Bangladesh is to hold a census of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya who have crossed into the country seeking refuge from persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.
Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said the government had earmarked $2.7 million for the census to be carried out in Bangladesh’s southeast, near the border with Myanmar’s Rakhine state, reports AFP.
Official estimates have put the number of undocumented Rohingya in Bangladesh at between 200,000 and 500,000, in addition to around 32,000 registere...
President Md. Abdul Hamid arrived in Hanoi on Monday, beginning his State visit to Vietnam from August 9-13 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.
The visit, being made at a time when the bilateral relations are on fine development, aims at consolidating and promoting the traditional friendship and multifaceted co-operation between Vietnam and Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi President Md. Abdul Hamid and his spouse are warmly welcomed in Hanoi.[/caption]
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Parliamentary standing committees are unable to work effectively as watchdogs due to political influence and conflict of interest among committee members, a new study of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) revealed.
The study says that the members of parliamentary committees have business interests in their respective parliamentary bodies and often they use the committees as tool to gain their own interest, UNB news agency reported.
The study, titled ‘Effectiveness of Parliamentary Standing Committees of Bang...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in a statement said, Bangladesh Police again attempted to justify extrajudicial executions with the excuse of “self-defence”. The latest attempt, according to AHRC, has been made in a media release sent out from the Police Headquarters and circulated to the country’s media on 2 August 2015.
In order to hide its crimes of extrajudicial executions, the Bangladesh Police has tried to take shelter behind the controversial actions of the executive officers called ‘executive magistrates’ in Bangladesh. The police media release states that:
“… An executive committee headed by a Magistrate investigates whether the police have exercised their right to self-defence correctly, or whether they have used excessive force. This matter can also be tried in...
Philippine economic growth this year is projected to be the fourth fastest in the world, data compiled by CNN Money showed.
The chart showed the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth has been forecast at 6.7 percent, which is below the government’s seven to eight percent target for the year.
The figure trails behind China’s estimated economic expansion of 6.8 percent, Qatar’s 7.1 percent, and India’s 7.5 percent.
The Philippines’ projected economic growth is higher than Bangladesh’s 6.3 percent, Viet...
The central bank will set up $500 million of funding for the country’s manufacturers, in an effort to stimulate economic growth, the head of the bank said on Thursday.
The money will be split between two funds, one aimed at manufacturing in general, the second at textiles, including export-oriented ready-made garment factories.
Garments are a key foreign-exchange earner for Bangladesh. The country’s low wages and duty-free access to Western markets have helped make it the world’s second-largest apparel exporter after China.
“Two new support...
