Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
TRIPOLI, Aug. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Nearly 200 illegal immigrants may have died off Libya’s western Zuwara coast on Thursday after a boat carrying around 400 people sank, a security official told Xinhua on Friday. “We have recovered 82 bodies washed ashore so far, while about 100 people are still missing,” a coast guard official said, […]
Read MoreVIENNA, Aug. 30 (NsNewsWire) — The 71 dead migrants who were found Thursday in an abandoned lorry on a motorway in eastern Austria near Vienna died from lack of air, police said on Saturday. It is hard to imagine how crowded the lorry was, as 71 people could not even stand together inside the middle-sized […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 30 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top legislature has adopted a prisoner amnesty deal which will see thousands of war veterans as well as very old, young or infirm prisoners granted official pardons, in a move marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3. The deal, promulgated by President […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The sales of the book Xi Jinping: the Governance of China, have exceeded 5.2 million around the world, Zhou Mingwei, head of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, said Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Zhou was speaking at the 22nd Beijing International Book Fair, which opened Wednesday. The book, published in Chinese, English, […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Recent volatilities of Chinese stock markets and the currency depreciation are “natural” in such an economic transition as China is undergoing, chairman of the Principal Financial Group said, reports Xinhua. Larry Zimpleman, also chief executive officer of the Principal Financial Group, said in a recent interview with Xinhua that he […]
Read MoreChild marriage in Bangladesh is a persistent problem despite minimum age laws and government vows to curtail the practice. Nearly one-third of Bangladeshi girls under 15 are married, the highest rate for that age group in the world, according to UNICEF. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced last year that child marriage would end in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Flooding sparked by heavy seasonal rains and onrush of water from hills across the Indian borders have affected parts of Bangladesh and left up to half a million homeless. Authorities have evacuated residents of hundreds of villages to higher ground in a number of districts that are prone to torrential […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s economic policy-making body is all set to approve a proposal for constructing a new road to Myanmar, aimed at boosting bilateral trade. A Planning Ministry official who did not like to be named said the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council will likely approve the proposal on Tuesday […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng has arrived in Dhaka in his maiden visit to Bangladesh to enhance cooperation in trade and investment. Hucheng is expected to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, President Abdul Hamid, Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali. During the […]
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