Sayeed Muhammad: In a major healthcare revamp, The government has taken a step to increase the license and renewal fees of: private medical colleges, hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres—to increase revenue collection from this sector. If implemented, this will be first such fees hike in the sector since 1982, reports UNB referring to the Finance…
ABC News: With fewer areas in active combat in Syria, more children are going back to school this year, the Syrian government said, putting the number at 4 million. Keen to project an image of normalcy, the government said it has rehabilitated over 400 schools over the last two months alone and called on students…
M Humayun Kabir: The government is attempting to kill Khaleda Zia by illegally detaining her in jail after sentencing her in a “fabricated case”, said BNP. “The government knows its political existence will be in crisis if Khaleda Zia is freed that is why it is illegally detaining her in fabricated cases even after she…
Reuters: German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday he assumed all EU members would adhere to EU rules when asked about Italy, amid question marks about the new government’s budgetary plans. “I think we all know that we in Europe have big tasks ahead of us. Everyone needs to sort out their own problems…
Al Jazeera: Paraguay will return its embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, reversing a contentious decision taken months ago by the previous government. “Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East,” Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni said on Wednesday….
Russia Today: If you had any lingering doubt that Facebook has become little more than a vehicle for US government censorship and Western propaganda, a recent Washington Post op-ed by Mark Zuckerberg should remove any ambiguity. In his short and snappy op-ed, Mark Zuckerberg admits that “protecting democracy” is an “arms race” and reaffirms Facebook’s…
Channelnewsasia: Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation” and that it had lodged a strong complaint. The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious warship carrying a contingent of Royal Marines,…
Reuters: A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a journalist in an assault on a hotel in Juba in 2016, and ordered the government to pay compensation to the victims. The attack, one of the worst on aid workers…
Channelnewsasia: Japan’s Kansai airport will reopen partially on Friday, the government said Thursday (Sep 6), after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland. The collision left the airport, which is on an artificial island, temporarily cut off, stranding thousands of…
Russia Today: US President Donald Trump has denied he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key claim in a new book by renowned Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. “That was never even contemplated,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday as he met with the emir of Kuwait. According to…