Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday requested an immediate investigation into the cause of a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai. New Year celebrations in the Bund area went astray Wednesday night, when a stampede killed at least 35 people and injured 42 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Beijing’s Yanqi Island, the host site of this year’s APEC meetings, opened to the public on Thursday. The islet on the scenic Yanqi Lake is the site of an international convention center where Chinese and foreign top leaders met during the 2014 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in November, reports Xinua. […]
Read MoreSHANGHAI, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — People unable to contact friends and relatives streamed into hospitals Thursday, anxious for information after a stampede during New Year’s celebrations in Shanghai’s historic waterfront area killed 36 people in the worst disaster to hit one of China’s showcase cities in recent years. The Shanghai government said 47 others received […]
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DHAKA, Jan. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Bank foreign exchange reserves stood at 22,309.80 million U.S. dollars in December after reaching 21,590.04 million U.S. dollars in November, said a central bank official on Thursday. Reserve hit an all-time high of 22.37 billion U.S. dollars on Dec. 18, reflecting the country’s strength from the economic and financial […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his New Year speech via state broadcasters, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 31, 2014.
Read MoreBEIJING, 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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, 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 […]
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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 […]
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