Bertil Lintner For Htet Tay Za, a 19-year-old member of Myanmar's elite who attends an exclusive and expensive international school in Singapore, life is often a party. A picture recently obtained by the Chiang Mai-based publication The Irrawaddy shows the...
Sanchita Sharma Mina Rahman, 35, has been on a diet of rice and boiled green papaya for about a year to stay fit and slim. But one day she collapsed and doctors told her that she was suffering from malnutrition...
Syed Fattahul AlimTurkey is a key ally of the USA as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). It is also an exception among the Muslim countries in that it recognises Israel as well as noncommittal about the...
Sagar Shabnam Kassilleya Rajbangshi, a 50-year-old woman of Tara village in Manikganj, was doing well with her husband and five children. That was until recently. Five years after she had her menopause. Kassilleye - not her real name - awoke...
Dusan Stojanovic Facing a possible loss of Kosovo, Serbian nationalists are re-igniting tensions in the Balkans, a region still reeling from brutal civil wars in the 1990s.They're sending out dark hints about coming to the aid of their Serb brethren...
Martin WolfEnergy security and climate change are two of the most significant challenges confronting humanity. What we see, in response, is the familiar capture of policymaking by well-organised special interests. A superb example is the flood of subsidies for biofuels....
Michael SkapinkerI occasionally speak to school students about journalism and they usually ask the same questions. Have you interviewed anyone famous? (Richard Branson and John Cleese seem to pass muster.) What do you do if there is no news? (There...
Philip StephensWe have been warned. Britain is full up. The present rate of population growth is unsustainable. The government must be shaken from its complacency. As an important committee of the House of Commons observes, life will become intolerable unless...
Jagdish BhagwatiTurn to the leading US newspapers these days and you will read about the "loss of nerve", even "loss of faith", in free trade by economists. Many write about free trade in funereal overtones. Yet all this hype reminds...
Michael HeathThe focus on having sons in Asian countries such as Vietnam, China, India and Nepal may fuel sexual violence and trafficking in women, the United Nations said in a report. ``Sex ratio imbalances only lead to far reaching imbalances...
Hideyuki Sano In a leafy Tokyo suburb, a landlord visits his tenant only to discover a skeleton inside the apartment. The tenant had died three years before.None of the neighbors had noticed the man was missing. His bank kept on...
Cherian Thomas and Nipa PiboontanasawatIndia and China may be forced to further restrict bank lending as declining U.S. interest rates prompt investors to pump record cash into the world's two fastest-growing economies. Reserve Bank of India Governor Yaga Venugopal Reddy,...
While the money-making and party-throwing opportunities of Halloween thrive across Asia, the festival also shines a spotlight on the region's profound relationship with the afterlife.From traditional markets to modern entertainment districts, major cities across Asia are looking to cash-in on...
M Shahid AlamOnce begun, the course of wars cannot always be foretold. Germany, Japan and Italy learnt this lesson the hard way. With some wisdom, the US and Israel could learn this lesson the easy wayIn January 2002, when President...
Base Paharkanchanpur emerged champions in the Bangladesh Air Force Inter-Base Kabaddi tournament beating Base Bashar by 29-28 points in a keenly-contested final at the Base Kurmitola ground in the city Thursday, reports UNB.Warrant Officer Zakir of Pharkanchanpur team was adjudged...
Saiful KaiserThe Bob Woolmer affair will just not go away. In this second round of 'investigation', a British forensic scientist said the traces of the pesticide cypermethrin found in Woolmer's blood sample could have been due to contamination at the...
Maria Petrakis, Gavin Finch and Michael JanofskyMike Savvides was a rising star at JPMorgan Chase & Co., or so he thought. Promoted to executive director in January and sent to run the bank's office in Greece, he found himself unemployed...
Beena SarwarWhen TV cameraman Arif Khan added to the list of over 140 people who died in the bombings that targeted the welcome procession for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on Oct. 18, it highlighted the many risks that journalists...
Tina Seeley and Matthew LeisingGoldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and U.S. futures exchanges are fighting efforts by Congress to give two regulators authority over the $4.2 trillion commodities market, a move they say will drive trading overseas. At issue...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday launched its Country Coopera-tion Strategy (CCS) 2008-2013 for Bangladesh to strengthen the capacity of the country's health system for long-term sustainable health improvement for all, reports UNB. WHO Regional Director for South East Asia...
KHULNA, Nov 1 (UNB): The passport-seekers have been facing various problems in getting passports at Khulna Regional Passport Office located outside the main city.Sources said the passport office started activities with 16 officials and employees on October 1, 1962 after...
NARSINGDI, Nov 1 (UNB): Four police officers of Narsingdi model thana and two others were accused in a murder case filed Thursday.Chief judicial magistrate Ataur Rahman admitted the case and ordered the district police authority for investigation. Morshed Rana, a...
BARISAL, Nov 1 (UNB): A court here Wednesday convicted a housewife and sentenced her to life term imprisonment for killing her husband in 2003.The convict is Nasima Begum (50) of Islampur village under Babuganj Upazila. The court also fined her...
Police, in separate drives across the country, arrested 1,119 persons on various charges during last 24 hours until 6:00 am Thursday, reports UNB.During the drives, 16 firearms, one bomb and 31 rounds of bullet were also recovered, said a handout.Besides,...
DU CorrespondentNorthern University Bangladesh (NUB) took a festive look as its teachers and students celebrated the fifth founding anniversary of the university Thursday.Marking the occasion, a daylong programme including the cake cutting ceremony and a grand rally was organised on...
FE ReportDr Sharif Muniruzzaman Shiraji, Assistant Prof of Civil Engineering Department of World University of Bangladesh (WUB), has been selected as JSPS fellow for two years at the Saitama University in Japan.He is the only teacher from the private universities...
FARIDPUR, Nov 1 (UNB): Declaration of 10 daily, weekly and monthly newspapers, published from the district, have been cancelled for irregular publication.The deputy commissioner of the district had issued the cancelling order of the declaration.The newspapers are: Dainik Ganosanghati, biweekly...
Unknown gangsters murdered a teenage girl after rape at Dakpara at Keraniganj thana Wednesday night, reports UNB. Police Thursday recovered the body of the victim, aged around (15) from the house owned by Mansur Member.It is suspected that the girl...
FE ReportAmerican International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) is holding a job fair on its campus in the city.The fair beginning from October 30 will continue until November 3.A total of 60 national and multinational business organisations are taking part in the fair.At...
FE ReportA kaleidoscope of earthen, rustic colours on evergreen cotton by designer Bibi Russel of Bangladesh left fashion aficionados in Bangalore asking for more in the fashion extravaganza recently in Hayward's Black International Men's Fashion Fair (HBIMFF). "Sapne Bunte Haat"...
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