Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
SEOUL, April 25 (Xinhua) — South Korea‘s exports volume hit a record high, raising expectations that the country’s exports may get back on a full recovery track, central bank data showed Tuesday. The export volume index came in at 151.26 in March, up 4.9 percent from a year earlier, according to the Bank of Korea […]
Read MoreBEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) — China’s quarterly job report delivered a positive message Tuesday as 3.34 million new jobs were created in the first quarter and the unemployment rate fell to 3.97 percent. The number of new jobs was 160,000 higher than that in the same period last year, and the unemployment rate was down […]
Read MoreAMMAN, April 25 (Xinhua) — A law which used to protect rapists from punishment if they married their victims has been scrapped in Jordan, marking a major victory of women’s rights activists after years of campaigning. The Jordanian cabinet on Sunday revoked Article 308 of the Penal Code, which states that rapists are spared from […]
Read MoreMOSUL, Iraq, April 25 (Xinhua) — Iraqi government forces on Tuesday freed a new neighborhood after heavy clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in the western side of Mosul, the Iraqi military said. The elite forces, known as Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), drove out IS militants from the neighborhood of al-Tanak in western edge of […]
Read MoreBERLIN, April 25 (Xinhua) — Germany made a sign of relief on Monday after Sunday’s first-round presidential election in France. “We are pleased and relieved that the vote of the French voters is a pro-European one,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) quoted a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry as saying. Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and ultra-right […]
Read MoreMOSCOW, April 25 (Xinhua) — About 6,900 Russians with tick bites have been admitted to hospitals since March 16, the Russian news agency TASS reported Tuesday. “Rospotrebnadzor believes that such dynamics corresponds to the average level”, TASS quoted Russian federal health and epidemic watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying. Since March 16, the department has begun to […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, April 25 (Xinhua) — Indian government is contemplating to provide a unique identification numbers for cows in the country to prevent their trafficking, officials said Tuesday. The information was submitted by the federal government in the country’s top court, which was hearing a petition by an organization alleging rampant smuggling of cattle across […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — White-Board, Grameenphone’s platform for digital innovators in association of Facebook Developer Circle Dhaka, hosted the F8 Meetup in Dhaka on April 19, 2017 at GPHouse. This event was held in relation with Facebook’s annual developer conference F8, which was held in San Jose, California, on April 18 and April 19. […]
Read MoreSAN RAMON, April 24 (NsNewsWire) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chevron Global Ventures, Ltd., has entered into an agreement to sell the shares of its wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh to Himalaya Energy Co. Ltd. Chevron Bangladesh operates Block 12 (Bibiyana Field) and Blocks 13 and 14 (Jalalabad and […]
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