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China launches landmark Shanghai-Hong Kong stock link program

SHANGHAI, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Gongs were struck in the Shanghai and Hong Kong bourses to mark the historic start of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program on Monday. The initiative is a landmark trading link program allowing investors to trade on both bourses. It has been seen as a significant move toward a more […]

Arrests follow Bangladesh professor murder

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi police have arrested at least 20 people for questioning over the murder of a prominent university professor who was hacked to death, several years after he led a push to ban students wearing full-face veils. The victim, Shafiul Islam, was killed on Saturday near Rajshahi University in the west […]

Zimbabwe lose to Bangladesh in Test series whitewash

Chittagong, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh wrapped up a Test series whitewash over Zimbabew by securing 186-run win in the final game at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium in southeastern Chittagong city on Sunday. Shafiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Jubair Hossain and Shuvagata Hom took 2 wickets each in the second innings to help bowl out […]

10th AGM of Thailand-Bangladesh Chamber held

DHAKA, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The 10th Annual General Meeting of the Bangladesh Thai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BTCCI) was held on Saturday at a local club. President Sajjatuz Jumma presided over the meeting. BTCCI Patron & DCCI President Mohammad Shahjahan Khan, BTCCI Founder President Eng. Rashed Maksud Khan, Past President K Habib Sattar […]

Accidental grenade explosion kills 2 soldiers, wounds 4 in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — An accidental explosion of a grenade killed two soldiers of paramilitary Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) in the country’s hill district Khagrachari on Sunday afternoon. Four soldiers were also seriously injured in the explosion during a training excercise in a cantonment in the southeastern Khagachari district, said a local police […]

Erdogan says Muslims, not Columbus, discovered Americas

Istanbul, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus,” the conservative president […]

Emirates brands Muslim Brotherhood terrorists

DUBAI, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The United Arab Emirates designated the Muslim Brotherhood and dozens of other Islamist groups as terrorist organizations on Saturday, ratcheting up the pressure on the group by lumping it together with extremists such as the Islamic State group and the Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria. The federation’s Cabinet adopted […]

Death toll in Libya’s Benghazi clashes rises to 356

BENGHAZI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Another 16 people were killed in violent clashes between Libyan army and Islamic militants in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, adding the total death toll to 356, sources said. “The center has received 16 dead bodies killed in clashes and random shooting on Sunday,” a medical source in […]

Xinjiang’s first high-speed rail starts operation

URUMQI, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The first high-speed rail in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region became operational on Sunday, slashing travel time between the regional capital of Urumqi and the eastern city of Hami by half to three hours. The 530-km rail, with a designed speed of over 200 km per hour, is part […]