A joint UN-hosted donor conference to rally international support behind Myanmar's displaced Rohingya minority, ended on Thursday with a promise to continue engaging with concerned countries towards finding a long-term solution to their plight.
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At a time of global challenge and uncertainty, a partnership between the United Nations and regional bodies remains indispensable, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered government lockdowns, collapsed consumer demand, and disrupted imports of raw materials, battering the Asia Pacific garment industry especially hard, according to a new report released on Wednesday by the (...)
While perpetrators of rape and other forms of sexual violence must be held accountable, capital punishment and torture are not the answer, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday.
Bachelet has issued a statement (...)
The CEO of the Royal Commission for Jubail Eng. Mustafa bin Mohammed Al-Mahdi met today at the Commission's headquarters Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr. Mohammad Javed Patwary and his accompanying delegation.
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Emerging market (EM) sovereigns will suffer long-lasting revenue losses due to the coronavirus crisis, with governments' ability to implement and enforce effective revenue-raising measures set to be a key credit driver over the coming years, Moody's (...)
Bangladesh's 2016 energy plan showed some 20 gigawatts (GW) of coal power capacity to be developed in the next two decades. Now, the government is scaling back the coal-drive dramatically and capacity will peak at 7.3 GW in 2025, a Rystad Energy (...)
Al Burj beat Pepsi Deccan Knight by 18 runs to clinch the CSG Sixes 90th Saudi Nation Day Cup, sponsored by Centre Systems Group (CSG) and organized by Jeddah Cricket Association. This is the second JCA tournament after resumption of cricket (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) delivered yesterday medical aid to the Republic of Bangladesh to combat the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The aid included 200,000 pieces of N95 masks, 200,000 pieces of medical masks, 15,000 (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued providing humanitarian aid to people affected by floods in Sudan, as a part of the airlift directed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
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Jazeera Airways Sunday announced the launch of service to the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, offering direct flights between Kuwait and Dhaka as well as transit flights to cities in the Middle East.
Served on the A320neo aircraft, the airline will (...)
ABU DHABI — Expats' remittances from the United Arab Emirates amounted to 79.6 billion dirhams ($21.7 billion approximately) in the first half of 2020 despite the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures released by the (...)
RIYADH — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) signed on Wednesday an agreement with Al-Basar International Foundation to implement programs to combat blindness in eight countries for the year 2020-2021.
The agreement was (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed today an agreement with Al-Basar International Foundation to implement fighting blindness programs in eight countries, for the year 2020-2021.
The agreement was co-signed by KSrelief's (...)
Bilateral cooperation is the only way to effectively resolve the repatriation issue between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the Minister of the Office of the State Counsellor of Myanmar, told the UN General Assembly.
Speaking at the UN Assembly's annual (...)
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen received here today Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr. Mohammad Javed Patwary, who presented his credentials as a permanent (...)
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh has called for stronger international action to help Rohingya refugees in the country to return to neighboring Myanmar.
Bangladesh is hosting more than one million Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority community who are (...)
The Zayed Sustainability Prize has announced that solar-powered lighting solutions developed by one of its previous winners have been installed in the Egyptian village of Habisha, in the Asyut Governorate — as the latest deployment from the (...)
The office of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in Bangladesh has implemented a project of digging 62 wells out of 159 wells that will be drilled by the office during 2020. The wells are distributed in several remote areas where potable (...)
Dozens of Rohingya refugees are believed to have died in the Andaman sea after spending more than 200 days afloat, owing to a "collective unwillingness" of countries to take them in, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
The refugees, numbering about (...)
Like many other sectors, the recruitment agency sector has been immensely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Various factors have contributed to the forced closure of many recruitment agencies, local media reports said.
The head of the Kuwaiti (...)
Malaysia's health authorities reported 62 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the sharpest spike since early June, just as the government began barring long-term immigration pass holders from countries with high infection numbers, Reuters (...)
Ministers and officials from the public sector gathered to discuss and debate the cooperation required to kickstart manufacturing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a globally available vaccine, and balancing the benefits of fourth industrial (...)
A suspected gas explosion tore through a Bangladesh mosque killing at least 12 people while dozens suffered life-threatening burns, police said on Saturday.
Worshipers were at Friday evening prayers when the blast sent a ball of flames through the (...)
MANILA — The labor attaché of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Republic of the Philippines, Muhammad Bin Obaidullah Al-Mutairi, has started his work as the first labor attaché to the country.
The Kingdom's ambassador to the Philippines Dr. (...)
