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Team East make good start

2007-11-24 00:00:00

Riding on a Shakil Haider century, Team East made a good start in the final round four-day match of the Challenger's Cup against Team North scoring 259 for 5 in 95 overs on the first day at the Dhanmondi Cricket...

Bomb at Baghdad pet market kills 13, wounds 57

2007-11-24 00:00:00

BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (Reuters): A bomb hidden in a box containing birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad Friday, Iraqi police said. The police said four policemen were among the wounded in...

Active parents raise active children

2007-11-24 00:00:00

PARIS, Nov 23 (AFP): Active parents can, by their example, encourage their children to be physically active, but the effect is less than widely thought, according to a study of more than 5,000 10- and 11-year-olds published Friday. Its findings...

Polls, papers hurt Howard on election eve

2007-11-24 00:00:00

SYDNEY, Nov 23 (AFP): Besieged Australian Prime Minister John Howard was hit with a slew of bad news on the eve of elections Friday as opinion polls showed him trailing his opponent and key newspapers called for his ouster. Two...

Arab states, including KSA, to attend peace meet

2007-11-24 00:00:00

CAIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters): The Arab League group charged with following up on peace with Israel agreed Friday to attend a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference, and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister indicated he would attend. "The Arab peace follow-up group...

Ship sinking in Antarctic waters

2007-11-24 00:00:00

LONDON, Nov 23 (AP): More than 150 passengers and crew took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters Friday after their cruise ship hit an object and began to sink, Britain's Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported.Evacuees from the Liberian-flagged Explorer...

Sharif to return in days: Party official

2007-11-24 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, Nov 23 (AFP): Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted by Pervez Musharraf in a coup, will make a fresh attempt to return from exile in the next four or five days, a party spokesman Friday said. Sharif...

About 30 believed dead after China landslide

2007-11-24 00:00:00

BEIJING, Nov 23 (AFP): About 30 people are believed to have been killed after a landslide buried a bus in central China early this week, state press reported Friday. They were travelling on the bus in Badong county, Hubei province,...

NZ legislator to face bribery charges

2007-11-24 00:00:00

WELLINGTON, Nov 23 (AFP): A New Zealand legislator and former government minister will face 40 charges of bribery and perverting the course of justice, the police said Friday. Taito Phillip Field, who resigned from Prime Minister Helen Clark's ruling Labour...

Helping out cyclone-hit farmers

2007-11-23 00:00:00

OF the many fallouts from the devastating cyclone, damage to crops on a massive scale is one. The standing crops such as aman paddy on 500, 000 hectares of land in the south and south-western coastal districts of the country...

Human lives in coastal areas and Sidr

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Sadiq RahimEVERYBODY as a Bangladeshi, knows it very well that the cyclones in the year 1970 had devastated the coastal belts of Bangladesh in such a massive way that it had taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants...

E-tender to contain tender terrorism

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Sagar ShabnamSabekun Nahar Sony, a meritorious student of Chemical Engineering Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, was excited as she was going to finish her studies to become an engineer, a dream she cherished since her childhood, But...

Phasing out the outmoded education system

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Syed Mozzamel HaqueA shining example of the modernisation of education is India. India has built up a very good base in science and technology education and many of its institutions dealing with science and technology education are in the public...

Sympathies to be translated into actions

2007-11-23 00:00:00

IT is time for the nation to demonstrate its best qualities -- love and compassion for the distressed humanity. The heart-rendering scenes of destruction and devastation caused by the cyclone SIDR that the viewers watch over the electronic media evoke...

Need is dedicated traffic policing

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Traffic department officials, if asked about the cause of traffic jams, say many things such as inadequate roads in the city and the absence of sufficient number of infrastructures including flyovers and expressways. But only more devoted traffic management by...

Road from Washington to Karachi to nuclear anarchy

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Jonathan SchellThe journey to the martial law just imposed on Pakistan by its self-appointed president, the dictator Pervez Musharraf, began in Washington on September 11, 2001. On that day, it so happened, Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. General Mahmood Ahmed, was...

Slowing economy proves Fitzgerald wrong: Rich aren't different

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Matthew Benjamin and Rich MillerF. Scott Fitzgerald had it wrong: In a slowing economy, the rich aren't that different from everyone else. Affluent consumers, pinched by shrinking stock portfolios, falling property values and smaller bonuses, are behaving like their less-well-off...

One market, two separate worlds

2007-11-23 00:00:00

Elizabeth Eames Roebling from Anse A Pitres, HaitiAt 11 a.m., five hours after the start of the market day on the southern border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the driver of the bright red Haitian truck named "God of...

ASEAN, EU agree to speed up talks on free trade deal

2007-11-23 00:00:00

SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (Agencies): Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union agreed today to expedite negotiations for a free trade agreement, saying relations should not be held hostage by their differences over military-ruled Myanmar. The two sides...

China to see only mild impact from US subprime crisis

2007-11-23 00:00:00

BEIJING, Nov 22 (AFP): Chinese exporters might see only a mild impact from the US subprime crisis but should explore other markets to minimise any fallout, the nation's central bank governor was quoted today as saying. "The subprime crisis in...

Rich states to boost 'aid for trade' by half: Lamy

2007-11-23 00:00:00

GENEVA, Nov 22 (Reuters): Rich countries will increase their "aid for trade" to developing nations by half to around $30 billion by 2010, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said yesterday. The increased funding is an effort to help...

Europe's economy faces growing headwinds from Franco-German strikes

2007-11-23 00:00:00

PARIS, Nov 22 (Reuters): Europe's economy faces growing headwinds from strikes in Germany and France just when it least needs an extra brake on activity, but quick settlements on any terms may not be the answer given the long-term economic...

ASEAN finalises trade pacts with Japan, Korea

2007-11-23 00:00:00

SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (PTI): The ten-member bloc of Southeast Asian nations yesterday finalised a free trade agreement in goods with Japan and an agreement for trade in services with Korea to boost economic ties with two of Asia's biggest economies....

More EU cos feel pinch of China's WTO entry

2007-11-23 00:00:00

BEIJING, Nov 22 (AFP): A growing number of European companies in China feel their business has suffered after the nation's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to a survey released today. The survey conducted by the European Chamber...

Oil price retreats below 98 dollars

2007-11-23 00:00:00

SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (AFP): Oil retreated below 98 US dollars in Asia trade today after rising to within striking distance of the symbolic 100-dollar level. Dealers said investors were taking a cautious stance to protect their positions since US financial...

Japan Tobacco, instant noodle pioneer team up

2007-11-23 00:00:00

TOKYO, Nov 22 (AFP): Japan Tobacco and instant noodle pioneer Nissin said today they would jointly operate a frozen food company in a billion-dollar buyout and may enter a capital tie-up in the future. Japan Tobacco Inc., striving to diversify...

Buyers follow quality

2007-11-23 00:00:00

FE ReportIt was evident throughout the sale that buyers followed quality closely. As a result, prices for all good liquoring varieties appreciated over that of last week. Blenders continued to lend useful support whilst there was some enquiry from Pakistan....

New president, secy gen of IFAWPCA

2007-11-23 00:00:00

FE ReportThe 36th International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors' Association (IFAWPCA) convention was held in Gold Coast, Australia recently. BACI former president and Project Builders Ltd Managing Director Aminul Islam and BACI former president and Mir Akhter Hossain...

Euro hits fresh record high against greenback

2007-11-23 00:00:00

TOKYO, Nov 22 (AFP): The euro hit a fresh record high against the dollar in Asian trade today as investors fled from the greenback and shunned risk amid gloomy prospects for the US economy, dealers said. The dollar has also...

India favours balanced outcome of WTO talks

2007-11-23 00:00:00

KAMPALA, Uganda, Nov 22 (PTI): India yesterday favoured a balanced outcome of the current round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations for an international trade order taking into account the needs of developing countries even as it asked the international...