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Disease outbreaks, funding shortages compound suffering of South Asia flood survivors: IFRC

By Sheuli Akter DHAKA, Sept. 5 (NsNewsWire) — Hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan are struggling to survive in the aftermath of the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. Flood waters are receding in many areas but there are already shortages of critical supplies, with personal food […]

UNICEF scaling up its emergency response in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) — UNICEF with partners are scaling up the emergency response in the flood-affected northern and central parts of Bangladesh. UNICEF is also providing urgent support in Cox’s Bazar district with the recent influx of Rohingya children and their families. Children are the hardest hit and require the support to survive and […]

Doklam standoff settlement a victory for Asia

Source:Global Times Published: 2017/8/30 0:03:39 India withdrew its troops to its own territory along the China-India border on Monday. The next day, it announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China in early September. Both China and India have indicated that they intend to leave the Doklam border […]

At least 20 Rohingya people dead after boat sinks off Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — The death toll from a sunken boat packed with Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar in a border river in southeastern Bangladesh rose to 20 on Thursday after another 14 bodies were retrieved, said a local police official. Chailau Marma, additional superintendent of police in Bangladesh‘s Cox’s Bazar district, some 292 […]

Aid agencies help hardest-hit in flood-ravaged Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands await relief

Boats are now the only lifeline for hundreds of people living on a remote island on Jamuna, one of the three major rivers in Bangladesh, reports Xinhua. Beribari Island in Bangladesh’s northern Sirajganj district, some 134 km northwest of Dhaka, has been left completely cut off from the mainland for a month by flesh floods […]

World Bank Helps Bangladesh Improve Public Procurement Performance

DHAKA, Aug. 29 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh today signed an agreement with the World Bank to use digital technology to monitor the country’s annual development programs and improve the performance of public procurement. The $55 million Digitizing Implementation Monitoring and Public Procurement Project (DIMAPPP) will help Bangladesh expand electronic government procurement (e-GP) to […]

Anxiety drives China manipulation theory in US warship collision probe

Source:Global Times Published: 2017/8/27 23:18:40 After the USS John S. McCain collided with a commercial ship on August 21, Western media recently cited US navy officers as saying that the review of the accident would include the possibility of cyber intrusion or sabotage. These media outlets then pointed their fingers at China. Among the Western […]

GP starts distributing relief worth BDT 10 crore through Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone Ltd. has started a relief operation worth BDT 10 crore for the victims of the ongoing %ood across the country. The funds will go towards the preparation of relief packs for distribution through our disaster response partner Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS). Grameenphone started to distribute reliefs in most […]

Unnayan Onneshan reveals monumental deficit in current account

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan (UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its monthly publication of the ‘Bangladesh Economic Update’ August 2017, reveals that monumental deficit in current account together with declining wage earner’s remittance and foreign aid disbursement exerts immense pressure on the country’s balance of payment. Calling for a thorough reexamination […]