Burma and Bangladesh will reschedule talks on the current border crisis after the Burmese delegation rejected proposals at a flag meeting in Maungdaw last week. Maj-Gen Aziz Ahmed, the director-general of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said that no clear decision was made at the border flag meeting and so talks will be scheduled for Naypyidaw in the near future. Aziz said that Burma refused a demand to withdraw its troops from positions close to the common border, and also rejected a Bangladeshi proposal to conduct joint pat...

The fate of the longstanding LNG terminal project is likely to be decided at a meeting of the Project Processing Committee (PPC) on Monday, said Petrobangla chairman Dr Hussain Monsur. The Petrobangla chairman said that they received a term-sheet of US-based consortium of Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy last month about the project. After the scrutiny, he said, it was put forward to the Energy Ministry to place it at the PPC meeting. The PPC is an inter-ministerial body formed comprising representatives from different ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Law and also the Bangladesh Bank.