Child laborers in Bangladesh: victims of poverty

by Naim-Ul-Karim Nahid Hossain Babu, a boy with 10 years old at best has been working in a tiny workshop named “Japani Metal” at Jinjira in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka for one year. He works 12 hours a day to make metal components, earing 1,600 taka (about 21 U.S. dollars) a […]

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Chinese FM’s Remarks At the Media Briefing on G20 Hangzhou Summit

DHAKA, June 12 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of the Remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi At the Media Briefing on the recently held G20 Hangzhou Summit: “Dear Guests, Friends from the Press, Good morning! Today is 26 May, and tomorrow will mark the 100-day countdown of the G20 […]

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Chinese funded Bangladesh’s largest-ever ICT project connects 20,000 gov’t offices

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, June 9 (Xinhua) — The Bangladeshi government in collaboration with China Machinery Engineering Corporation ( CMEC) has implemented the country’s largest-ever ICT project which brought nearly 20,000 government offices across the country under a nationwide connectivity. Bangladesh’s highest economic policy-making body on July 3, 2013 approved the China-financed 13.33 billion taka project […]

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Xi underscores challenge, opportunity of aging population

BEIJING, May 29 (NsNewsWire) — President Xi Jinping has called for better care for China’s aging population, reports Xinhua Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks on Friday afternoon at a group study attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on […]

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Tahmima Anam: ‘I have a complicated relationship with Bangladesh’

There’s a moment in Tahmima Anam’s latest novel when her protagonist, Zubaida, realises that she may never be as fulfilled as her parents, who lived through the war in Bangladesh. “The war was fundamental, a kind of birth not just for the country but for all the too-young people who had willed the country into […]

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