by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — An orientation program was organized here Thursday for students participating in the 2nd Bangladesh-China Youth Camp to be held next month in Chinese province Yunnan. A total of 150 Bangladeshi students will pay a two-week visit to the Chinese province under the China-Bangladesh Youth Exchange Program. This is […]

DHAKA, Aug. 30 (NsNewsWire) — The Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) welcomes the Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar. The report acknowledges the continued and “systematic oppression” of the Rohingya people, the complicity of Myanmar Security forces and other actors in the continued violence that precipitated and directly caused the events of August 2017, […]

BRI envisions great win-win global connectivity Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/28 6:59:30 In the fall of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the formation of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, today known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) while visiting Kazakhstan and Indonesia. This year marks BRI’s fifth anniversary. As reported […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/26 22:33:40 US President Donald Trump on August 24 called off a trip to North Korea this week by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing insufficient progress on the issue of denuclearization. The cancellation came just one day after the trip was announced by Pompeo. On his Twitter account, Trump also said, “Additionally, because […]

  Application deadline for media credentials to attend the landmark climate event set for Sept. 4 SAN FRANCISCO,Aug. 26  (NsNewsWire) — The Global Climate Action Summit has announced that the deadline to apply for media credentials to attend the Summit and report on its announcements and outcomes is Tuesday, Sept. 4. Taking place at the Moscone Center […]

by Guo Jun and Olatunji Saliu MONROVIA, Liberia, Aug. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Liberia is ready to align its “pro-poor agenda,” the national development strategy, with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Liberian President George Weah has said, reports Xinhua. Talking to Xinhua in his office in capital Monrovia, the president said Liberia will seek development […]

DHAKA, Aug. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement that Nobel Peace Laureates issued with a call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen: “The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen, and […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/24 18:23:40 It is obvious the two-day vice-ministerial level trade consultations between China and the US produced no significant progress. In separate statements released after the talks, both sides only stressed they “exchanged views” and “conducted constructive and frank” talks, but neither side mentioned any accomplishment, nor did they say whether or […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/24 6:34:33 Megha Rajagopalan, former China bureau chief for American news platform BuzzFeed, recently applied to have her visa renewed, but was denied by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.  Her story quickly spread among foreign journalists based in the capital and elsewhere, who wrote articles in a show of support for […]