TAIPEI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua): ASE Test Limited ("We" or "the Company"), one of the world's largest independent providers of semiconductor testing services, today announced its second quarter (2Q07) diluted earnings of $0.03 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $0.53...
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Recommendation of dividend/no dividendUCBL: The board of directors of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) has recommended 30 per cent stock dividend (three bonus shares for every 10 shares) for its shareholders for the year 2001. The board of directors has...
GHAZNI, Aug 5 (AFP): South Korea said Sunday it hoped a meeting between the Afghan and US presidents could break the apparent deadlock in negotiations for the release of 21 aid workers held hostage by the Taliban. President Hamid Karzai...
LAHORE, Aug 5 (AP): An outspoken Pakistani opposition leader Sunday demanded that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf step down so upcoming elections could be held free of his military government's interference. Javed Hashmi, the acting leader of exiled former Prime Minister...
BIKFAYA, Aug 5 (AFP): Voters in Lebanon cast their ballots Sunday amid tight security in crucial by-elections seen as a test for the country's divided Christian parties ahead of a presidential poll. Voting is taking place in Beirut and the...
LONDON, Aug 5 (AP): Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a government animal laboratory near the infected farm. The agriculture department said...
BARABANKI, Aug 5 (AP): Torrential rains overnight compounded the misery of 2 million marooned Indian villagers, killing another 11 people and raising the death toll from house collapses and floods in South Asia to 240, officials said Sunday. Helicopters have...
TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AP): Iran's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it would consider allowing the wife of an American man who vanished in Iran earlier this year to visit the Islamic country to search for him. "The request has not officially...
COLOMBO, Aug 5(AFP): A top UN official is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka this week to discuss the island's deepening Tamil separatist conflict and the plight of civilians caught in the crossfire, officials said today. John Holmes, the under-secretary-general...
MEDVEZHEGORSK, Aug 5 (AFP): Relatives of the victims of Stalin's purges held a ceremony Sunday at an execution site in a Russian forest on the 70th anniversary of the start of the mass killings. Dozens of family members were joined...
BEIJING, Aug 5 (AP): China's top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country's strict population limits, state media said Sunday. Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more...
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (AFP): A US soldier was sentenced Saturday to 110 years in jail for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and slaying her family, the army said. "Private First Class Jesse Spielman was sentenced to 110 years...
SEOUL, Aug 5 (AFP): North Korea has publicly executed a trade official for chopping down and smuggling cherished "slogan trees" on which founding leader Kim Il- Sung reputedly carved anti-Japanese messages, a report said today. Senior local timber trader Oh...
TOKYO, Aug 5 (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to reshuffle his cabinet on August 27 to secure an extension of the navy's support mission for Afghanistan following last month's election defeat, reports said Sunday. Abe will reshuffle the...
The five-day 'Mutual Trust Bank-The Daily Star Debate Contest 2007' ended in the port city recently with a call for students to extend their horizon beyond academic studies and make efforts to understand social issues, says a press release. The...
MOULVIBAZAR, Aug 5 (UNB): Speakers at an opinion exchange meeting here Saturday urged Imams of mosques and marriage registrars (Kazis) to come forward for preventing child marriage in the country.They called upon the Imams to deliver speeches in mosques about...
FE ReportWarid Telecom Sunday awarded schoolboy Rakibul Hasan whose bravery helped avert a possible train accident in Comilla on August 2. Rakibul was inspired by the Warid TV advertisement that showed a story of a boy who stopped a train...
FE ReportNational University (NU) authority has identified a total of 52 fake students at the degree (honours) level at different colleges across the country. Of them, there were 23 in the 2004-05 session and 29 in the 2005-06 session.The university...
Two Bangladeshi cattle traders were gunned down by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in separate incidents on Benapole and Satkhira borders Sunday, reports UNB. In Benapole, BSF troops shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader on Agrabhulot frontier here early in...
Caritas has planned to spend Tk 60 million in flood relief through immediate distribution of food, non-food household items and shelters for the flash floods, landslides and flood-affected families of the various districts of the country, said a press release.Caritas...
DU CorrespondentSerajul Haque Islamic Research Centre of Dhaka university published a journal on Islamic Studies both in Bangla and English languages Tuesday.DU Vice-Chancellor SMA Faiz unwrapped the covers of the two research journals as the chief guest in the ceremony.Southeast...
FE Report Soma Ray, eminent Rabindra Sangeet singer, arrived Dhaka Sunday on a three-day visit, said an Indian High Commission press release.Soma Ray, a talented young artist from Shantiniketan, India, is one of the very few artists of Rabindra Sangeet...
Defending champions Maria Sharapova stopped Anna Chakvetadze's bid for a third WTA title in as many weeks Saturday, reports BBC.Sharapova secured a 6-3 6-2 semi-final victory in the San Diego Classic, reaching her third final of the season. Top seed...
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (AP): Andy Roddick beat Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 7-6 (7), 7-6 (5) Saturday to reach the final of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic for the third time.He will face John Isner Sunday in an unlikely all-American final....
England have named an unchanged squad for the third and final Test against India starting Thursday at The Oval, reports BBC. All-rounder Andrew Flintoff and pace bowler Matthew Hoggard are not ready to return after ankle and back problems. Leicestershire...
Bangladesh Hockey Federation has organised a preparatory tournament at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium from Monday, ahead of the Asian Cup Hockey to be held on September 1-9 in Chennai in India, reports UNB.The 28-member preliminary Bangladesh squad for...
Kent clinched a gripping four-wicket victory over Gloucestershire in the Twenty20 Cup final at Edgbaston, reports BBC. Spitfires seamer Ryan McLaren bagged a hat-trick to help limit the Gladiators to 146-8 off 20 overs before Kent edged home with three...
Saiful KaiserPeter Moores, England's coach, says that stump microphones should be turned off during Test matches so that players can carry on a sledging contest on the side without a live audience who can learn a lot of unauthorised curses.According...
Bholalal of Sonargaon Hotel and Ram Jagdish of Cadet College Club won their respective matches by straight sets in the premier division of the Federation Cup Open Squash Tournament at the Gulshan Club Squash Court in the city Sunday.Bholalal beat...
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