism class, he reported on radical lawyers and families under investigation three years ago according to […]

DHAKA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka sentenced five men to death on Monday for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal, led by its Chairman Justice Shahinur Islam, found the suspects Md Esahaque Shikder, Abdul Gani, Md Awal, Md A Sattar […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/12 21:43:39 Politicians and media outlets of the US and other Western countries have been lashing out intensively at China’s governance of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region recently, claiming massive human rights violations in Xinjiang and comparing the region to an open-air prison. Their purpose is to stir trouble for Xinjiang and destroy […]

By Shan Renping Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/11 7:06:49 The local authorities’ plan to demolish the Weizhou Grand Mosque in Tongxin county, Wuzhong city, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has become a controversy, receiving a great deal of attention in China. The dispute started in 2015. The Weizhou Grand Mosque applied for renovations in 2015, […]

KATHMANDU, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — H. E. Mr. Amjad Hussain B. Sial, Secretary General of SAARC, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the Asian Youth Assembly-2018 this morning. The Assembly was devoted to the theme, “Revitalizing Asian Youth Integration for Climate Change in the era of SDGs.” Co-organized by the Global Youth Parliament and the Youth […]

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Commonwealth Secretary General the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC is visiting Bangladesh with a four members delegation on a three-day working tour from 08 August 2018. This is a part of her first official visit to the three Asian Commonwealth member states in Asia Sri Lanka, Brunei and Bangladesh. She […]

  DHAKA, Aug. 9 (NsNewsWire) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today signed agreements for $25.44 million in grant to spur off-grid solar photovoltaic (SPV) pumping for agricultural irrigation.   The grant will further support activities for promoting SPV water pumping systems under the ADB-financed Power System Efficiency Improvement Project. […]