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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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, 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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 18 ( NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement which Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent on Saturday night regarding Chinese FM’s Dhaka visit:”Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is on an official visit to Bangladesh, had a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali today. At […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2017/11/16 23:18:39
Read MoreGeneva, 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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2017/11/11 0:03:39 President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Friday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Da Nang, Vietnam. Meanwhile, it was reported that US President Donald Trump would not meet Putin during the APEC summit. While Russia does not have much say on […]
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