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Xi’s New Year visit marks village homecoming

YAN’AN, Shaanxi, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — At the entrance to a village in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, the man villagers had been waiting for finally arrived. They were excited and called him by his first name: Jinping. Forty-seven years ago, a teen Xi Jinping came to Liangjiahe as part of a campaign launched by Chairman […]

BNP calls another 72-hour strike

DHAKA, Feb. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called another 72-hour nationwide strike form Sunday morning. BNP Spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement of latest strike through a press release on Saturday. Salauddin Ahmed, a BNP joint secretary general, said the 72-hour strike will start at 6:00 a.m. local time Sunday and will […]

Narendra Modi makes phone call to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Narendra Damodardas Modi has made a phone call to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Both Modi and Hasina talked over phone on Friday morning, sources. But the sources could not tell immediately what they discussed during the phone talks

Funeral for Muslims Killed in Chapel Hill Draws Thousands

RALEIGH, N.C. , Feb.13 (NsNewsWire) — The three friends drove here Thursday from Blacksburg, Va., 190 miles to the north. Dressed in hijab and fashionable dresses, carrying a fabric floral arrangement in a gold-colored pot, they came for the funeral of the three Arab-American students who were gunned down at their home a couple of […]

Myanmar fighting kills ‘dozens’ in recent days

Nay Pyi Taw, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Nearly 50 soldiers have been killed in three days of fighting between government troops and Kokang ethnic rebels in Myanmar, state media report. The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said airstrikes had been used in the response to the flare-up in Shan state, near the Chinese border, […]

Maritime Silk Road initiative to reduce friction, catalyze common prosperity

by Xinhua Writer Wang Haiqing Even a not-so-close scrutiny of the maritime Silk Road proposed by China will allow the observer to know that the route passes large areas in the South China Sea. With China laying bear its concepts and intentions of win-win development, common prosperity and cultural inclusiveness in initiating such a route, […]

China plans quality growth, anti-graft drive in 2015

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China will focus on improving economic quality in 2015 and adapt itself to slower growth against global economic headwinds, top policy makers agreed on Thursday. Economic growth should remain within the desired range and restructuring of the economy will be at the center of policy decisions, according to a meeting […]

Bangladesh on the Brink

By The New York Times EDITORIAL BOARD Bangladesh is on the edge of political chaos, and the intransigence of both the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh National Party is to blame. Unless both parties take immediate steps to pull back from entrenched positions, restrain the violent elements of their activist bases and embark […]

Summit forum of int’l seminar on Maritime Silk Road held in SE China

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation of the U.S., gives a speech during the summit forum of the international seminar on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road held in Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Feb. 12, 2015. The seminar opened here on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)