NEW YORK, Sept 9 (AFP): Justine Henin of Belgium capped off a tremendous year by defeating Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-3 to lift her second US Open crown Saturday. The top seed took control of the final from the first...
Bangladesh beat Hong Kong (HK) by 3-1 goals to become 7th in the 7th Asia Cup Hockey Championship in a position deciding match held in Chennai, India, Sunday, reports UNB. The match locked in 1-1 goals during the first half.Celebrated...
LONDON, Sept 9 (AFP): India captain Rahul Dravid was determined to stay positive despite his side's seven wicket defeat to England Saturday. Dravid said there were plenty of positives to take out of a tour that saw India win their...
POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Sept 9 (AFP): Ghana struck three superb goals to defeat South Africa 3-1 Saturday and close on a place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics football tournament. United Arab Emirates-based striker Prince Tagoe scored with his right and...
Saiful KaiserAlthough Collingwood was praising his bowlers for their series win at least for their performance in the final, others were pointing to the umpiring errors, two crucial ones, which got rid of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar for the...
Chowmrin Rakhain struck a hattrick as Friends Social Welfare Organisation crushed Jurain Jonota Club by 7-0 goals in the Metropolis Third Division Football League at the Outer Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB.Chowmrin scored four goals while Abu Hanif...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9 (AFP): Pakistan's government braced Sunday for a showdown with former premier Nawaz Sharif as the man ousted by President Pervez Musharraf in 1999 vowed to defy international appeals and return from exile. Officials indicated that Sharif could...
Antoaneta Bezlova from BeijingChina's display of economic clout and diplomatic assertiveness at the Asia Pacific leaders' forum in Sydney this week has been overshadowed by a concurrent show of power in the Bay of Bengal where the United States is...
Sujoy Dhar from KolkataGarishly made-up sex workers hang around the seedy street that leads to 'Nirmal Hriday', the home for the dying founded by Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa, in a portion of an abandoned temple to the Hindu demon-slaying...
A. Craig CopetasBeneath the precious fruit of an olive tree planted in 1776 outside the mountain hamlet of Sambuca di Sicilia, Giovanni Di Bennardo mops summer dust from his brow and explains how he'll make it to America. ``I will...
Hui-yong Yu and David M. LevittU.S. commercial real estate prices may fall as much as 15 percent over the next year in the broadest decline since the 2001 recession as rising borrowing costs force property owners to accept less or...
WHILE the government is in the midst of a flood-rehabilitation programme and the people are about to restart their life again in areas devastated by the recent flood, the country is bracing for yet another flood. Most rivers in the...
Shahiduzzaman KhanTHE president of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICC-B) Mahbubur Rahman said Bangladesh with a narrow export basket is likely to face tough competition as the EU and US restrictions on RMG export from China will be withdrawn from January...
Martin WolfWE are living through the first crisis of our brave new world of securitised financial markets. It is too early to tell how economically important this upheaval will prove. But nobody can doubt its significance for the financial system....
Najmeh BozorgmehrinIRAN'S new central bank governor, appointed the other day, says he has a plan to eliminate interest rates on loans, in order to encourage "real and genuine" banking services -- a move that left bankers fearful about greater government...
The Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) at Savar is the main centre that trains new members of the civil services. But the standard of this body has deteriorated over the years. The trainers themselves are considered as not sufficiently...
REPORTS about renewed flooding in several districts after fresh aman paddy saplings were transplanted are very worrisome, indeed. The season for plantation of these saplings is almost over. Raising new saplings after the waters of the fresh flood have receded...
SOME urgent actions are necessary for making more air cargo space available for facilitating the exports of agri-products to the European Union (EU) and the Middle East (ME) countries. The report carried in the FE in its issue on Saturday...
FE reportThe visit of Intel Corporation Chairman Craig R Barrett to Bangladesh last week has ushered a new era in the country's education of information and communication technologies (ICT) with the launch of the company's World Ahead Programme (WAP). During...
Martin LaMonicaThis Sunday is the deadline for an important standards vote on Microsoft's Open XML file formats, with early reports pointing to an inconclusive result--and a hefty dose of disillusionment with the standards process. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)...
Victoria Shannon If I narrowed my eyes a little bit, I could convince myself that the people on the other side of the office table were in the same room. But they weren't: I was seated at a conference table...
Ina Fried When I saw Steve Jobs showing off the new mobile iTunes music store, my first thought was, wow, as if the device wasn't attractive enough to thieves, now they can steal the device and buy more songs off...
Victoria Shannon First, we saw a recoil against social networks, then a backlash against blogs. Now, just when digital music has reached enough of a mass audience to make even my tech-challenged sister take the plunge, the Web is awash...
Several signs are pointing to the imminent launch of Google Wiki and the company's long-awaited presentation service at this week's Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco.The biggest indicators are history and vague comments by Google officials. Last year's Office 2.0...
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (AFP): The world's largest economy was hit with surprise job losses in August as a housing slump and a pullback in home construction triggered increased layoffs, a government report revealed yesterday. The Labour Department said US employers...
GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters): World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said Saturday a global trade deal was now within reach but political leaders needed to give a "final push" to complete the current round of negotiations.Lamy warned that the...
KATHMANDU, Sept 8 (Xinhua): The Nepali government is preparing to slash landing, parking and ground handling fees at Tribhuvan International Airport, the only international airport in the country based in Kathmandu, by 25 per cent for a year for new...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 8 (Xinhua): The governor of Thailand's central bank said Thursday that the rapid appreciation of domestic currencies and international "hot money" are among the risks facing Asia's emerging economies in the near future. Tarisa Watanagase, the first...
OTTAWA, Sept 8 (AFP): Canada's economy generated 23,000 jobs in August as the unemployment rate held at a 33-year low of 6.0 per cent, Statistics Canada said yesterday. The report was better than expected by analysts, who had predicted on...
NEW YORK, Sept 8 (PTI): As part of its efforts to combat climate change, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has created an information gathering web resource-displaying data, studies, policy papers, videos and other materials. "This service is a...
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