Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author/Channel NewsAsia The North Korean leader made a cunning play for the country’s normalisation, says the US Council on Foreign Relations’s Scott Snyder Supreme Leader and Korean Worker’s Party Chairman, Kim Jong Un, made a consequential shift in January of this…
Dawn An accountability court on Monday handed ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif seven years in jail and a fine of $2.5 million in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference, and acquitted him in the Flagship Investments reference. According to local media reports, the PML-N quaid was taken into custody in court and will be transported…
Jacek Rostowski was Poland’s Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from 2007 to 2013/ My Republica British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to withdraw her country from the European Union in an orderly fashion is collapsing. Though she has survived a no-confidence vote, in January the House of Commons will almost certainly reject the…
BSS Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled her plan to upgrade the poorer people’s lifestyle in the capital saying if elected to power, her government would redesign the city’s congested areas and resettle slum dwellers in apartment complexes. “The rich people alone will not live in the flats buildings, multistoried residential…
DOT Desk The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Joules Power Limited (JPL) to establish country’s first solar Independent Power Producer (IPP), reports The Financial Express. The $180 million MoU was signed on Monday at the BEZA headquarters to construct the 100MW solar farm at BEZA’s Chandpur economic…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Juktofront, an opposition alliance under the leadership of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, unveiled its manifesto yesterday pledging reforms to the administration. The Daily Star reported that Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, president of Bikalpa Dhara, announced the election manifesto at a hotel in the capital, with less than a week to go for…
Sky News Two fishermen have been rescued by a cruise ship in what has been described as a Christmas miracle. The Costa Ricans had been adrift at sea for about three weeks when they were spotted by the crew of the Empress of The Seas. According to James Van Fleet, chief meteorologist at the cruise…
UNB India has said it is committed to continuing to “respond swiftly to any crisis” in Bangladesh, in keeping with the close ties of friendship between the two countries. The Indian High Commission in Dhaka said this on Monday asIndia has started delivering a fourth tranche of Indian relief assistance for Rohingya people forcibly displaced…
Metro A mum-of-three has been branded ‘selfish’ and ‘disgusting’ after posting a photo online of the mountain of presents she has bought her children for Christmas. The pile of gifts is so big it swamps her Christmas tree but as she faced criticism for ‘spoiling’ her children she hit back: ‘It’s my money’. Emma Tapping,…
Protik Chakraborty, works at the Centre for Research and Information (CRI)/BDnews24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 10 years in power (2008-18) has seen phenomenal economic growth and human development that has turned Bangladesh, once derisively described as ‘a basket case’ by Henry Kissinger, into one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. As her ruling Awami League faces…