For the first time, 239 Bangladeshis flew to Uzbekistan yesterday for work. The group left in a special flight of Uzbekistan Air at 10:30am from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), AHM ... ( read original story ...)
Suu Kyi forecast to triumph in virus-hit Myanmar election
Myanmar heads to the polls Sunday for a vote expected to return to power the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains a hero at home in spite of a reputation abroad shattered by the Rohingya crisis ... ( read original story ...)
‘Spreading like wildfire’: Facebook fights hate speech, misinformation before Myanmar poll
In Myanmar, the stakes for Facebook are particularly high after previous accusations it helped incite genocide. Half of Myanmar's 53 million people use Facebook, which for many is synonymous with the ... ( read original story ...)
Dealing with Trump presidency nemesis Iran won’t be ‘quick, easy’ for Biden
When reality TV star Donald Trump took office he quickly cast Iran as a main villain of his presidency - ultimately abandoning a landmark deal aimed at stopping Tehran from developing nuclear weapons ... ( read original story ...)
Turkey’s Erdogan ousts central bank governor after steep lira slide
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan fired central bank governor Murat Uysal on Saturday and replaced him with ex-finance minister Naci Agbal, acting after a 30% plunge in the lira currency's value to ... ( read original story ...)
As Kamala D. Harris breaks barriers, India celebrates
On the road to making history, Kamala D. Harris paused for a call to India. Early Thursday in New Delhi, her uncle Gopalan Balachandran got a message that his niece wanted to speak with him. Soon ... ( read original story ...)
India’s coronavirus cases reach 8.5 million – health ministry
India recorded 50,356 new cases of the novel coronavirus, taking its total to 8.46 million, data from the health ministry showed on Saturday. ( read original story ...)
China touts success in controlling Covid-19 pandemic
"They have done an amazing job of controlling the virus," said Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health at the University of Washington. ( read original story ...)
China unlikely to find Biden a soft touch
In his unsuccessful campaign for re-election, President Donald Trump repeatedly warned that a victory for Joe Biden would be a win for China and that Beijing would "own America." ... ( read original story ...)
China sends ‘world’s first 6G’ test satellite into orbit
China has successfully launched what has been described as "the world's first 6G satellite" into space to test the technology. It went into orbit along with 12 other satellites from the Taiyuan ... ( read original story ...)