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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 […]

Bangladesh opposition points finger at ruling party men for bomb attacks

DHAKA, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh opposition has pointed finger at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party men for carrying out petrol bomb attacks. Ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP) Spokesman Salahuddin Ahmed in a statement on Thursday said this is nothing but a trick of AL to […]

Three killed, dozens injured in train-bus collision in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — At least three people were killed and dozens of others injured on Thursday morning when a train struck a bus in Bangladesh’s seaport city Chittagong, a police officer. The officer of Chittagong Metropolitan Police who did not like to be named said the collision occurred at about 11:20 a.m. local […]

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. […]

Saudi Arabia signs deal with Bangladesh to hire 120,000 workers a year

DHAKA, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Just about a week after lifting a seven-year employment ban, Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding with Bangladesh to hire some 120,000 workers in a year from Bangladesh. The deal was struck Tuesday night after the visiting 19-member Saudi team, led by Ahmad Bin Fahad Al Fuhaid, deputy minister […]

Xi stresses implementing central economic policies

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a key economic meeting on Tuesday, calling for central policies in this field to be carried out to ensure positive effects. The policies discussed at the ninth meeting of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs included urbanization, innovation, development of Asian […]

32, including 10 children, die allegedly from treatment errors in northeastern Bangladesh

Sylhet, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — At least 32 people including 10 children have died died in a northeastern Bangladesh hospital . According to the sources, 32 people died within 24 hours till 7:00 a.m. (local time) Tuesday at state-managed MAG Osmani Medical College Hospita in Sylhet. A three-member probe body, led by Prof Md Ismail […]

Bangladesh’s Grameenphone revenue reaches 1.32 bln USD in 2014

DHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has reported revenue of 102.7 billion taka (about 1.32 billion U.S. dollars) for 2014, up 6.3 percent from last year. The company, which is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh, Monday in a press briefing in Dhaka said its service revenue […]

News analysis: Europe poised to fight terrorism, solutions remain elusive

MUNICH, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Faced with increasing terror threats, European countries have yet to come up with a strategy to fight the war on terror, which they can not afford to lose. In an address made at the the 51st Munich Security Conference, which concluded on Sunday, U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry […]