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China rejects Britain’s “moral duty” to Hong Kong

BEIJING, Dec. 4 (NsNewsWire) — China has rejected Britain’s “moral duty” to Hong Kong, adding some British lawmakers’ attempts to meddle in China’s internal affairs is “not acceptable” and “doomed to fail.” “Britain has no sovereignty over, no governance of, and no superintendence over Hong Kong since Hong Kong returned to China in 1997,” Foreign […]

Bangladesh, Malaysia ink four deals

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh and Malaysia have inked four agreements. Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur singed the agreements Wednesday in the presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak in Putra Jaya. The agreements aimed at easing visa requirements and bolstering more cooperation in tourism, cultural exchanges and […]

Two senior Chinese officials removed from office

BEIJING, Dec. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Two senior Chinese officials have been removed from office for “serious discipline and law violations.” They are Zhu Mingguo, chair of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Sui Fengfu, deputy head of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress, which was confirmed […]

The Land Swap Deal With Bangladesh That PM Modi is Backing

New Delhi, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — India has taken a move toward settling the long-simmering border dispute with Bangladesh, signaling a softer line from Prime Minister Narendra Modi than when his party, the BJP, was in opposition. Today, a parliamentary committee urged the government to table a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for […]

Feature: Internet technology raises educational hopes for rural children in Bangladesh

By Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — A charming, yet revolutionary television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas, as local students are being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in […]

Will Go Ahead With Land Swap Deal With Bangladesh to Stop Infiltration, Says PM Modi

Guawahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Centre will go ahead with a land swapping deal with Bangladesh to stop infiltration and find a permanent solution to the long-pending border dispute between the two countries. “I will make such arrangements that all roads will be closed for Bangladeshis who are coming and destroying Assam […]

Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]

Bangladesh’s active mobile subscriber base reaches 118.932 mln

DHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh cell phone users reached 118.932 million at the end of October this year, official data showed Thursday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell, Teletalk — at the […]

SAARC Summit begins in Kathmandu

DHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal’s […]