Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
A coalition of 12 human rights organizations have appealed in a letter to the UN under Secretary General Jean-Pierre Lacroix about the United Nations Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from its deployment, made public on January 20 through the Human Rights Watch (HRW) website.
Relying on Swiss IQAir’s information platform, the 2020 World Air Quality Report shows, South and East Asian locations emerge as the most polluted globally. Among them Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan share 49 of the 50 of the most polluted cities worldwide, Dhaka as second worst ranking, while wildfires and dust storms linked to increasing global temperatures as part of climate change as well as agricultural practices.
Despite Bangladesh government denies, but most Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar in
the country become the focal point of various crime. →
As released on November 5, the UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) in its 132 pages report for 2020-21, highlighted Bangladesh’s progress through ‘ensuring sustainable financing.’ →
A British journalist and former managing director of Ekushey TV and advisor to Jamuna TV in Bangladesh, Simon Dring (in the pic) has died on Friday in late news relayed while undergone for an abdominal surgery at a Romanian hospital while he suffered a massive heart attack and was not revived. →
