by William M. Reilly UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (Xinhua) — More than 16,000 babies have been born in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh in the nine-months since violence forced them to flee their homes in Myanmar, a UN spokesman said on Thursday. “More than 60 Rohingya babies are born in Bangladesh refugee camps every day,” said Deputy UN spokesman […]

Al Jazeera spoke to Victoria Coates, special assistant to US President Donald Trump, on the future of Israel. Coates says it’s up to Israel and Palestine to decide the terms of any peace deal. She added that the US is committed to a solution that supports both Palestinians and Israelis, and will not impose anything […]

DHAKA, May 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s apex court has upheld bail for ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a graft case in which the country’s largest opposition party chief is currently serving a five-year jail term, reports Xinhua. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Wednesday passed the […]

By Matthew Burgess and Alyssa McDonald me of Asia’s biggest infrastructure investors are seeing plenty of opportunities in India. In China’s mammoth Belt-and-Road initiative, however, not so much, Bloomberg.  India is a key market for Macquarie Group thanks to strong economic growth and state asset sales, said Frank Kwok, co-head of Asia Pacific at Macquarie […]

In his column in Australian Financial Review, former Australian Ambassador to China Geoff Raby slammed Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for not having visited China in more than two years while angering Beijing with “the most strident public comments on the South China Sea” and an “utterly bizarre speech” questioning Beijing’s regional leadership. “China relations […]

BEIJING, May 16 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday, hoping that the forum would provide new methods for solving development issues and improving economic governance, reports Xinhua. As the host country, China will support the work of the Board of Directors […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Xinhua) — Facebook on Tuesday unveiled for the first time a transparency report that shows an increasing number of posts identified as containing graphic violence in the first of quarter of 2018. “Of every 10,000 content views, an estimate of 22 to 27 contained graphic violence, compared to an estimate of […]

DHAKA, May 15 (NsNewsWire) — In a visit to Bhubaneswar, as a State Guest of State Government of Orissa, Nobel Laureate Profrssor Muhamnad Yunus addressed the ministers and top civil servants of the Orissa government organized by the government sponsored  by the Orissa Knowledge Hub  at the State government Secretariat in Bhubaneswar. At the end of […]

by Sheuli Akter DHAKA, May 15 (NsNewsWire) — The 57-nation OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) has strongly condemned condemned the U.S. decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A joint statement, which Bangladesh issued here Monday evening as a chair of the 45th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the  OIC, said […]