Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — With China’s economic growth slowing for a sixth year in 2016 to a 26-year low, the world is watching as the government prepares to announce this year’s growth target at the annual parliamentary session. China adopted a target range for GDP growth for the first time in more than two […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — China on Monday warned against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in the Republic of Korea (ROK), saying China’s security interests should not be undermined. There were media reports that the Lotte Group board of directors met on Monday to approve a land swap deal between the […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — China should rely on its own efforts and intelligence to find the appropriat way of developing football instead of just buying oversea clubs, said a spokesman of China’s General Administration of Sports on Monday. “China’s football development should depend on our own efforts and intelligence, the road of simply relying […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Fengyun-4, the first of China’s second-generation geostationary orbiting weather satellites, has sent its first collection of images and data. The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) and the China Meteorological Administration published the images and data on Monday, signaling the successful upgrade of China’s meteorological […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — China’s consumer price index (CPI) is expected to grow by about 1.4 percent in February from a year earlier, the Bank of Communications said on Monday. The official CPI in February, a main gauge of inflation, is due to be released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March […]
Read MoreLOS ANGELES, Feb. 27(NsNewsWire) — “Moonlight” received an unexpected surprise by winning the Best Picture of the 89th Academy Awards here on Sunday, after “La La Land” had been presented the award in error. The award presenters, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, first presented “La La Land” as the winner, but later realized they had […]
Read MoreSHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Four militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group including notorious commander Qari Qudrat were killed in the northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan on Monday, provincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani said. “Acting on tip off, units of police laid ambush against IS fighters in Qushtapa district today morning as […]
Read MoreMOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Iraqi forces on Monday continued fierce clashes against Islamic State (IS) militants in western Mosul and seized a neighborhood in the southern outskirts of the embattled city, the Iraq military said. Federal police and interior ministry special forces, known as Rapid Response, recaptured al-Tayaran neighborhood and then raised the […]
Read MorePARIS, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — In response to unfavorable comments over Paris, French President Francois Hollande on Saturday warned his American counterpart Donald Trump over showing “defiance towards an allied country.” “There is terrorism and we must fight it together. I think that it is never good to show the smallest defiance toward an allied […]
Read More