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Bangladesh to get $1.11 billion loan from Japan for major projects

DHAKA, Dec. 14 (NsNewsWire) – Bangladesh will receive $1.11 billion in loans from Japan for infrastructure, investment and health projects, the Japanese embassy in Dhaka said on Sunday, announcing its largest loan package to Bangladesh since 1974, reports reuters. The projects include a foreign direct investment promotion project, the strengthening of the Dhaka-Chittagong main power […]

Bangladeshi PM inaugurates construction of mega Padma Bridge

By Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the main works of the country’s biggest Padma Bridge project by unveiling its foundation plaque, reports Xinhua. The ceremony was held along the bank of river Padma in Munshganj on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on Saturday […]

Two advanced Chinese corvette class warships for Bangladesh

Beijing, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China has handed over two most advanced corvette class warships with ability to sail at a maximum speed of 25.5 knots on the high seas besides versatile combat capacity and excellent manoeuvrability to the Bangladesh Navy, reports Xinhua China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) delivered the two vessels to the Bangladesh […]

Bangladesh’s poor benefiting from domestically produced medication

DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — It took less than half a U.S. dollar for Rahman Miah to buy two bottles of syrup for his son who had been coughing for several days.For rickshaw puller Miah, it was not at all burdensome to expend 40 taka from his daily income which is around six U.S. dollars,reports […]

Bangladesh’s July-November export rises 6.71 pct

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s export earning in the first five months of the current 2015-16 fiscal year (July 2015-June 2016) grew 6.71 percent year-on-year to nearly 13 billion U.S. dollars, reports Xinhua. “Export performance for July -November was 12,879.83 million U. S. dollars, 6.71 percent higher than that in the same period a […]

Obama vows to defeat ‘new phase’ of terrorist threat

Washington, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no US policy shift to confront what he called a “new phase” in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California, reports Reuters. In a rare Oval […]

Feature: Bangladesh in climate-induced migration mess

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Armed with shovels and baskets, they stand around on the sidewalk every morning waiting to be hired, reports Xinhua. The dozen or so a group of such day-laborers are a common daily sight on the sidewalks of many Dhaka streets. Most of them are worn-out looking men and […]

New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles

By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) – The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead. The newspaper’s editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married […]

Russia unveils sanctions list against Turkey

MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Russia’s government on Tuesday approved a resolution listing detailed sanctions against Turkey in response to last week’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, reports Xinhua. The resolution, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, bans from Jan. 1 imports of foodstuffs, including poultry meat, a variety of fresh, […]