Shi Yuzhu | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
For an indication of Shi Yuzhu's ambition, one need look no further than the name of his company: Giant.An online game developer, Giant Interactive was founded just four years ago. Since then, Mr Shi has parlayed the success of its...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will take stern action against its leaders who would compete in the upcoming local government elections, going beyond the party decision of boycotting the voting, a party leader said.BNP acting office secretary Rizvi Ahmed told UNB...
Suicide, scams overshadow | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Egypt examsCAIRO, Jul 11 : Soad Ahmed Hassan paces anxiously outside the school where her daughter is sitting Egypt's end of year exams. So far the test has driven two pupils to suicide and sparked a wave of corruption claims....
Ed Crooks in London | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Iraq has invited foreign companies to bid for contracts developing eight of its oil and gas fields, launching a process that will let big international oil companies back into the country for the first time in more than 30 years.Hussein...
WASHINGTON, July 11 (AFP): Americans will attempt to lead the overall medal table for the fourth Summer Olympics in a row next month in Beijing, but hosts China and Russia will challenge for supremacy in golds and total medals.US teams...
Joe Leahy in Mumbai and Amy Yee in New Delhi, FT Syndication ServiceIn December 2004, the year his government took office, Manmohan Singh warned that India's system of subsidies, particularly those covering fuel and energy, was unsustainable. "Today, we are...
The Public Servant (Marriage with Foreign National) (Amendment) Ordinance 2008 has been promulgated allowing a public servant to marry or promise to marry a foreign national with the permission of the President, reports UNB.The amended ordinance said the President might...
Martin Sieff | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
The Rev. Jesse Jackson's generational jealousy of Sen. Barack Obama spilled over -- and boomeranged right back on Jackson's head.Remember Jackson's notorious reference decades ago to New York City as "Hymietown" -- "Hymie" being a derogatory term for Jewish people?...
SYLHET, July 11 (UNB): Work on a modern laboratory for testing standard of various commodities began at Khadimnagar BSCIC industrial estate in the city involving Tk 100 million.Bangladesh Standard Testing Institute (BSTI) director Rezaul Karim said, the work is progressing...
A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. The...
BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua): China's export of textiles and garments fell 11 per cent year-on-year to 81.68 billion US dollars in the first half of this year, the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) reported yesterday.Industry watchers attributed the...
Three persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Sylhet, the body of a newly-wed housewife was recovered from Lalarchak village in Kanaighat Upazila Thursday.The...
BAGERHAT, July 11 (UNB): Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed has said Bangladesh should increase food production to attain self-reliance by raising crop-intensity."We should grow two crops on mono-crop lands and three crops on lands used for double-cropping to achieve...
Amirul Islam | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
THE budget deficit will continue to be sizeable or on the higher side, notwithstanding the increased revenue collection in fiscal 2007-08. But for the momentum in revenue collection to sustain, economic growth will have to be yet higher or government's...
LONDON, July 11 (AFP): Cristiano Ronaldo believes FIFA president Sepp Blatter was right to controversially describe him as being treated like a "modern-day slave" by current club Manchester United.Ronaldo was responding to Blatter's comments made earlier in the day, in...
The Problem | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Primark, the clothing retailer, last month announced it had fired three suppliers in India after it was found that they had subcontracted work to home workers who used child labour. George Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, which owns...
FE Report | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Dhaka Bank Foundation has recently provided a donation of Tk 1.2 million to Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) as a gesture of humanitarian consideration for the dialysis treatment of financially distressed people.The...
Aussies slam Croatian deal | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
SYDNEY, July 11: Football Federation Australia is to take up with FIFA the legalities of an Australian club sending its young stars to Croatia, reports said Friday. Sydney United, formerly Sydney Croatia, has produced 32 Socceroos over the years and...
Awami League (AL) presidium member Amir Hossain Amu Friday said the party will ask its working committee member and Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) mayor candidate AKM Khairuzzaman Liton to withdraw his candidature, reports UNB."Despite a strong demand from the grassroots...
RANGPUR, July 11 (BSS): Lifestyle of the people of over 150 remote char villages and Dahogram-Angarpota enclave in greater Rangpur has now been changed to a great extent due to the setting up of solar power units in the areas.While...
FE Report | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Temperature and other variations resulting from climate change will have a strong impact on fisheries and aquaculture, with significant food security consequences for certain populations, said FAO.The UN food agency's note of caution came at a four-day scientific symposium on...
Fahimda Akhter | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been one of the countries, which pursue the policy of extending public health care for free, or, at nominal costs, to the people who can not afford it due to property. They are too poor to afford private...
Mahmuda Shaolin | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) will start from tomorrow (Sunday) the delivery of remittances transferred through a US company, to recipients across the country.In January, the postal department signed a ground-breaking agreement with the global money transfer leader, Western Union,...
FE Report | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) announced Friday it is again sponsoring the Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) to acknowledge Asian and Pacific print journalists who cover development trends and the impact these have on the countries and people of...
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (AFP): The Security Council Thursday delayed a vote on UN sanctions against Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as the Harare government and its opposition resumed South African-mediated talks.Vietnam's UN ambassador Le Luong Minh, who chairs the council...
Eleven players share the lead in the points table of the 10th Standard Chartered School Chess Tournament (Class VI-X) with three points after the 3rd round at the Chess Federation Hall room Thursday, reports UNB.They are Rezaul Islam Babu, Abhropratim...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
The eight most advanced nations on Earth met in Toyako on the island of Hokkaido in Japan to talk on a set of issues ranging from global warming to soaring food and fuel prices to the election in Zimbabwe. The...
V Radhika | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
The elite Empire Club in Toronto invites speakers of tall stature to address its members. This one was no exception. Only, special arrangements had to be made. Nine-year-old Hannah Taylor stood on a trunk so that the assembled audience could...
Fred Bergsten | 2008-07-12 00:00:00
THE global economy has clearly decoupled from the US and world growth remains close to 4 per cent in spite of the absence of any increases in domestic US demand. Continued expansion abroad, especially in the emerging market economies, has...
LONDON (Agencies): Oil leapt $5 to a new record high near $147 a barrel Friday, spurred by growing worries of threats to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and the possibility of a strike by Brazilian oil workers next week.US crude...
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