GUIYANG, Aug 15 (CEIS): China shut down small thermal power plants with the installed capacity totaling 6.95 million kilowatts in the first half of the year, completing about 70 per cent of the pre-set goal in this regard in 2007....
YANGON, Aug 15 (AFP): Myanmar's military government secretly doubled key fuel prices early today, stranding bus operators and commuters across the country's economic hub Yangon as drivers struggled to tank up. Official media made no mention of the increase, the...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (Xinhua): Brazil's state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras announced yesterday that investments will total 112.4 billion US dollars in the 2008- 2012 period, up 28 per cent from 87.4 billion dollars foreseen in its 2007-2011...
FE ReportThere was an easier tone in the week's sale following less interest from all sections of the market. Pakistan buyers operated for clean good liquoring varieties particularly the Brokens whilst Internal Blenders and Packeters lent a fair support. Loose...
FLOOD relief and treating flood victims down with waterborne diseases like diarrhoea and cholera are grabbing all the attention at the moment of the camera and of those running relief operations in the affected districts. But now that the floodwater...
Syed Fattahul AlimBANGLADESH at this moment is facing the worst visitation by flood in many years. The flood has engulfed 38 districts, or 33 according to another estimate. It has affected about 10 million people, destroyed fishery resources worth Tk...
Cheryl PellerinDEADLY floodwaters finally are receding in rivers of the South Asian nation of Bangladesh. The weekslong deluge killed nearly 200 people and affected 12 million in 40 of 64 districts, according to the World Health Organisation, but the toll...
Amy KazminTHAILAND'S Supreme Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister, and his wife Pojamarn, after the two failed to appear in court to stand trial on corruption charges.Judge Tonglor Choam-ngam declared...
FARSIGHTEDNESS, seasoned with magnanimity, in state management seems to be essential to keep up the wheel of economic progress moving. Frankly speaking, it is not desirable that the businessmen and other well-off people, who positively contribute to the economy through...
A scramble is noted among some politicians or political juniors -- who are thinking that they are above any reproach -- that they would be eminently suited to become leading figures to grace the political realm following the changes in...
Jo JohnsonCONFRONTED by the gravest crisis of his eight-year rule, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, faces an ever-shrinking menu of options. In recent weeks he has spent much of his time shut away in his military camp in Rawalpindi, surrounded by...
Md. Anwarul Kabir THE members of the generation who were mere children during our liberation war and who finished their major part of their schooling in the post-1975 era and the generation afterwards are deprived of the true history of...
Haig SimonianCOREY Billington's business card calls him a professor of operations management and procurement. Before moving to IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, the 49-year-old Californian worked for close to two decades at Hewlett-Packard, where procurement was one of his...
Javier Blas and Chris Flood from London and Adam Jones CONSUMERS are facing higher food prices as the cost of agricultural commodities surges on what the industry describes as a 'perfect storm' of tight supplies and robust demand. The price...
Adviser for Health and Family Welfare A S M Matiur Rahman said Wednesday that all-out steps have been taken to face the flood side by side with treatment of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases, reports BSS. "We have enough stocks...
Adviser for Agriculture, Environment and Forest CS Karim urged Wednesday the South Asian countries to take coordinated steps for combating air pollution, reports BSS." A single country initiative can't prevent air pollution as it also affects the neighbours," he said...
Bangladesh Scouts has opened a 75-bed field hospital for diarrhoea patients on the premises of ICDDR'B, reports BSS.Doctors and nurses from ICDDR,B and Rover Scouts are working in the hospital round the clock, said a press release today.National Commissioner of...
The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) is taking initiatives to ensure the healthcare of 60,000 flood-affected expectant mothers of the country for their safe childbirth, reports UNB."UNFPA has calculated that there're 60,000 expectant mothers among the flood-affected people and they're...
Twelve persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, reports agencies.In Brahmanbaria, three people were killed and 30 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside...
Authorities of Dhaka University have cancelled admission of nine more students, who got admitted through fraudulent means, reports BSS.The university syndicate at a meeting last night with vice- chancellor (VC) SMA Faiz in the chair took the decision.Of the nine...
FE ReportA group of employees of the Bangladesh Association for Voluntary Sterilisation (BAVS) Wednesday demanded suspension of its executive director and assistant director (finance) immediately on charge of massive corruption.They said this at a press briefing organised by the employees...
China assured Wednesday of all cooperation in relief and post-flood reconstruction in Bangladesh, reports UNB."The Chinese government and people are very concerned about the flood situation. As a close neighbour and good friend of Bangladesh, we'll do our best," Chinese...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury received Wednesday a cheque for US $ 25,000 as a contribution from the government of Sri Lanka to the Chief Adviser's Relief Fund for flood victims, reports BSS.Sri Lankan High Commi-ssioner V Krishnamoorthy...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 15: A total of 163 community clinics in Brahmanbaria district are not functioning due to the negligence of the concerned authorities for the last four years.The clinics were established in December, 2003 at different upazilas of Brahmanbaria...
Remarkable progress has been made by Bangladesh in its relations with members of international community after Fakhruddin Ahmed had formed the caretaker government (CG) in January this year, reports BSS.Since the present CG took over, the government had to apprise...
The caretaker government (CG) has yet to think about officially declaring Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as Father of the Nation, the law adviser Mainul Hosein said Wednesday. "There's been no discussion about the matter (inside the government). The proposal must...
Leaders and activists of the Awami League (AL) and its front organisations offered a special prayer at 11:30am Wednesday in front of the special jail in the parliament complex where party chief Sheikh Hasina has been interned, reports bdnews24.com. Bagerhat...
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury and three others, including prominent TV artiste Abdullah Al Mamun, were acquitted of charges in a graft case Wednesday, reports UNB.Metropolitan Sessions Judge AKM Anwar Hossain acquitted Mayor Mohiuddin, Abdullah Al Mamun,...
Door to door delivery of relevant forms to collect data for the registration of voters began in Rangpur municipal area Tuesday, repots BSS. Distribution of registration forms to each household in the district town will continue until September 13 to...
The High Court (HC) Wednesday stayed for long three months the trial proceedings of two extortion cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Adviser ASM Hannan Shah and his son.A Division Bench, comprising Justice MA Matin and Justice M Abdul...
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