United News of Bangladesh (UNB) is a

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...

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established in 1988.

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established UNB in the 1980s. It is the first fully digitized private wire service in South Asia. UNB has news exchange agreements with other major news agencies and networks, such as

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, UNI,

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, Kyodo,

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and Rompress. UNB is a member of international bodies such as

Organization of Asian and Pacific News Agencies The Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was previously known as the Organi ...

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, Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre and AsiaNet. UNB says it has correspondents and reporters in every district of Bangladesh, and serves 20 million people daily. Farid Hossain is the editor of UNB. He has previously served as the Bangladesh bureau chief of

. He also served as the Press Minister at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi on a two-year contract.

Areas of work

UNB provides comprehensive coverage of Bangladesh's news landscape, from politics to economics, development to disasters, and more. Additionally, their dedicated team is devoted to bringing exclusive coverage of cricket, the most beloved sport in Bangladesh and South Asia. Recently, UNB assembled a team to provide comprehensive multimedia coverage of events occurring in Bangladesh.

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* News agencies based in Bangladesh {{Journalism-stub