August2018

Telenor Health and Bank Asia joined hands to provide digital healthcare services to the unbanked community through the state-of-the-art Agent Banking network of the Bank. An agreement to this effect has been signed recently between the...

Petroleum Jelly Vaseline endows the Hajj pilgrims with the skincare during their pilgrimage to attain spiritual purity. The offer comes from a campaign jointly organized by Biman Bangladesh and Unilever brand Vaseline. Under the campaign titled...

With expertise rooted in personal experience, people who have had mental health problems could offer support, encouragement and a model for recovery, helping reduce readmission rates. Care from peer support workers with lived experience of mental...

Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment with Canada after Ottawa urged Riyadh to free arrested civil society activists, in the top oil exporter’s latest retort to Western criticism of its human rights record. The Gulf...

An assassination attempt and protest in Azerbaijan’s second city have sent a warning to the ruling elite that discontent is simmering in the tightly controlled, oil-producing state. Police have arrested a local man over the attack...

Scenes of destruction greeted rescue workers across Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok on Monday, after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 killed at least 98 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful...

North Korean state media on Monday urged the United States to drop sanctions, as South Korea said it was investigating nine cases of coal shipments that potentially violated U.N. resolutions. Pyongyang had demonstrated good faith by...

Shakira and Elton John played one-off concerts in Lebanon in recent months but the summer music festivals that helped make the country a cultural lodestar for the Arab world are struggling. In the 1960s and 1970s,...

Bangladesh’s cabinet on Monday will consider capital punishment for traffic accident deaths, a law ministry official said, as tens of thousands of students protested for a ninth day over the deaths of two teenagers killed by...

Iraq’s election commission has completed a manual recount of votes from a parliamentary election held in May after the process was cut short in Baghdad, state television said on Monday. The recount was ordered by parliament...