RIYADH, Nov 16 (Reuters): OPEC will back the fight against global warming at a heads of state meeting this weekend and affirm its commitment to "stable, competitive" oil prices, according to the summit's draft declaration.The group "shares the international community's...
FHM Humayan KabirThe finance adviser will sit with all stakeholders shortly to identify and resolve the hurdles impeding the implementation of foreign-funded projects under the Annual Development Programme (ADP).The adviser might sit separately with different ministries to review the progress...
Envoy, Musharraf hold face-to-face talks ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) (AP): Washington's No. 2 diplomat met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf Saturday after talking by phone overnight with one of the military ruler's chief rivals, a bit of face-to-face diplomacy aimed at convincing...
UNTAPPED resources, if harnessed in time, can bring immense benefit to national economies and peoples across national borders. The position of Bangladesh and its immediate neighbouring country, Myanmar, is a case in point. Both are geographically located to enjoy huge...
Syed Fattahul AlimDEVOLUTION of power to the local governments is an age-old demand of the political quarters as well as the intelligentsia. The governments that took office in the past were never short of goodwill to empower the local government...
M Azizur RahmanBANGLADESH economy has been slowing down due to a host of factors including falling investment, credit crunch, rising unemployment and inflation galloping to about 15 per cent under the impact of various unfavourable developments, particularly global trends. There...
Peter SmithAS oil prices have surged, so have those for coal. However, the rise has come at a bad time for Australia, the world's largest exporter of coal.Infrastructure bottlenecks, congested ports and freak weather have held back its exports even...
The country's networks of roads and highways have expanded a great deal over the last three decades. Compared to the pre-independence period, the network of highways all over the country has now become extensive. Especially, the road networks have much...
THERE is need to make the best possible use of scarce land in Bangladesh which is short of land or to optimise its uses under a comprehensive policy so that the need of land for various purposes can be met...
Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed concluding his two-part articleAUTONOMOUS Microcredit Apex/Wholesale Funds (MAFs) are a special kind of apex or second-tier funding institution that provides loans to "retail" microcredit programs (MCPs) for on-lending to borrowers. They receive their funds, at least initially,...
Iffat JarinIt was October 28, 2006. The country saw unprecedented political violence in the capital. A hartal was enforced. Clashes between police and the pickets were raging. Teargas was being used indiscriminately. During this anarchic situation, police hit Farjana Khan...
Mohammad Khairul AlamTeenage is a developmental stage in the life of a person marked by discovery and experimentation that comes with a myriad of physical and emotional changes. Sexual behaviour and drug abuse are often part of this exploration. During...
Syed Fattahul AlimSuperstition, bigotry, mysticism and cultism are not things of the past. Even in 21st century, people can be so bigoted that they believe that the world will come to an end on a particular date announced by their...
Reiner BurgerSurely this must be Italy .. The square is surrounded by four-storey Renaissance buildings: yellow, dusky-pink and pale-green facades with balconies and half-relief figures. In front of the old Rathsapotheke (town pharmacy) on the Untermarkt (Lower Market), young people...
Ripan Kumar BiswasIt was a beautiful sunny morning and I was waiting to cross the street at central park south and six Avenue, Manhattan, New York. A city bus moved in front of me was carrying a U.S. Marines ad:...
Hellen NdutaIn Kenya, children born out of wedlock may never get to know their fathers, courtesy a section of the country's Children's Act. In such cases, the Act absolves fathers of all parental responsibilities. Recently, a six-year-old girl in Nairobi...
By Lim Young-Rok Vice Finance MinisterThrough the inter-Korean summit, South and North Korea seized an opportunity to drastically develop their relations in the fields of politics, economy, society and culture.Among other things, summit agreements on economic cooperation projects laid the...
Before Nyima Cering, a 22- year-old folk dance lover from a western Tibet village, began dancing for tourists, he had worried that the ancestral dances of his village might have been on the verge of extinction. The village's traditional dance,...
Philip StephensPOLITICS these days is uncomfortable with inevitability. A certain future offends the idea that vibrant democracy depends on thrills, spills and, frequently, blood. Worse, it challenges the gnat-like attention span of 24-hour rolling news. There is a problem here...
Fiona HarveyWIND is the most mature of renewable energy technologies, apart from hydroelectricity and the burning of biomass. In recent years, the use of wind turbines to generate electricity has grown remarkably: by 25 per cent in 2007, according to...
Clive CooksonTHE world gained a new international organisation last month. Iter - which stands for International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor and also means "the way" in Latin - was formally established on October 24, with a mission that could hardly be...
SEVENTY-FIVE years ago on November 8, Franklin D. Rossevelt of New York achieved a sweeping victory over Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election.From time to time we hear assertions about FDR's limitations - that his was only a second-class...
Gerald CurtisTHE aborted agreement of Yasuo Fukuda, prime minister, an Ichiro Ozawa, Democratic party president, to have their parties form a grand coalition has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of making Japanese politics even more dysfunctional than it was before....
Al Makin from Heidelberg, GermanyWhat has often concerned me, and perhaps many other Indonesians, is the portrayal of Indonesia by the International Herald Tribune on October 29. The daily describes Indonesia as "the invisible giant of South East Asia". Whether...
Bradley PerrettSingapore's Tiger Airways will establish a franchisee airline with the South Korean city of Incheon, racing against rivals to set up in untapped markets and exploit the huge potential of no-frills aviation in Asia.The latest expansion move by the...
Karen ChampanMany universities aspire to be world-class and ranked highly, and those in Malaysia are no exception. IN the past, only institutions such as the four research universities have earned mention in the international league tables. But if a university...
FE ReportAt least 548 people were feared killed and thousands injured as a savage storm battered Thursday the country's costal areas, rendering hundreds of families homeless, unofficial sources said. However, provisional figures released by the food and disaster management ministry...
FE ReportThe devastating cyclone SIDR that slammed the Bangladesh coast Thursday night has killed at least 233 people and injured hundreds others, according to a rough estimate of the government.The government is yet to receive the actual death toll and...
FE ReportThe country experienced the worst-ever power blackout Friday following the shutdown of country's all power units resulting in the collapse of the National Power Grid (NPG).First, the NPG became inoperative at about 8:0am Friday following a technical fault caused...
FE Report Operations of mobile telecommunications and TV channels, including the state-run Bangladesh Television (BTV), faced a major setback Friday as the cyclone SIDR badly disrupted the country's power supply. The state-run BTV had to suspend its transmission for nearly...
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