Inter-Korean talks deserve encouragement

Inter-Korean talks deserve encouragement Source:Global Times Published: 2018/1/9 22:58:39 North Korea and South Korea held rare talks in Panmunjom on Tuesday, giving pause to tensions on the peninsula. It remains uncertain how far the talks, for the sake of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, can go. While many people hope the talks […]

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World Bank Helps Bangladesh Modernize Safety Net Programs

DHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Today, the government of Bangladesh signed an agreement with the World Bank to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of its major safety net programs. The $245 million additional financing to the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest Project will help improve beneficiary targeting, information management, and benefit payment of […]

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Chinese Power Giant NEPC Set Up Office in Dhaka

DHAKA,Jan. 6 ( NsNewsWire) — NEPC, one of the Chinese giant power engineering companies, has set up its office in the capital with a long term plan to penetrate Bangladesh market through setting up more power stations as well as importing power generation oriented machineries and equipment. NEPC (China Energy Engineering Group Northeast No. 1 […]

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First look at GC2018 athletics track

Gold Coast, Jan. 5 (NsNewsWire) — World champion hurdler Sally Pearson and decathlete Cedric Dubler got their first look at the newly laid athletics track at Carrara Stadium with only three months to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Pearson is gunning for a third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal in the […]

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Bangladesh PM Hasina reshuffles cabinet

DHAKA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — With about a year left of her government’s second consecutive term, in a major cabinet reshuffle, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inducted three new faces into her cabinet and promoted a junior minister as full minister and redistributed the duties and responsibilities of several others. According to a gazette […]

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385,793 babies to be born globally on New Year’s Day

    Dhaka, Jan. 1 (NsNewsWire) —  Approximately 8,370 babies will be born in Bangladesh on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. Bangladeshi babies will account for 2.17 per cent of the estimated 385,793 babies to be born globally on New Year’s Day. Kiribati’s Christmas Island, a small island in the Pacific, will most likely […]

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Award-winning Taiwan journalist connects with stranger who saved his life

DHAKA, Nov. 6 (NsNewsWire) — It took months – but the award-winning reporter for Taiwan’s SET News, a Taipei-based cable television channel, was finally able to thank a man who came to the spot to become his lifesaver after a fatal road accident. Jouranlist Fu Chia-ching Saturday found the benevolent stranger who was identified as the […]

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Laila Hossain, journalist Ekram Kabir’s mother, dies at 71

DHAKA, Dec. 18 (NsNewswire) — Laila Hossain, Mother of eminent journalist Md. Ekram Kabir, (Currently Vice President –Communications and Corporate Responsibility, Robi Axiata Limited) has passed away at around 6 am on Dec. 18, 2016. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un. She was 71. She left behind husband, two sons, two daughters and a host […]

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