Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The White House was cautious on Wednesday in its comments on the Jordanian government’s retaliatory execution of two Iraqi extremists after the Islamic State (IS) released a video purporting to show IS burning alive a Jordanian pilot hostage. “These were individuals who were sentenced to death and were serving time […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered obtaining accurate information on the TransAsia Airways airplane that crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday as quickly as possible and providing assistance in treating the injured people. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Scores of Bangladeshi opposition leaders and activists including ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia have been sued over Tuesday’s deadly arson attack in eastern Bangladesh during the countrywide non-stop blockade, local police said Wednesday. According to a police official who preferred to be unnamed, two lawsuits were filed in Comilla district, some […]
Read MoreTAIPEI, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — A plane of the Taiwan TransAsia Airways came down into a Taipei river Wednesday, with more than 50 people on board, confirmed the civil aviation authorities of Taiwan. Contact with the ATR-72 Flight, scheduled from Taipei to Kinmen, lost at about 11 a.m. Then the plane was found in the […]
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Jeddah, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — The manpower market of Saudi Arabia is open again for Bangladeshi workers starting Sunday Feb. 1, a statement issued by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Riyadh yesterday said. The news of the opening was conveyed to Md. Shahidul Islam, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by Dr. […]
Read MoreAMMAN, Jordan, Feb 4 (NsNewsWire) — When relatives learned Tuesday night that the Islamic State had released a video showing the death of a Jordanian fighter pilot, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, they tried to keep it from his mother, Issaf, and his wife, Anwar. They switched off the television and tried to wrest a smartphone […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — “Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher,” Confucius famously said. As reports of a possible meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are circulating, it is time to remind the U.S. president of his words in Beijing about three months ago, […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi who just assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of February, announced on Tuesday a special commemorative debate in the 15-nation council for Feb. 23 to be chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “The council […]
Read MoreJAKARTA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with Meng Jianzhu, a senior Chinese security official here on Tuesday. Meng, head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and a special envoy of President Xi Jinping, conveyed an oral message from Xi to […]
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