PBBM SPEECH DURING RICE DISTRIBUTION TAGUIG

PBBM SPEECH DURING RICE DISTRIBUTION TAGUIG

ADMIN'S GOAL. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. delivers a speech during the distribution of sacks of premium quality rice to beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in Taguig City on Wednesday (Oct. 4, 2023). Marcos said he is focused on ensuring food security and stabilizing the prices of agricultural commodities. (PNA photo by Joan Bondoc)

GLOBALink | Bangladesh's smartphone city gathers Chinese manufacturers

STORY: Bangladesh's smartphone city gathers Chinese manufacturers DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: various of the factory SOUNDBITE 1 (Bengali): MOSAMMAT KAMRUNNAHAR, Technician, Quality section of Transsion BangladeshSOUNDBITE 2 (Bengali): SHIRINA, Final Quality ControllerSOUNDBITE 3 (English): WILLY CUI, General Manager of Transsion BangladeshSOUNDBITE 4 (Bengali): NAZMUL HAQUE, Factory Senior Manager for HR Admin STORYLINE: Bangladesh's Gazipur is dubbed the smartphone city in the country. Located on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, it was once famous for its textile manufacturing industry. Today, it gathers many local and foreign companies including leading Chinese manufacturers such as Transsion and Xiaomi, employing thousands of workers. Transsion started its journey in Bangladesh in 2017. As the second largest player in the smartphone market in Bangladesh, it owns three mobile phone brands -- itel, TECNO and Infinix. It also

Indian medical orderlies assisting with wounded

Indian medical orderlies assisting with wounded

Photograph of Indian medical orderlies assisting with wounded from the Battle of the Admin Box, February 1944. Part of a collection of official photographs from Middle and Far East, World War Two (1939-1945). Collected by Maj Gen (later Lt Gen) Sir Frank Walter Messervy. The Battle of the Admin Box took place on the Southern Front of the Burma theatre in February 1944. The 5th and 7th Indian Divisions suffered over 7900 casualties, but successfully resisted Japanese attacks for the first time in the campaign. In doing so they pioneered methods which would lead to further Allied victories over the following year. Date: 1944

School apologizes for admin. error that led to student's suicide

School apologizes for admin. error that led to student's suicide

Hiroshi Sakamoto (far R), the principal of a junior high school in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture, meets with reporters on March 9, 2016. Earlier in the day, Sakamoto apologized to the entire student body for the school's refusal to support a graduating student's high school entrance application due to an error in its records that led to the boy's suicide in December 2015 and for lying about the reason behind his death. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

ASEAN foreign ministers tackle S. China Sea, Trump admin in retreat

ASEAN foreign ministers tackle S. China Sea, Trump admin in retreat

Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay speaks at a news conference in the central Philippine resort Boracay Island on Feb. 21, 2017, after chairing a one-day meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo