The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official told Xinhua that Bangladesh earned a total of 31,790 million U.S. dollars from exports during July-May, compared to
30,664 million U.S. dollars in the same period of the previous year.
He said Bangladesh shipped goods worth 3.06 billion U.S. dollars in May, the 11th month of the current fiscal year 2016-17 (July 2016-June 2017), which was
about 1.39 percent higher than the same month a year ago.
The export income, however, fell short of the target of 33.35 billion U.S. dollars for the July-May period by 4.68 percent, said the official who preferred
to be unnamed.
Bangladesh set its export target in 2016-17 fiscal year at 37 billion U.S. dollars, including 30.37 billion U.S. dollars from ready-made garment products,
the EPB data showed.
In the July-May period, according to the official, Bangladesh earned 25.62 billion U.S. dollars from garment exports with knitted items such as T-shirts
and woven items such as jeans rising about 2 percent.
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WELLINGTON, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Penguins are much older than previously thought and their evolution probably dates back to dinosaur times, according to
a study of a giant ancient penguin fossil found in New Zealand.
The fossilized leg and toe bones found on the east of the South Island came from a huge penguin thought to be about 150 centimeters tall, the
Christchurch-based Canterbury Museum announced Friday.
The new find, held at the museum, was one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world, dating back to 61 million years ago.
The bones differed substantially from previous penguin finds of a similar age and showed that the variety of Palaeocene penguins, living between 66 million
and 56 million years ago, was greater than previously thought.
""Penguins had reached enormous proportions early on in their evolutionary history and were already more diverse 60 million years ago than we had
previously assumed,"" said research leader Dr. Gerald Mayr of Germany's
Senckenberg Research Institute.
""This diversity indicates that penguins probably evolved during the age of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago,"" Mayr said in a statement.
The fossil was found in the Canterbury region's Waipara River, which was renowned for its rare but well preserved bird fossils deposited only 4 million
years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, said museum senior curator
Professor Paul Scofield.
""We have found turtles, many species of shark, giant fish, two types of flying birds and two species of a penguin-like bird named Waimanu, considered to
be the oldest fossil of any group of birds living today,"" Scofield said in the
statement.
""Until now it had been assumed that Waimanu was the only penguin alive during this time.""
Research curator Dr. Vanesa De Pietri said the fossilized lower leg bone was very different from that of Waimanu, both in size and in anatomical detail.
""Looking at this and the toe bones of the newly-discovered penguin we think it also walked differently from the cormorant-like gait of Waimanu. The larger
penguin was already waddling like the penguins we see today,"" De Pietri said in
the statement.
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BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Following is a list of top international sports news selected by Xinhua News Agency (in time order):
- Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner", was charged with murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day
The double amputee, who has admitted to killing Reeva Steenkamp but denied murder, will go on trial in March 2014.
- The 2013 Boston Marathon on April 15 was hit by a pair of explosions at the Boylston Street finish line, which killed three people including Chinese student
Lu Lingzi and injured hundreds more.
- Alex Ferguson, the father of the modern Manchester United and the most successful manager in British football history, stepped down on May 19 after 26
and a half record-breaking years. The 71-year-old Ferguson has led Manchester
United to 38 titles including 13 Premier Leagues, two European Champions League,
five FA Cups and four League Cups.
One day earlier, former United star David Beckham officially retired after helping French club PSG to their first league title since 1994 and winning a
championship in a fourth different league after England, Spain and the United
States.
- Brazil beat Spain 3-0 on June 30 to win their third straight FIFA Confederations Cup, ending a 29-game winning streak by the world and European
champions.
- Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva secured her place in the pantheon of track and field greats by winning a third world pole vault title on home soil at the World
Athletics Championships on Aug. 13 and then announced to take a break from the
sport to be a mother.
- Thomas Bach was elected as the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ninth president on the final day of the 125th IOC Session on Sept. 10. Earlier,
wrestling was voted back into the Olympic program and Tokyo won the bid to host
the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
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