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Apparel summit for 50 bln USD garment export roadmap kicks off

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) – Bangladesh’s 1st ever apparel summit kicked off in capital Dhaka on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the three-day at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. The summit aimed at discussing roadmap to nearly double the country’s garment export income which stood at over 24 billion US dollars in 2013-14 fiscal year […]

BRAC announces 1 lakh blanket contribution to help the cold-affected people

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — BRAC has announced that it will distribute one lakh blankets to the poor people who suffer the most during winter. To increase this number further, BRAC and Aarong are launching a national campaign called “Ektu Ushnotar Jonno” to collect cash and warm clothes contribution and distribute among people. Every year, […]

Dhaka Bank DMD Neaz Mohammad Khan expires

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Dhaka Bank family deeply mourns the sad demise of Mr. Neaz Mohammad Khan, Deputy Managing Director of Dhaka Bank Limited. He breathed his last at Square Hospital, Dhaka on December 7, 2014 at the age of 57 (Inna Lillah he wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun) (Truly, to Allah we belong, Truly, […]

China sends fresh water to Maldive

[More] BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — China will ship about 1,000 tons fresh water to water-starved Maldives via plane and vessel, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry and Defence Ministry on Saturday evening. About 150,000 residents are faced with water scarcity in Male, capital of Maldives, as a fire at the Maldives Water and Sewage Company […]

Chinese government releases position paper on matter of jurisdiction in South China Sea arbitration initiated by Philippines

BEIJING, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — The Chinese foreign ministry was authorized to release on Sunday a position paper of the government on the matter of jurisdiction in the South China Sea arbitration initiated by the Republic of the Philippines. The Position Paper reiterates its firm standing that the Chinese Government will neither accept nor participate […]

53,000 fled Myanmar, Bangladesh by sea in 2014: UNHCR

DHAKA, Geneva 6 (NsNewsWire) — A new UNHCR report released on Friday has found that more people are risking their lives on smugglers’ boats in South-East Asia despite the prospect of violence en route. The refugee agency estimates that 54,000 people have undertaken irregular maritime journeys in the region so far this year, based on […]

India arrests accused in suspected plot to kill Bangladesh PM

Guwahati, India, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Indian police have arrested a key suspect behind a blast in the state of West Bengal who is also believed to have been involved in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and stage a coup there. Shahnor Alom, who was arrested in a village in […]

Pakistan finalizes 30 players for ICC Cricket World Cup

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly finalized its 30 probable players for next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand, sources said on Friday. The sources said the national selection committee of the PCB prepared the list of players after judging their fitness, […]

China Arrests Ex-Security Chief, Zhou Yongkang, in Corruption Inquiry

HONG KONG, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — China’s former chief of domestic security, who has been under investigation for months in an anticorruption inquiry, has been expelled from the Communist Party and arrested, the official state news agency announced early Saturday. The former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, is the highest-ranking party leader to be prosecuted since […]