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Bangladesh shuts down mobile services along Indian border
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has ordered telecom operators to shut down mobile services along the border with India, citing security concerns. Read more…
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ZEE5 takes Bangladeshi entertainment to global audiences
ZEE5, the largest global streaming platform for South Asians and beyond, announced its plans to take Bangladeshi entertainment content to global audiences. Read more…
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Bangladesh files suit against Philippines bank over cyber-heists
Bangladesh files lawsuit in a U.S. court against Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) over its role in one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists. Read more…
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Facebook, Twitter remove accounts before Bangladesh elections
DHAKA (Reuters) – Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday they had removed accounts and fake news pages linked to the Bangladesh government which had posted anti-opposition content, days ahead of an election in the South Read more…
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RCBC branch manager faces charges of laundering cyber heist funds
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine prosecutors have recommended the filing of charges against a former RCBC bank manager for her part in laundering tens of millions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank last year, but Read more…
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Huawei and Banglalink cover rural areas with Butterfly sites
Huawei Technologies and Banglalink have jointly deployed Huawei’s Butterfly Site solution to profitably connect the unconnected in rural areas. Huawei says the solution helped Banglalink optimize the TCO structure of rural sites and resolve the Read more…
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More evidence North Korea linked to Bangladesh heist – Kaspersky
(Reuters) – Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab on Monday said it had obtained digital evidence that bolsters suspicions by some researchers that North Korea was involved in last year’s $81 million cyber heist of the Read more…
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US may accuse North Korea of that $81 million Bangladesh Bank cyberheist: WSJ
NEW YORK (Reuters) – US prosecutors are building potential cases that would accuse North Korea of directing the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Read more…
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Nokia to modernize Cambodia’s Cellcard from RAN to backend
Nokia has struck a deal to expand and modernize Cambodian operator Cellcard’s 3G and LTE network to help it meet surging mobile broadband demand. Cellcard initially launched LTE services in Phnom Penh in 2015 and Read more…
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Mobile will boost Bangladesh economy to $17 billion by 2020: GSMA
Mobile technologies and services in Bangladesh generated $13 billion of economic value in 2015, and will generate $17 billion by 2020, according to a new GSMA Intelligence study evaluating the impact of mobile on the Read more…