December2018

As the year comes to a close, consumers in the Asia Pacific have flocked to popular e-commerce sites to maximize deals from hefty discounts, since the Singles’ Day in November to “12.12” and now to Christmas...

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday and fined $25 million on corruption charges that he says were politically motivated. The anti-corruption court in Islamabad said in its...

Indonesian military and rescue teams fanned out across a stretch of coastline on Monday, hoping to find survivors of a tsunami triggered by an underwater landslide from a volcano that has been erupting for months. Authorities...

Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges will receive a lifetime achievement award at January’s Golden Globes ceremony for his wide range of work, from Western “True Grit” to comedy “The Big Lebowski,” the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said...

Telenor Health signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Swisscontact recently at GP House, Bashundhara, Dhaka. Through this MoU, Telenor Health and Swisscontact are entering into a partnership to improve the increasing access to quality health...

Director Mizanur Rahman Aryan is set to enthrall the audience yet again with his new creation “Mon Mondire”. Mon Mondire will be released in Bioscope on 27 December, 2018. “Mon Mondire” is a Bioscope Original Web Film....

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the detention of Imphal based television anchor Kishore Chandra Wangkhem under the National Security Act (NSA) and demands his immediate release. However, the Assam based scribe’s body urges everyone,...

The soulful song ‘Sobar Nouka Chole Doyal Chole Na Amar Nao’ (God, while all ships cross the sea, mine has come to an endless halt) has recently been released on the YouTube channel ‘User BD’. “This song is about self-realization and...

Novartis announced an offer to acquire CellforCure from LFB. CellforCure, a French company, is one of the first and largest contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO) producing cell and gene therapies in Europe. Under the proposed...

Novartis announced that Susanne Schaffert, Ph.D., currently President, Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a Novartis company, has been appointed CEO Novartis Oncology. She will report to Vas Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis, and will join the Executive Committee on...