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India has expelled three journalists of the Chinese official news agency, Xinhua, by refusing to renew their visas to work in the country, a move that could worsen the already strained relations between the two countries, reports http://www.hindustantimes.com. The three journalists have been ordered to leave India by July 31. Journalists Wu Qiang and Lu […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE, July 19 (Xinhua) — The biased award rendered by an arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration has no binding force as the ad hoc tribunal violated international law principles and standards, an expert said here on Monday. Sienho Yee, chief expert at the Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies of Wuhan University, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 12 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of the Remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi At the Media Briefing on the recently held G20 Hangzhou Summit: “Dear Guests, Friends from the Press, Good morning! Today is 26 May, and tomorrow will mark the 100-day countdown of the G20 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 5 (Xinhua) — Confrontation over the South China Sea will take a “disastrous” toll on all the economies in the Asia-Pacific including the U.S. economy, a senior Bangladeshi economist has said. Any armed hostile U.S. activity in the South China Sea will disrupt the main sea route in the region, which will be […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 31 (Xinhua) — A court in Bangladesh capital Dhaka awarded on Tuesday death sentence to six militants, affiliated with the banned outfits Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team, for staging a bank robbery last year in which at least eight people including a banker were killed. The court found nine militants […]
Read MoreBEIJING, May 29 (NsNewsWire) — President Xi Jinping has called for better care for China’s aging population, reports Xinhua Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks on Friday afternoon at a group study attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 28 (NsNewsWire) — The top 1% of the global population controls over half of global wealth— while the poorer half of the world controls less than 1% of wealth. The combined wealth of the 200 richest people in the world ($3.18 trillion) is greater than the total wealth of Africa ($2.83 trillion) and […]
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, 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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