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Cyclone Roanu: one month on, thousands in Bangladesh remain in need of urgent help-IFRC

DHAKA, June 20 (NsNewsWire) — One month after Cyclone Roanu struck Bangladesh, leaving at least 20 people dead and hundreds of others injured, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is warning that thousands remain in need of urgent help as the monsoon season hits. In a statement received here on […]

Bangladesh Signs $130 Million World Bank Loan for Economic Zones

DHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh today signed a $130 million additional financing agreement with the World Bank to scale up support for the recently licensed and new economic zones to attract foreign and domestic investment as well as to create more jobs in the manufacturing sector. The additional financing to the […]

Huge arms cache recovered in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka

DHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a channel on Saturday in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua At least 108 pistols, 1,000 bullets, 189 magazines and 10 bayonets from the canal in Uttara of northern part of Dhaka were recovered, a Dhaka Metropolitan Police official said. The […]

Child laborers in Bangladesh: victims of poverty

by Naim-Ul-Karim Nahid Hossain Babu, a boy with 10 years old at best has been working in a tiny workshop named “Japani Metal” at Jinjira in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka for one year. He works 12 hours a day to make metal components, earing 1,600 taka (about 21 U.S. dollars) a […]

Bangladesh making transformational shift to digital procurement Over 55,000 tenders valued US$5.8 billion done in e-GP

DHAKA, June 9 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is making transformational shift to its public procurement environment with exponential growth of electronic government procurement, known as e-GP, covering four key government agencies: Roads and Highways Department, Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, and Bangladesh Water Development Board. These agencies together spend about half the country’s […]

Chinese funded Bangladesh’s largest-ever ICT project connects 20,000 gov’t offices

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, June 9 (Xinhua) — The Bangladeshi government in collaboration with China Machinery Engineering Corporation ( CMEC) has implemented the country’s largest-ever ICT project which brought nearly 20,000 government offices across the country under a nationwide connectivity. Bangladesh’s highest economic policy-making body on July 3, 2013 approved the China-financed 13.33 billion taka project […]

UNHCR: Release Roghingya refugees from detention

The Rohingya refugees who arrived in Malaysia after being stranded in the Bay of Bengal a year ago must be released from detention, says United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR Malaysia representative Richard Towle said the refugees needed to be looked after properly and this could not be done effectively or fairly in […]

World Bank Helps Expand Electronic Public Procurement in Bangladesh

WASHINGTON, June 7 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank today approved $10 million in additional financing to help Bangladesh scale up its electronic government procurement system to meet higher demand for more effective and efficient use of public funds. This additional financing to the Public Procurement Reform Project II will help set up a new state-of-the-art […]

President Xi urges China, U.S. to deepen mutual trust, cooperation

BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Monday urged China and the United States to deepen strategic mutual trust and mutually-beneficial cooperation at a bilateral high-level dialogue. Addressing the joint opening ceremony of the eighth China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) and the seventh China-U.S. High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE), Xi said […]