Bangladesh wants amicable ties with all neighbors, says PM

DHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday that her country needed to develop amicable ties with all its neighbors, reports Xinhua. She made the remarks at the inaugural session of a conference of Bangladeshi envoys based in foreign countries. Being a peace-loving country, Hasina said: “We have to solve […]

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Urgent measures to improve hygiene practices underway inside Rohingya refugee camps

GENEVA, Nov. 22 (NsNewsWire)  —  UNICEF is deeply concerned by reports suggesting high levels of bacterial contamination (E.coli) from water drawn from wells inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh. The latest figures from the World Health Organization suggest that 62 per cent of water available to households is contaminated. We […]

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Bangladeshi PM meets Chinese FM on pragmatic cooperation, Rohingya issue

DHAKA, Nov. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on Saturday, with both sides emphasizing their willingness to further deepen pragmatic cooperation, reports Xinhua. Hasina congratulated the successful holding of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and thanked the Chinese side for […]

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China approves projects worth 10 bln USD in October

BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — China’s top economic planner approved 16 fixed-asset investment projects with total investment reaching 66.6 billion yuan (about 10 billion U.S. dollars) in October.x   The projects were mainly in the energy, transportation and high tech industries, according to Meng Wei, spokesperson with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). They included […]

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IPU condemns court decision to ban opposition party in Cambodia  

 Geneva, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) strongly condemns the ruling by Cambodia’s Supreme Court to dissolve the country’s main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), and to ban 118 senior CNRP members from political life for five years, including 53 out of the 66 CNRP parliamentarians.  The decision is based on recent amendments to […]

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Bangladeshi ex-PM demands army deployment during national polls

DHAKA, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has demanded army deployment in the country’s next general polls slated for early 2019, reports Xinhua. Khaleda, also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), made the demand while addressing a grand rally in capital Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan (garden) Sunday, her first public address in one […]

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Bangladeshi chief justice facing 11 charges resigns

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha who faces 11 charges including graft and money laundering has resigned from his office, reports Xinhua. Joynal Abedin, press secretary to the Bangladeshi president, told journalists that Justice Sinha who is now abroad sent his resignation letter to Bangabhaban, the official residence of Bangladeshi […]

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