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We are lunching Beta Version of Website of Bangladesh Embassy in Manila

November 28, 2012 | Embassy Latest News

Bangladesh Embassy took new direction to have website. Main Purpose of this website is offering information about Consular Services which include downloadable file for Visa application, Passport Renewal form and other forms which need for foreigner and Bangladeshi here in Manila. Website also in

John Gomes new envoy to Philippines

November 28, 2012 | Embassy Latest News

  Maj. Gen. John Gomes Dhaka, Oct 3  – The government has appointed retired Major General John Gomes as the new Bangladesh Ambassador to the Philippines. He was commissioned in the Bangladesh Army as an infantry o

• Focus turns to Thai military, anti-government protesters tell them to pick sides

  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters in Thailand pinned their hopes on winning support from the powerful security forces on Thursday as they push to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and install an unelected administration. A small group of protesters scaled the walls into the grounds of Yingluck's Government House office on Thursday but soon left without a confrontation with police stationed there. Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy premier accused of murder during widespread 2010 protests, has asked police and military chiefs to meet him by Thursday evening and to choose their side in the latest crisis engulfing Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy. The politically powerful army has staged or attempted 18 coups in the past 80 years - including the ousting of Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, in 2006.

  
  
  
  

• US lawmakers dial up pressure on in-flight call plan

  US regulators girded for a vote Thursday which could allow in-flight phone calls, as debate heated up in Congress and elsewhere on the issue. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler, in comments prepared for a congressional hearing Thursday morning, defended his agency's moves on reforming what he called "an outdated rule" banning in-flight calls. "I understand the consternation caused by the thought of your onboard seatmate disturbing the flight making phone calls. But we are not the Federal Courtesy Commission.

  
  
  
  

• India's Supreme Court upholds anti-gay sex law

  NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court struck down a 2009 lower court decision to decriminalize homosexual conduct, dealing a blow Wednesday to gay activists who have fought for years for the chance to live openly in India's deeply conservative society.