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Bangladesh shows interest in contributing to Kyrgyzstan's pharmaceutical sector
Bangladesh has shown interest to contribute to the pharmaceutical sector of Kyrgyzstan and offered the service of its "skilled human resources" in the ICT sector.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen met his Kyrgyz counterpart Jeenbek Kulubaev on the sidelines of the 6th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), a multi-national forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security and stability in Asia, Kazakhstan's Astana.
They hoped that their bilateral trade and investment would continue to grow and showed interest in the exchange of trade delegations between the two countries.
The ministers agreed to facilitate communication and interaction between the businesses as well as the commerce or trade ministries of the two countries.
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Jeenbek Kulubaev invited Bangladeshi businessmen to invest in his country's textile and apparel industry.
Both ministers congratulated each other for the election of their respective countries into the UN Human Rights Council.
They expressed satisfaction that Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan share common views and cooperate with each other on many international issues as members of UN, OIC and NAM.
Bangabandhu Volleyball: Nepal, Kyrgyzstan arrive in capital
Two foreign teams -- Nepal and Kyrgyzstan --arrived here on Monday to join the six-nation Bangabandhu Asian Central Zone Challenge Cup Volleyball Championship, beginning on Thursday.
Six participating countries -- Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and host Bangladesh — will compete in the six-day meet in men’s and women’s sections at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in Mirpur.
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All the six teams will compete in the women’s section while five teams, except Kyrgyzstan, will participate in the men’s section of the meet.
Bangladesh Men’s team finished runners-up in the championship held in Dhaka in 2018 while Bangladesh Women’s team was placed 4th in the next year’s meet.
Bangladesh to play Kyrgyzstan U-23 football team in Bishkek on Thursday
Bangladesh national football team will play a friendly match against hosts Kyrgyzstan U-23 side on Thursday at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
The match will kicks-off at 8:3O pm ( BST).
Bangladesh team will play the match as part of their preparation for the SAFF Championship to be held in the Maldives next month.
Ahead of the Thursday's match, Bangladesh completed their practices at the Sports City Field in Bishkek Wednesday morning.
Read: Expatriate booters Rahbar, Tahmid join practice session in Kyrgyzstan
All Bangladeshi players are physically sound and fit and the team have no injury problems.
Earlier, Bangladesh national side completed their Three Nations Cup Football' 2021 engagement in Kyrgyzstan losing both the matches.
Hosts Kyrgyzstan clinched Three Nations Cup title with an all-win record outplaying Bangladesh by 4-1 goals on Tuesday after beating Palestine by 1-0.
Bangladesh conceded 0-2 goals defeat against Palestine in their first match last Sunday.
Three Nations Football: Hosts take the title in a canter as Bangladesh out of their depth
Bangladesh national football team suffered 2nd consecutive defeat in the Three Nations Cup Football' 2021 losing to hosts Kyrgyzstan by 1-4 goals at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Tuesday.
With the day's 2nd successive victory, after beating Palestine 1-0 in the opening match, hosts Kyrgyzstan clinched the three nations cup title.
Touring Bangladesh, which conceded a defeat against Palestine in their first match last Sunday, today (Tuesday) went down by 0-2 goals in the first half.
President of Kyrgyzstan Republic Sodyr Nurgojoevich Japarov witnessed the day's match as chief guest.
Three Nations Cup: Bangladesh lose 0-2 to Palestine
Bangladesh national football team conceded a 0-2 defeat against Palestine in their first match of the Three Nations Cup 2021 in Kyrgyzstan Sunday night.
Palestine put Bangladesh down by one goal in the first half at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
Layth Kharoub put Palestine ahead in the 33rd minute (1-0); MA Yaser added one more in the 47th minute (2-0).
Three Nation Football: Bangladesh start tough campaign against Palestine tomorrow
Bangladesh national football team, now in Kyrgyzstan, will kick off their campaign in the Three Nations Cup 2021 by taking on Palestine in Bishkek on Sunday.
The match kicks-off at 8:30 pm Bangladesh Standard Time at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in the Kyrgyz capital.
Going by the latest FIFA rankings, 186th-ranked Bangladesh will have a tough time competing with 96th-ranked Kyrgyzstan and 102nd-ranked Palestine.
English Head Coach Jamie Day's Bangladesh will play their 2nd match on September 7 (Tuesday) against hosts Kyrgyzstan, who are in a good position having beaten Palestine 1-0 in the tournament's opening match on Thursday.
Besides, Bangladesh team will also play a friendly match against hosts Kyrgyzstan U-23 side on September 9 as part of their preparation for the SAFF Championship to be held in Maldives next month (October).
Read: Expatriate booters Rahbar, Tahmid join practice session in Kyrgyzstan
Prior to Sunday's match, Bangladesh team had an one-hour official training session at the match venue from 10 am to 11 am on Saturday.
This time Bangladesh included two fresh expatriate booters in the squad-- forward Rahbar Wahed Khan from Canada and medio Nayb Md Tahmidul Islam from France in addition to Denmark-born national captain Jamal Bhuiyan and Finland-born Tariq Kazi.
Ahead of Sunday's match, Bangladesh captain Jamal Bhuiyan said "Tomorrow is our first match against Palestine, we watched the Kyrgyzstan-Palestine match and discussed about our strategy with the coach. We are fully fit and ready to face Palestine."
"We have to improve our performance, we practiced how to play the match, we will try a new system tomorrow, if it will click then we will continue it," he added
Meanwhile, President of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin, accompanied by FIFA council member, BFF and AFC member Mahfuza Akhter Kiron and BFF general secretary Abu Nayem Sohag, are also now in Bishkek to encourage the booters.
BFF President Salahuddin in Kyrgyzstan to encourage national players
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) President Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin reached Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Thursday to encourage the Bangladesh national football team.
The BFF president, Mahfuza Akhter Kiron – FIFA council member, BFF and AFC member – and BFF General Secretary Abu Nayem Sohag landed in Kyrgyzstan at 1:10pm Bangladesh time.
The national team is now Bishkek to play the "Tri-nation Cup 2021" with Palestine and hosts Kyrgyzstan.
Jamie Day's Bangladesh team will face Palestine on September 5 before taking on hosts Kyrgyzstan on September 7 in the tri-nation cup.
Read: Expatriate booters Rahbar, Tahmid join practice session in Kyrgyzstan
The touring Bangladesh team will also play a friendly match against hosts Kyrgyzstan U23 side on September 9 as part of their preparation for the SAFF Championship in the Maldives next October.
Earlier, the Bangladesh team started their practice session in Kyrgyzstan last Sunday at the Sports City Field in Kant city.
However, two new Bangladeshi-origin players of the team – forward Rahbar Wahed Khan from Canada and midfielder Nayb Md Tahmidul Islam from France – reached Bishkek last Monday and joined the national team's practice session.
Expatriate booters Rahbar, Tahmid join practice session in Kyrgyzstan
Two expatriate booters- Rahbar Wahed Khan of Canada and Nayb Md Tahmidul Islam of France- joined practice session of Bangladesh National Football team at the Sports City Field in Kant City, Kyrgyzstan on Monday.
The two Bangladesh-origin footballers—Canada- based forward Rahbar and France- based midfielder Tahmid -- reached Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek Sunday midnight and joined the national team's 2nd day's practice session that lasted for three hours.
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Earlier on Sunday, the English goal keeping coach of Bangladesh team joined the team in Bishkek.
Bangladesh team started their first practice session in Kyrgyzstan Sunday afternoon at the same venue ahead of the Tri-nation Cup Football' 2021 there also involving Palestine and Kyrgyzstan.
In an immediate reaction on Monday, Rahbar said, "I made the first practice with national team, training was great, all are cooperative and accommodating, looking for next training, hoping to play in the starting eleven. Please pray for me."
Tahmid said, “I made my first training with national team today (Monday) after reaching here, I was looking for a berth in the top eleven of the team after playing good football"
English Head Coach Jamie Day's Bangladesh team will face Palestine on September 5 before taking on hosts Kyrgyzstan on September 7 in the Tri-nation cup during the FIFA window.
READ: Booters complete first practice session in Kyrgyzstan
Touring Bangladesh team will also play a friendly match against hosts Kyrgyzstan U-23 side on September 9 as part of their preparation for the SAFF Championship to be held in Maldives next October.
The Bangladesh team which is staying in ART Hotel in Bishkek will also make their practices Tuesday morning at the same time and same venue.
All players of the Bangladesh team are in sound health.
Kyrgyzstan will get priority for Russian Covid-19 vaccine
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk, said the supply of a Russian COVID-19 vaccine to Kyrgyzstan will be considered a priority matter.
Turkey to export COVID-19 detection kits: minister
Turkey will export to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan locally-produced COVID-19 detection kits that can get results in 90-120 minutes, Turkish Health Minister said on Friday.