Announcement ahead of UN Secretary-General, World Bank Group President visit WASHINGTON, June 29 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank today announced close to half-a-billion dollars in grant-based support to help Bangladesh address the needs of Rohingya refugees in areas such as health, education, water and sanitation, disaster risk management, and social protection. Reflecting the increasingly protracted nature […]

JERUSALEM, June 28 (Xinhua) — Israel’s army said on Thursday that the first training program for female tank commanders had been completed. Four female soldiers finished the program, the army said in a statement, adding that they will attend Thursday the concluding ceremony for the Armored Corps Tank Commander’s Course. The four underwent 16 weeks […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/27 23:15:01 Treatment of veterans has become a hot topic in China recently. Some retired soldiers complain about improper treatment and ineffective implementation of policies. Veterans from earlier eras are dissatisfied with their pensions, which lag far behind what today’s soldiers receive when they leave the army. China established the Ministry of […]

DHAKA, June 27 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s ruling party candidate has won the Gazipur municipal polls, according to Raquib Uddin Mondal, a returning officer, on Wednesday. Mondal said that “Awami League (AL) party’s candidate Jahangir Alam beat his nearest BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party)’s candidate Hasan Uddin Sarker by a margin of 202,399 votes.” In the Gazipur […]

by Pankaj Yadav KARIMNAGAR, India, June 27 (Xinhua) — Claimed to be the world’s biggest lift irrigation system, the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) is on the verge of completion in India’s southern state of Telangana to irrigate a whopping 3.7 million acres of agriculture land. The state is prone to farmers’ suicides for lack […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/26 22:03:41 Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen called on the international community to “constrain China” and “minimize the expansion of their [China’s] hegemonic influence” in an interview with AFP on Monday. “There are times when we feel frustrated, but the Taiwanese people do not have the option of giving up,” Tsai told the […]

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 […]