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Unabated Climate Change Would Reverse the Hard-Earned Development Gains in Asia — New Report

DHAKA, July 15 (Xinhua) — Unabated climate change would bring devastating consequences to countries in Asia and the Pacific, which could severely affect their future growth, reverse current development gains, and degrade quality of life, according to a report produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). […]

Sri Lankan president arrives in Dhaka on three-day visit to Bangladesh

DHAKA, July 13 (NsNewsWire) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in Dhaka on a three-day state visit to Bangladesh on Thursday. A Sri Lankan Airlines flight carrying President Sirisena and his 73-member entourage comprising ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and business community members landed at Shahjalal Airport at 11:25am. President Abdul Hamid welcomed Sri […]

Bangladesh export grows at snail’s pace in 2016-17 fiscal year

DHAKA, July 12 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh exports grew at a snail’s pace in the just concluded 2016-17 (July 2016-June 2017) fiscal year, showing few signs of speeding up in the new financial year, reports Xinhua. Exports inched up 1.69 percent to nearly 35 billion U.S. dollars in the 2016-17 fiscal year, an official from Export […]

5 militants killed in N. Afghan airstrike

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, July 11 (Xinhua) — Five Taliban militants were killed after warplanes of NATO-led coalition forces struck a Taliban position in Afghan northern province of Kunduz overnight, a local official said on Tuesday. “The air strike took place in Janat Bagh locality of Khan Abad district, east of provincial capital Kunduz city. The strike […]

AIIB’s impressive performance indicates China’s commitment to shared prosperity among nations: Bangladeshi experts

by Xinhua writers Naim-Ul-Karm, Liu Chuntao The impressive performance of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has signaled China’s broader commitment to shared prosperity among nations, Bangladeshi officials and experts have said. They said Moody’s highest rating of the bank not merely confirmed its “world class” governance structure, independent Internal Audit Office and Ethics Office, […]

Bangladesh says 900,000 people affected by floods

DHAKA, July 6 (NsNewsWire) — Devastating flooding in parts of Bangladesh has affected some 900,000 people and displaced thousands of families, said the country’s Disaster Management and Relief Ministry Secretary Shah Kamal, reports Xinhua. According to the senior government official, authorities have already rushed teams of disaster response force to carry out rescue work, distribute […]

China to build world’s most challenging railway

HENGDU, July 5 (Xinhua) — Breathtaking scenery and breathtaking dangers — both will face Chinese engineers as they embark on building the world’s most difficult railway. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway into southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The line will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, […]

China’s Red Cross Society donates 100,000 USD to assist flood victims in Bangladesh

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, July 4 (Xinhua) — The Red Cross Society of China has made a cash donation to help Bangladesh’s communities affected by the flooding that has stranded hundreds of thousands of people. The Chinese embassy in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday handed over a cheque of 100,000 U.S. dollars on behalf of the Red […]

Factory boiler explosion leaves 9 dead in Bangladesh

DHAKA, July 4 (NsNewsWire) — At least nine people were killed and 35 others injured when a boiler of a garment factory at Gazipur on the outskirts of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, went off on Monday night, officials said, reports Xinhua. Gazipur Additional Superintendent of Police Russell Sheikh told Xinhua that “eight bodies have been […]