Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping held a welcome ceremony for visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Beijing on Thursday morning. Following the ceremony, the two leaders will hold official talks and witness the signing of a series of cooperation documents. Duterte is on a state visit to China from Tuesday to […]
Read MoreThe United Nations has urged Bangladesh to halt construction of a huge coal-fired power plant near the Sundarbans, warning of a serious threat to the delicate ecosystem of the world’s largest mangrove forest, reports AFP. The UN’s culture and science agency UNESCO said there was a high chance pollution from the plant would “irreversibly damage” […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 18 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh focused on the country’s successes in reducing extreme poverty, pledged $2 billion over the next three years in new funding to help the country become less vulnerable to climate change, said the Washington-based lender in a statement […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 18 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has said he hopes financial support to Bangladesh to end stunting among its children could increase up to $1 billionover the next three years as he marked End Poverty Day in the country to learn lessons from its attempts to become more prosperous and end extreme poverty by 2030. Praising Bangladesh’s record […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has taken note of coordinated attacks on the Border Guard Police posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine State on 10 October 2016 and clashes that followed, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Sunday. “Bangladesh finds these developments in Rakhine State, bordering Bangladesh disturbing and Bangladesh unequivocally condemns the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh on Sunday executed Asadul Islam Arif, a leader of banned militant local outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who was convicted of killing two judges in 2005. “Arif has been hanged to death (Sunday) at 10:30 p.m. (local time),” Jannatul Farhad, official of a jail in the country’s southwestern Khulna […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Education cooperation is a key part of the China-Bangladesh relationship. An increasing number of students from Bangladesh are choosing to study in China, reports CCTV. Sharmin is from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. She just arrived in Shanghai this September, to start pursuing her PhD in the School of Pharmacy at […]
Read MoreDHAKA, October 15, 2016—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim arrives in Dhaka tomorrow to see firsthand the progress Bangladesh has made in transitioning successfully to a lower-middle income country, despite daunting development challenges. During the two-day visit, Kim will join a public event to mark End Poverty Day to celebrate Bangladesh’s achievements in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived here on Friday for a state visit, the first by a Chinese head of state in 30 years to this South Asian nation, reports Xinhua. Bangladesh is the second leg of Xi’s three-nation Asian tour, which already took him to Cambodia. He will also travel […]
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