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President Xi delivers New Year speech

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his New Year speech via state broadcasters, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 31, 2014.

Commentary: Not a “Chinese Century,” but a less Westernized world

BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) — As the world marches into 2015, the international landscape augurs just another year of what history wonks refer to as Pax Americana. A “Chinese Century” foreseen by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and many others has not begun. Even if — a very big if given the notorious inaccuracy of […]

Violent brawl likely between Bangladesh ruling, opposition parties over elections

DHAKA, Jan. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has tabled a seven-point proposal to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasian’s government for an immediate “inclusive general elections” under a non-party caretaker government. Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP), at a press briefing in capital Dhaka on Wednesday night unveiled the […]

China launches new-type frigate for Bangladesh

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — A new-type of frigate built for the Bangladesh Navy was launched in the riverside city of Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Tuesday. The frigate, with a displacement of 1,300 tons and maximum speed of 25 knots, is 90 meters long and 11 meters across the beam. It can […]

UN rejects Palestinian resolution to end Israel’s occupation

United Nations, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — The Security Council rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years late Tuesday, a blow to an Arab campaign to get the U.N.’s most powerful body to take action to achieve an independent state of Palestine. The United States, Israel’s closest ally, had made […]

New Indian Visa Application Centre Now in Dhanmondi

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — State Bank of India (SBI), the authorized agent of the High Commission of India, Dhaka for accepting Indian visa applications through Indian Visa Application Centres (IVACs), is pleased to announce the opening of a new IVAC facility in Dhaka for receipt and delivery of visa applications, as per the following […]

Bodies and debris found in AirAsia plane search

SURABAYA, Indonesia, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) –Debris and bodies from the AirAsia flight were found Tuesday in Indonesian waters, three days after the jetliner with 162 people disappeared from radar in bad weather. The country’s National Search and Rescue Agency confirmed that debris from the aircraft was found in the Karimata Strait between Sumatra, Java and […]

Bangladeshi ex-PM Khaleda Zia convenese press briefing today

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will hold a press briefing (today) Wednesday evening.

Bangladesh Jamaat enforces strike over party leader’s death penalty

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party has enforced a dawn-to-dusk nationwide strike for Wednesday.Bangladesh The party has called nationwide strike for Wednesday and Thursday in protest against the death sentences handed over to its leader for war crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Jamaat in a press release published […]