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DHAKA, June 28 (Xinhua) — Summit Group, the leading power generator in Bangladesh, will invest at least $1 billion to build five power plants capable of producing 1,310 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2020, aiming to ease a prolonged crisis in the country’s energy supply, a senior executive said. Ayesha Aziz Khan, finance director, told […]
Read MoreHong Kong, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA has announced further details on the GSMA Innovation City, which is being held at Mobile World Congress Shanghai and builds on last year’s popular Connected City exhibit. According to a GSMA statement, the showcase, which is now in its third year, invites visitors to explore a real-life city […]
Read MoreBengaluru, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Believe it or not but it looks like Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina might vote in the upcoming civic polls in Bengaluru. If a voter ID card found in Karnataka is to be believed, Hasina is a resident of Bengaluru’s Thanisandra area. The card clearly shows her picture and names […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — To foster empowerment and leadership skills of elected women representatives in rural local government, UNICEF and the National Institute of Local Government (NILG) has initiated a training programme for the elected women representatives of Union Parishads (UPs) and Upazila Parishads (UZPs) in 20 selected districts. According to a Unicef media […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh expects to recruit 500,000 workers over the next six months to work in Malaysia under a new recruitment agreement hammered out by the two countries on Wednesday. The workers would be offered a three-year contract with the option to extend it by another year, reports www.freemalaysiatoday.com. The new agreement […]
Read MoreCHANGSHA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese people generally love munching on chicken feet — fengzhao, as they are known — but Beijing-based editor Han Jing recently found the delicacy a little bit nauseating. Han had been a huge fan of the tasty snack until chicken feet became the center of a food scare. In China’s […]
Read MoreHANOI, June 25 (Xinhua) — Vietnam will host the 25th Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and related activities in 2017, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Wednesday on its website. Speaking during an international seminar on APEC organization held in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh […]
Read MoreCHENGDU, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Biologists have found a strain of duckweed that can effectively purify polluted water and transform nitric oxide into biological fertilizer, a researcher told Xinhua on Wednesday. A research team lead by Zhao Hai, with the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified the duckweed species from […]
Read MoreSTRASBOURG, June 24 (NsNewsWire) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded here on Tuesday the protection of the rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, in particular those crossed the Mediterranean and the sea of Andaman, as well as the Gulf of Bengal, reports Xinhua. “Globall, nearly 60 million people are forcibly displaced. This is […]
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