Abdus SobhanTHERE are irrefutable examples to show why of all economic resources, human resources needs to be counted as one that can be of the greatest value for a country to climb up the ladder of economic growth and development....
Amy Kazmin from BangkokIN the dilapidated former canteen of Thailand's Wat Si Sutharam School, about 20 Burmese children -- aged five to 15 -- sit on benches, carefully copying the first letter of the Thai alphabet in lined notebooks. Among...
THE government has once more extended the time for the garment owners who are yet to implement minimum wage for their workers. This time, it can be expected that the owners will meet the legitimate demands of their workers and...
SOMETIME ago, reports appeared in the country's media about a record number of teachers from the country's highest seats of learning, who have not returned after the conclusion of their foreign scholarship programmes and have stayed abroad with employment. There...
Air Vice Marshal(Retd.) M. Rafiqul Islam, NDU, pscTHE second half of the last century has witnessed democracy sweeping the world. Autocratic governments, dictatorships and kingships have slowly given way to democratic rule. In the subcontinent, the British raj came to...
Md. Saidul IslamONE of the most conspicuous trends in Bangladesh politics before 1/11 was broadly its bifurcation into two distinct camps: the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led coalition with right wing nationalist and Islamic political parties, and the Bangladesh Awami League...
Susan AaronsonCHINA is fast becoming the behemoth of the global economy; it already produces one-quarter of global production. But China's market clout is not matched by its governance prowess. The world's political and economic stability is threatened by the Chinese...
Enayet Rasul Magistrate Rokanadowla has been making headlines with actions such as detecting mangoes sprayed with calcium carbide for artificial ripening and killing fishes bred in sewer lagoons. But are these on and off actions, here and there, now and...
Tadahiro Ohkoshi talks to Motoo Noguchi, one of the international judgesAs a human, I asked how such a courteous, gentle people could commit such hideous atrocities. And as a lawyer, I found it astounding that despite the heinous nature of...
Dipanwita Roy It was a rainy afternoon when Nasima's fiancé, Masud, had been at their Narayanganj residence when all but Nasima went to attend a weeding ceremony in the town. They had a long chat in a closed room and...
Syed Fattahul AlimIs there after all a glimmer of hope about peace in Palestine and the prospect for a Palestinian state? The question of prospect or hope arises here because this is the first time in history that government delegates...
Taro IgarashiAs both an architectural historian and practicing architect, Terunobu Fujimori was an ideal choice for commissioner of the Japanese pavilion at the 10th Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition held late last year. The event is the world's largest regular international...
Baby Vandir Manjila Begum hardly passes a day when her husband does not torture her. Manjila's husband is unhappy as she gave birth to three daughters in a row. Manjila, now in her mid-30s, married a fellow-villager, Hasan, of Gayghar...
Thomas HazlettThe vaunted digital television transition is under way. It offers to upgrade broadcast television picture quality. But high definition is mostly window-dressing. Indeed, television advertisers will not pay broadcasters much more for HD audiences, either because viewers watch on...
Hugh Williamson in Berlin Berlin is considering lifting some restrictions on workers from eastern Europe taking jobs in Germany, in the latest sign that the upturn in Europe's largest economy is causing a skills shortage. Germany's ban on workers from...
Frances Williams in Geneva A US claim that Airbus, the European aircraft maker, received government assistance worth more than $200bn was dismissed on Tuesday by European Union trade officials as "ridiculous and absurd".Brussels said the US made the claim in...
Paul J Davies and Gillian TettInvestors in European and US credit markets accelerated their flight from risk last Wednesday as the turmoil from the US mortgage markets continued to spill over into other asset classes. The change in sentiment, which...
Mure Dickie in BeijingChina has promised to respond regularly and in detail to European complaints about potentially dangerous exported products after previously failing to live up to a commitment to do so, the EU's consumer safety chief said recently.On a...
Scheherazade Daneshkhu and James Blitz in LondonBritain will on Wednesday signal that it is not prepared to see the recent controversies over the increasing power of overseas state-backed investors used as a pretext for a new wave of protectionism.In his...
Zofeen EbrahimAs Superintendent Nusrat Hussain Mangan of Central Prison in the southern port city of Karachi spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how to raise money to save the life of one inmate, just one of 107 on his...
Neena BhandariMale circumcision could prevent millions of new HIV infections a year, delegates at the 4th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention were told here on Tuesday. Over 45 observational studies, three clinical trials and...
Tom PlateClichés can aid in understanding complexity. Consider the always-helpful cliché that every coin has two sides. So, in this spirit of the obvious, let us for once look at the other side of the coin regarding the constant drumbeat...
Damakant JayshiA republican wave that swept King Gyanendra out of power last year continues to blow strongly through Nepal.Three times in the past two weeks, the king was put to great embarrassment. His highly publicised three-day, diamond jubilee birthday celebrations...
In what is seen as the first fully-owned Malaysian company to penetrate the tough Indian power sector, Asian Gateways Construction Sdn Bhd (AGC) has secured a 30-year contract to supply power. The project is expected to generate about RM1.028 billion...
MOJAVE July 27 (Agencies): Three workers were killed and three others were badly hurt Thursday afternoon in an explosion on the edge of Kern County's Mojave airport during the test of a propellant system for a pioneering private spaceship.The blast...
KANDAHAR, July 27 (AFP): NATO and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban insurgents and called in airstrikes, killing at least 50 suspected militants and dozens of civilians, local officials and villagers said Friday. The fighting started Thursday night in the village...
Hundreds of hardline Islamist activists protested in the centre of Islamabad Friday as the government of General Pervez Musharraf re-opened the controversial Taliban-style Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, for the first time since it was stormed by the military earlier...
NEW YORK, July 27 (AFP): A US federal judge Thursday ruled that a small town's efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants were unconstitutional, in a blow to similar laws adopted across much of the United States. Judge James Munley...
NEW YORK, July 27 (PTI): More than one million people in Nepal are facing food shortage as a series of natural disasters have damaged the crops in the country. Prolonged droughts, hail storms and floods in most productive areas has...
GUWAHATI, India, July 27 (AFP): Bhutan's prime minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk and six cabinet ministers resigned on Thursday to contest the kingdom's first elections designed to bring democracy, state television said. "I on behalf of six other ministers submitted our...
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