Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Amid condemnation around the world and UN calling the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, Myanmar’s UN ambassador lied to UN saying that there is no “ethnic cleansing” or genocide taking place against Muslims, reports AFP. The envoy objected “in the strongest terms” to countries that used those words to […]
Read MoreReuters, Yangon Myanmar government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
Read MoreDHAKA, Bangladesh, 24 September 2017: The first consignment of UNICEF emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of refugee Rohingya children and their families has arrived in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. The cargo plane arrived from Copenhagen with 100 tons of supplies comprising water purifying tablets, family hygiene kits, sanitary materials, plastic tarpaulins, recreational kits […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Sept. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes brought its Bangladesh round to a successful close during Seedstars Dhaka. The event took place this Saturday at GP House, and eight selected startups were invited to present their ideas in front of the local jury […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Sept. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Samsung Electronics Bangladesh handed over a state of the art laboratory under its “ARISE” program to the Dhaka Mohila Polytechnic Institute in a ceremony at its own premises in Agargaon. The ARISE (Advanced Repair and Industrial Skill Enhancement) is a six month long training program for the final year students, […]
Read MoreNAY PYI TAW, Sept. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed that the Myanmar government was taking effective measures to curb the violence in northern Rakhine state, while ensuring that innocent civilians were not harmed, reports Xinhua. Aung San Suu Kyi made the remarks Wednesday as she replied to questions […]
Read MoreKATHMANDU, Sept. 24 (NsNewsWire) — China’s Belt and Road Initiative can contribute to realizing the dream of the Asian Century through enhancing regional economic integration, Nepali experts said here on Saturday, reports Xinhua. Speaking at a seminar entitled “Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Development in South Asia,” Nepalese Former Ambassador to China Tanka Karki was […]
Read MoreBERLIN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected a requirement of the German news channel ARD youth radio program “Kanzlercheck” (chancellor check) to answer questions with a simple yes or no. The answer always depended on the question, the incumbent chancellor said on Thursday during the livestream, stressing that she would “speak […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — China’s State Council has released a plan for the country’s second national census on pollution sources, with the results to be published in 2019. Seven years after the results of the first national pollution census, the government launched a second survey to investigate the scale, structure and distribution of pollution […]
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