World Raymen celebrates 11th founding anniversary

DHAKA, March 29 (NsNewsWire) —  The World Raymen has observed  its 11th founding anniversary with a call to serve more people irrespective of cast, color, sex and religion in the coming days. The  anniversary ceremony was held  in the city’s ICMAB auditorium on Thursday. During the ceremony, members  discussed Raymen activities and its future plans […]

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Bangladesh: The potential of community radio

While many radio stations in Bangladesh produce unprofessional or politically one-sided reports, community radio stations could become the ones providing reliable local information. DW Akademie is there to support them. In a report on a health station listeners can hear chickens clucking in the background. They can hear meat sizzling on a street stand in […]

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GREEN CLIMATE FUND ACCREDITS ADB TO TAP KEY FINANCE FOR ASIA-PACIFIC

  GREEN CLIMATE FUND ACCREDITS ADB TO TAP KEY FINANCE FOR ASIA-PACIFIC MANILA, PHILIPPINES (27 March 2015) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has become the first multilateral development bank accredited to receive financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for projects to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in its developing member countries. The […]

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Singapore’s Lee seen as an inspiration for modern China

BEIJING — Chinese leaders admired modern Singapore’s founder Lee Kuan Yew for his toughness, economic pragmatism and insistence on respect for authority. In many ways, Lee’s model of “Asian values,” combining authoritarianism and economic planning, became China’s own blueprint for modernity. Most significantly, late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping looked to Singapore, with its ethnic Chinese […]

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9 people burnt ahead of Bangladesh opposition’s fresh strike

DHAKA, March 22 (Xinhua) — At least nine people sustained burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack in southwestern Bangladesh before an opposition-called strike, police said on Sunday. A police officer, who declined to be unnamed, said miscreants hurled petrol bombs at the truck  in Magura district in southwestern Bangladesh, leaving nine people, including its […]

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Bangladesh tea prices fall despite thin supplies amid unrest

March 19 (Reuters) – Tea prices in Bangladesh fell sharply for a second straight week at the weekly auction on Wednesday on subdued demand from local buyers despite a drop in supplies amid political unrest. Bangladesh has been racked by political unrest since anti-government protests turned violent early this year over a disputed election a […]

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Google doodle celebrates India-Bangladesh World Cup quarterfinal

The doodle features batsmen with the flags of both the South Asian neighbours in the background. Google released a doodle on the eve of the India-Bangladesh Cricket World Cup quarterfinal match at Melbourne. The doodle features batsmen with the flags of both the South Asian neighbours in the background with the caption, “It’s India v […]

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Corruption threatens to implode Bangladesh

by M.G. Quibria Is Bangladesh once again on the verge of a political meltdown? With bomb explosions almost taking the life of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opposition leader Khaleda Zia charged with murder, and violent protests and arson sweeping the capital, the country seems poised at the edge of an abyss, reports http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/03/16/commentary/world-commentary/corruption-threatens-to-implode-bangladesh/#.VQXBWI7ov2Q. Of course, […]

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