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DHAKA, Dec. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul has been sentenced to death for committing war crimes including mass killings. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Tuesday afternoon on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentence to Islam, now behind the bar. He was indicted in November […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — Political discipline should be further enhanced and fractions within the Party that are organized for personal gain are “absolutely not tolerated,” a key meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was told. “Despite a certain amount of control over undesirable work styles and corruption, the entire Party should keep […]
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Photo taken on Dec. 30, 2014 shows Chinese rescue vessel Nanhaijiu 101 berthed in a port of Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province. China announced on Dec. 29, 2014 that it will send aircraft and vessel to join the search and rescue work for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501. By far, a navy frigate on […]
Read MoreJAKARTA/PANGKALPINANG, Indonesia, Dec. 30 (NsNewsWire) — More countries were sending planes and ships on Tuesday to join an expanding search operation in the Java Sea off Indonesia where an AirAsia plane disappeared as the sea and aerial hunt entered its third day. Around 30 ships, 15 fixed-wing aircraft and seven helicopters from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Beijing has set up a special team to investigate a construction site accident which killed ten workers and injured another four on Monday morning, local authorities said. The incident occurred at a construction site at Tsinghua High School campus’ south side at around 8:20 a.m, reports Xinhua. The findings of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — A female school teacher was dead and dozens of others including cops injured Monday in stray incidents of violence during the nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike enforced by Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance. During the early hours of the hartal, Shamsunnahar, 37, succumbed to her injuries when an alleged picket hurled brick […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — At least 3 people were killed and over a dozen others injured after a train derailed after being hit by a covered van near Kamalapur railway station area in Dhaka. Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Government Railway Police (GRP) at Kamalapur, told journalists that collision left two persons dead on the […]
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Jakarta, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Naval ships, small boats, helicopters and surveillance aircraft from four nations expanded the search Monday for a missing AirAsia jetliner in the waters off of Indonesia. Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, which was leading the effort, said investigators believed the plane carrying 162 mostly […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — China has responded positively to Bangladesh’s proposal for the long-cherished road connectivity from Chittagong to Kunming via Cox’s Bazar and Myanmar. Emerging from the bilateral talks, Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told journalists “We’ve proposed establishing rail and road connectivity between Chittagong and Kunming. This is the first time […]
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