Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Jul 7: Construction of Chaktai-Mariners Road under the auspices of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) involving Tk 60 million began Thursday.CCC Acting Mayor Monzur Alam and Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Shah Mohammad Akteruddin jointly inaugurated the kick-off...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe Blair era in British politics has ended. Being the prime minister of United Kingdom, one of the leading and most advanced countries of the world, Tony Blair's impact was felt not only in Britain, it was felt...
Yoshiko NakanoFew would question Japan's superiority in manufacturing, but what is the secret of this excellence? A great many specialists from around the world, such as business managers and management researchers, have studied Japan's manufacturing to try and unearth the...
Enayet RasulBangladesh started winning the appreciation of the international community when, in 1999-2000, it came around to achieving self sufficiency in cereal production. In the years following, this good trend followed and was cited as one of the major indicators...
Habibur RahmanIt is not everyday that one hears of a Bangladesh project replicated globally. Yet, ASA, a Bangladeshi NGO, has achieved this rare distinction. It now works as a consultant to NGOs in a number of countries that include India,...
Janet SchayanHildesheim, Goslar, Quedlinburg - ever heard of them? Admittedly the three cities are in the heart of Germany, but not exactly on the usual tourist trails, especially for holidaymakers from abroad. All three have something in common: their buildings,...
Katie NguyenThe smell of fresh cement thickens the air as builders in dust-smeared T-shirts hoist bricks up the side of an unfinished Nairobi apartment block.Kenyans need only look at the rash of properties transforming the capital's skyline for proof of...
Stephen FidlerTwo years ago, the perception about what constituted the greatest terrorist threat to Britain shifted dramatically. The July 7 2005 suicide bomb attacks on the London transport system suggested that the main threat came not from abroad but from...
Maurice Saatchi On this July 4, Americans may be perplexed and confused about the way their country is perceived in the world. They may feel like Josef K. in Franz Kafka's The Trial. "Someone must have laid false accusations against...
Roger Blitz, Leisure Industries Correspondent Blackstone last week bought Hilton Hotels Corporation for $26bn (£12.8bn), giving the private equity company the biggest hotel group in the world by number of properties.The deal, at $47.50 a share, represents a 31.7 per...
Richard McGregor in Beijing Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke "social unrest".The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government...
Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt The European Central Bank launched a stiff defence of eurozone exchange rate policy-making last Tuesday in an apparent rebuff to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.Current arrangements for setting policy, giving the ECB a large role, were...
Daniel Dombey and Stanley Pignal in London Europeans consistently regard the US as the biggest threat to world stability, a new poll reveals recently. A survey carried out in June by Harris Research for the Financial Times shows that 32...
Eoin Callan in Washington Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination, have agreed to co-sponsor legislation that would levy punitive duties on Chinese goods to cajole Beijing into revaluing its currency, according to aides. The...
Ten years ago, on July 2nd 1997, Thailand's central bank floated the baht after failing to protect the currency from speculative attack. The move triggered a financial and economic collapse that quickly spread to other economies in the region, causing...
David L Llorito The global outsourcing trend, which first made political waves about job losses in the United States, is now starting to cause similar ripples across high-wage-earning Asian countries. Corporate America's drive to cut costs by shipping service-related jobs...
William PesekIn the annals of unintended consequences, Asia's reserve bubble deserves a mention. Ten years after the start of the Asian crisis, the region's $3 trillion-plus of foreign-exchange reserves are having two noticeable effects. One, scaring away the speculators who...
THE export processing zones (EPZs) in Bangladesh have proved to be useful in drawing mainly foreign investors and contributing to the country's export earnings. But now thoughts are being expressed about the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs) in...
Qazi AzadBAD news can actually be a piece of good news depending on the nature of its implications. One such news, an agency report, was published in this paper last Monday. The story said revenue earning from the Hilli Land...
William WallisLAST December the government of Senegal slashed its long-standing subsidy on cooking gas under pressure from a growing budget deficit and from foreign donors called in to plug the gap.The subsidy was originally put in place under pressure from...
Samiul HaqueAFTER dipping considerably in recent months, the rate of inflation has increased a little though it is officially counted to be below 8.0 per cent. The Finance Adviser has, once again, assured all concerned in this connection that inflation...
Honestly speaking, I was appalled to know through the FE issue of last Thursday that the Director General of the Bangladesh Betar has initialed an agreement along side the BBC Bangla service Chief on behalf of their respective organizations for...
Hard observers at field levels know it that the official family planning programme is not running well. The door to door visitors of the family planning department to households are hardly seen doing their job. Although they are paid from...
After so many articles and reports in the media, the government finally went for rehabilitating 7,000-8,000 evicted slum-dwellers through constructing buildings on two plots of land of the Ministry of Work in Mohakhali and Mirpur areas in the city. This...
ATM Abdul WahabLANDSLIDES in Chittagong on the night of June 10-11, 2007 once again proved the severe effect of global warming. During the twenty four hours, rainfall was 267 mm highest in 25 years. Torrential rains sparked a series of...
The fundamental principle of state policy enshrined in article 15 of part ii of the constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh stipulates "a steady improvement in the material and cultural standard of living of the people". According to this...
LOOKING at Bangladesh in a geographical sense, the country is split into two halves by the mighty Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers. These three rivers combine to divide the country in nature's own way. But nature has also divided Bangladesh...
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane was fired on as it took off Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, an intelligence officer said, contradicting official denials.Gen. Musharraf's plane arrived safely in the southwestern town of Turbat, where...
LAGOS, July 6 (AFP): Gunmen who kidnapped a three-year- old British girl in southern Nigeria said they would kill her unless her father takes her place, the girl's mother told the BBC on Friday. "They say I can bring my...
BAGHDAD, July 6 (AFP): A car bomb ripped through guests at a wedding party in southern Baghdad Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding the bride and groom, security and defence officials said Thursday. The blast erupted outside a photographer's studio...
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