Philip StephensONE of the reasons, probably the most important, why today's world is a confusing and chaotic place is our natural instinct to look at it through the prism of yesterday. The assumptions and preconceptions that made sense of the...
Mure Dickie in BeijingWHEN the final Harry Potter book goes on sale in India and China this (Saturday) morning, the maturing boy wizard's publishers will need their own magic to stave off attacks from pirates.India and China's vast populations mean...
A decent young man, who has just crossed his adolescence, sat beside me on board a public transport in Dhaka the other day. He was carrying a thick black bag. He kept it on his lap. He said he is...
Leaders of the Bangladesh Fruits, Vegetables and Allied Products Exporters Association (BFVAPEA) have submitted recently a list of demands to the government . The demands of the association are mainly in the area of air freighting. Fast and less costly...
Syed Fattahul Alim How far the war on terror declared by President George Bush of USA in the wake of September 11 is faring about six years after the cataclysm? The war that the terrorists brought on the American soil...
Zannatul Ferdous, The terms 'Governance' and 'Good Governance' are being increasingly used in development literature. GOVERNANCE nowadays turned into a central emerging discourse of development in Bangladesh like in other parts of the developing world. It has been around 35...
Enayet RasulBangladesh is a wonder. It is a wonder because of its small physical size but the sea of people living off such a small parcel of land. With only 55,126 square miles of land territories, Bangladesh is one of...
Dipanwita Roy Pagolnath Suri had fled to India in fear of life when the liberation war erupted in 1971. Suri saved himself but could not protect his land property."When I came back home after the independence, I found all my...
Anahi RamaA collection of letters, photos and personal effects belonging to Mexican artist couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo went on display in Mexico City Friday after 50 years of being hidden from view.The archive contains thousands of letters detailing...
Simon GardnerIn Tamil Tiger territory, youths like Rajathurai Ponnambalam are living in hiding to avoid being forcibly recruited by the rebels and sent to fight in a Sri Lankan civil war they don't believe in.Many residents Reuters spoke to during...
KABUL, July 20 (AFP): The Taliban claimed responsibility Friday for the kidnap of 18 South Korean Christians and two German nationals, and said they would only free the Germans if Berlin withdraws troops from Afghanistan. "The Taliban have kidnapped the...
BEITUNYA, (West Bank), July 20 (AFP) - Over 250 Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel were arriving in the occupied West Bank Friday in the biggest such releases in two years intended to bolster president Mahmud Abbas. The first two buses...
MIRANSHAH, (Pakistan), July 20 (AFP): A suicide bomber killed three civilians and a soldier at a check post in a Pakistani tribal area Friday, the latest in a wave of attacks across the country, security officials said. Meanwhile: China said...
MOSCOW, July 20 (AFP): Russia expelled four British diplomats Thursday in a row over a high-profile murder inquiry as President Vladimir Putin played down the spat with London as a "mini-crisis" that would be overcome. Russia also announced a ban...
BAGHDAD, July 20 (AFP) : US-led forces killed three suspected militants and detained 44 in a series of raids across Iraq on Friday, the military saidTroops killed two armed men and detained 16 in a raid to capture an alleged...
Airbus in fatal Brazil crash had fault in slowing device SAO PAULO, July 20: The Airbus 320 airplane that crashed and burned on landing in Brazil killing some 200 people was flying with a fault in the equipment meant to...
Gideon RachmanThe threat level in Britain is "critical". This means that a new terrorist attack could be imminent. Would-be car-bombers are said to be still at large. Iraq-style terror tactics have arrived.But the British public seems to be more worried...
Gideon RachmanAre we still scared of the Germans? Even asking that question in the corridors of the European Union is likely to provoke sorrow and incredulity. The conventional answer is: of course not! Fear of Germany is primitive and backward-looking....
Doug Cameron in Chicago and Kevin Done in LondonSir Richard Branson will be absent from next month's launch of Virgin America, an almost unheard of occurrence for the media-savvy entrepreneur, which highlights the sensitivity of overseas involvement in the US...
Michael Mackenzie and Saskia Scholtes in New YorkFears of further problems in the US mortgage industry and the broader economy flared on Tuesday, triggering a sell-off in credit markets as investors sought safe havens.Markets were rattled when Standard & Poor's,...
Ed Crooks in LondonThe US should adopt the toughest possible fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and join a global framework for managing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a Bush administration-commissioned study of the energy industry, led by the former...
Review by Harry Eyres If you imagine a cross between Thoreau's Walden and the later travel writings and novels of D.H. Lawrence, you might come close to the prophetic and personal intensity of Jay Griffiths' ecological odyssey. But then you...
Marwaan Macan-MarkarThailand's junta leader, Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is in danger of inviting comparisons with military strongmen in neighbouring Burma, where successive generals have refused to transfer power to a civilian administration for decades.Suspicions have been triggered by the vague language...
Marwaan Macan-MarkarThe global anti-tobacco movement has just armed itself with tough new language capable of clearing the air at workplaces, restaurants and bars of tobacco smoke.The breakthrough, secured at a week-long conference here, was endorsed by 146 developed and developing...
John JannaroneSingapore's unexpectedly fast economic expansion in the second quarter shows that this small Southeast Asian nation can flourish even when growth in a traditional mainstay, electronics manufacturing, is weak.On a seasonally adjusted and annualized basis, Singapore's gross domestic product...
Bipartisanship has come to Paris. Fantastic! No more storming of theBastille. No more May 1968. No more internecine political conflict between the Left and the Right. We are referring of course to the announcement that French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a...
Marwaan Macan-MarkarAs the Asian financial crisis struck 10 years ago, beginning in Thailand and then spreading rapidly to eight other economies in the region, the desperate call for help was answered from the West.In rode the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
Considerable amounts of foreign exchange drained off from Bangladesh as a large number of foreign nationals are working in various sectors of the country illegally, reports UNB quoting competent sources.According to the Board of Investment, the number of illegal foreigners...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe Bangladesh Bank (BB) has identified more than 1200 individuals and companies siphoning off millions of dollars by violating foreign exchange act, sources said.The government has already asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe such cases on a priority...
SM JahangirThe government will soon sign agreements with the selected bidders to pave the way for installing 10 small power units in the private sector.The state-run power distributing agencies have already issued letter of intent (LoI) in this connection to...
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