Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Naim-Ul-Karim Hadi Md. Suruz Sarkar buys made in China devices from markets in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province in South China, and resells them at Bangladesh’s biggest underpass market in Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Square (Gulistan), reports Xinhua. Sarkar’s shop is full of Chinese accessories and devices and, indeed, Bangladesh’s famed underpass market, is […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA， April 26 (Xinhua) — “Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Monkey with culinary delights presented by Chef Haiwei Wang and Chef Qianjin Ding from Beijing， Chef Mingjing Li from St. Regis Chengdu.” “Sizzle your tastebuds for a week with exotic Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine from the northern， southern and western provinces of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 24 (NsNewsWire) — The Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI) project economically empowers poor and vulnerable women from the northwestern region of Bangladesh by facilitating their access to jobs in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector. The project offers training, transitional housing, counseling and facilitates formal employment in garment factories for around 10,800 women from […]
Read More(CNN) An innocent young man is brutally hacked to death in the street by marauding thugs with machetes, and the government’s response is to effectively blame the victim. This is the outrageous and absurd situation in the supposed democratic state of Bangladesh, where a bloody campaign of terror is being waged against secularists and atheists […]
Read MoreThe villages along the Vietnamese-Chinese border are a hunting ground for human traffickers. Girls as young as 13 say they are tricked or drugged, then spirited across the porous border by boat, motorbike or car. Young Vietnamese women are valuable commodities in China, where the one-child policy and long-standing preference for sons has heavily skewed […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, April 3 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday announced a slew of new measures to shore up the nuclear security of China, the country with the fastest growth of nuclear power worldwide, reports Xinhua. Addressing the opening plenary session of the the two-day fourth Nuclear Security Summit here, Xi said China has […]
Read MorePRAGUE, March 30 (NsNewsWire) — China and the Czech Republic on Tuesday forged strategic partnership, ushering bilateral ties into a new era of seeking more common interests and deeper cooperation, reports Xinhua. The upgrade of bilateral relations came as a result of the talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Czech counterpart Milos Zeman […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 29 (Xinhua) — Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is situated on the northeastern bank of the Buriganga river and for centuries the river had remained a hurdle in reaching the capital. Finally this major hurdle was overcome by China building a bridge so that people on both banks could easily cross the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Bangladesh — The math alone is a bewildering exercise for Mahfuz Anam, the editor of Bangladesh’s most popular English-language newspaper. Since February, the number of legal claims against him has climbed to 79 cases: 62 for defamation and 17 for sedition, reports The New York Times. If convicted in all of the cases, Mr. […]
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