Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Groundless accusations and “microphone diplomacy” are not solving any problems, said spokesman of the Chinese embassy in Washington Zhu Haiquan on Monday. Zhu was responding to a NBC report which accused China of trying to invade senior U.S. government officials’ private email, reports Xinhua. “Combating cross-border network hacker attacks needs […]
Read MoreBy Yasmin Ramlan Malaysia, Aug. 13 (NsNewsWire) — The plan to bring in some 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh to Malaysia in stages over three years contradicts objectives in the 11th Malaysia Plan (11MP) to reduce dependency on low-skilled foreign labour, the country’s umbrella body of trade unions said. Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general […]
Read MoreBy Michael Cohn The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide an online CPA Certificate in IPSAS Financial Reporting in Bangladesh, reports accounting today. CPA Ireland has been signing a series of such deals this year to provide its […]
Read MoreTianjin, China , Aug. 13 (NsNewsWire) — A series of huge explosions shook the northern Chinese city of Tianjin late Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, injuring hundreds and leaving dozens of firefighters missing, reports CNN quoting officials and state media. Liu Yue, a 25-year-old Tianjin resident, said she felt the first blast but […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Beijing will shut down roads and close metro stations for night rehearsals of a parade to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, schedule on Sept. 3. According to the Beijing police, the rehearsals will be held from 10:30 p.m. Aug.13 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s trade deficit ballooned in the last fiscal year 2014-15 concluded in June on the back of an increase in imports, said a central bank official Wednesday. Trade deficit in the last fiscal year 2014-15 (July 2014-June 2015) surged 45.97 percent to about 10 billion U.S. dollars compared to a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — For Mihantsa Ferwando, who comes from Madagascar but now lives in Dhaka, it has always been her dream to visit China and become fluent in the Chinese language. And this is the reason why she joined the Chinese Bridge competition held on the weekend in this capital city, reports Xinhua. […]
Read MoreA team of high-level officials from Bangladesh has arrived at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) to learn about democratic decentralisation and child-friendly panchayats. Representatives of the UNICEF from Bangladesh are also accompanying them. The 40-member team is here to evolve a development strategy for the backward local body institutions of 20 districts in […]
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Google announced Monday restructuring its operations by creating a publicly traded parent company known as Alphabet Inc. “Our company is operating well today,” Google co-founder Larry Page wrote in a letter included in a regulatory filing, “but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.” Alphabet, designed […]
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