Bangladesh plans to build its first satellite

(AP) -- Bangladesh has lifted a weeklong ban on the social networking website Facebook imposed for a page urging people to draw images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, an official said Sunday.

The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark -- the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday.

India's Tata Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, will go on sale in Bangladesh on Saturday -- but with a price tag nearly triple what it is at home.

New York's Sirius Satellite Radio will build a new satellite together with Space Systems/Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications.

Japan's JSAT said Monday it had signed a contract for the launch of a new television satellite next year.

China on Sunday launched its eighth satellite orbiter as part of its navigation and positioning network, state media reported.

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