CHONGQING, June 26  (NsNewsWire) — The 9th China International Exhibition of Military and Civil Technologies kicked off Thursday in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, drawing more than 200 delegations from China and abroad, reports Xinhua. Organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Association of Inventions and Chongqing municipal government, the […]

DHAKA, June 26 (NsNewsWire) — In wake of rising road accidents on highways in Bangladesh, the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday gave several directives including banning driving for more than five consecutive hours on highways, reports Xinhua. Hasina gave the directives during a regular cabinet meeting at Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka. After the […]

DHAKA, June 26 (Xinhua) — Voting is underway in Bangladesh’s crucial Gazipur municipal polls that will test the popularity of the grand alliance government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party before national polls slated for later this year. The corporation in Gazipur, 40 km north of the capital Dhaka, has […]

DHAKA, June 26 (NsNewsWire) — “This day acknowledges and honours the many survivors of torture world-wide, including those who have been tortured for their political or other views, those caught in the fight against terrorism or those who have been tortured simply because of their differences. Victims of torture have a right to an effective […]

Mattis should listen rather than criticize during visit to China Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/25 22:13:41 US Defense Secretary James Mattis is scheduled to visit China from June 26 to 28, his first official trip to China, and eighth to Asia, in the 17 months since assuming office. He will also make stops in South Korea […]

DHAKA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has awarded its annual development award of 2018 to BRAC for its continued humanitarian support programme for the Rohingya people who have taken shelter in Bangladesh. OFID, the development platform of the members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has been […]

DHAKA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — UN Under-Secretary-General, Department of Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix called on  Foreign Minister A. H. Mahmood Ali, MP at the State Guest House Padma today. The UN Under-Secretary-General was accompanied by United Nations Military Adviser  Lieutenant General Carlos Humberto Loitey and United Nations Police Adviser  Luís Carrilho. Foreign Minister welcomed the […]

By Zhang Hui Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/24 19:22:49 China has enshrined Xi Jinping’s thought on diplomacy as the supreme guidance to the country’s foreign affairs at a key conference, which also urged the country to take an active part in leading the reform of the global governance system. In an address at the Central Conference […]

MANILA, June 25 (Xinhua) — Philippine Finance Minister Carlos Dominguez is in Mumbai, India for the third annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) that kicked off in Mumbai, India on Monday. This year’s meeting will feature the launching of the Asian Infrastructure Forum (AIF), which aims to […]