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India lags behind in implementing connectivity projects with ASEAN

NEW DELHI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) — India has extended the deadline for its connectivity projects with Myanmar and Thailand up to 2019, delaying the building of two transport projects linking India’s northeast state Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand through Myanmar, said the Times of India Sunday. This could affect negatively the implementation of Delhi’s […]

Maritime Silk Road to boost regional prosperity: overseas experts

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — Overseas experts have made positive comments on China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative, saying it will promote the development of the countries along the route and boost regional prosperity. Professor James Peck from New York University told reporters that the strategic 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative will exert […]

Maritime Silk Road initiative to reduce friction, catalyze common prosperity

by Xinhua Writer Wang Haiqing Even a not-so-close scrutiny of the maritime Silk Road proposed by China will allow the observer to know that the route passes large areas in the South China Sea. With China laying bear its concepts and intentions of win-win development, common prosperity and cultural inclusiveness in initiating such a route, […]

Bangladesh on the Brink

By The New York Times EDITORIAL BOARD Bangladesh is on the edge of political chaos, and the intransigence of both the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh National Party is to blame. Unless both parties take immediate steps to pull back from entrenched positions, restrain the violent elements of their activist bases and embark […]

Bangladeshi job seekers rush to land jobs in Saudi Arabia

by Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Everybody seems to be in a mad rush to have their names registered with the relevant authorities to try and secure jobs in Saudi Arabia. Unemployed and in a dire need of employment, job seekers braved opposition enforced strikes and non-stop blockades to travel […]

China’s Maritime Silk Road initiative promotes regional prosperity not hegemony

by Xinhua Writer Wang Bowen BEIJING, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — A two-day international seminar on China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative opened Wednesday in southeast China’s Quanzhou. The vision, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, is in no account aimed at China’s hegemony, but solely dedicated to regional development and prosperity,reports Xinhua. […]

leaders from Facebook, Telenor Group, Airtel Africa, Millicom to participate World Mobile Congress keynote sessions

London, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA Wednesday announced the Mobile World Live Keynote sessions for Mobile World Congress 2015. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, will participate in a keynote alongside leaders from Airtel Africa, Millicom and Telenor Group on the evening of Monday, 2 March. The United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler […]

GSMA Announces Nominees for 20th Global Mobile Awards

London, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 2015 Global Mobile Awards, which are this year celebrating 20 years of achievement and innovation across the mobile industry. World-renowned actor, comedian, writer and film producer John Cleese will host the Global Mobile Awards ceremony on Tuesday, 3rd March at the GSMA […]

Political violence appalls Bangladesh, scores dead in arson attacks

DHAKA, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Anxieties spread Bangladesh over the unabated political violence which has left scores of people dead, mostly in arson attacks, and hundreds injured since last month. The fresh wave of violence broke out on Jan. 5 after former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s 20-party opposition alliance had called for countrywide nonstop blockade […]