Members of the Bangladesh team pose for photograph after their win at the ABP Debating Championship-2017. Team IBA DU A, consisting of Rawnak Zaheen Wasi and Sajid Khandaker, from Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of the University of Dhaka, has won the Asian British Parliamentary (ABP) Debating Championship-2017.
The group was the first Bangladeshi team to win such contest.
Around 100 teams from 44 universities and nine countries participated in the prestigious event that took place in Krabi of Thailand from October 01 to October 06, according to a press release.
After six preliminary rounds of debate, top 24 teams qualified for the knockouts.
This year, alongside the champion team, another team from Bangladesh consisting of Asif Mehedi and Miraz Murshed Rahman from North South University, qualified for the knockouts and were also the semi-finalists.
The top four teams that were in the grand finale were from IBA-University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), International Islamic University (Malaysia) and Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines).
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