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Habitat inaugurates community center in Mymensing

Habitat for Humanity International-Bangladesh arranged an inauguration ceremony of the “Bondhon community Center” at Gandropa union of Mymensing district, which was completed in April 2015, in order to enrich community members quality of life, by providing education facilities, access to water supply and sanitation facilities including tube well, public baths, toilets and rain water harvesting system and gathering place. ???????????????????????????????The project has been conducted with financial aid of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOI...

Year 2016: The ‘Year of Tourism’

With the development of tourism hotspots, new luxury hotels being built and improved air connectivity, ‘Beautiful Bangladesh’ looks set to project itself onto the international tourist map While the exoticism of India has long made it a Mecca for Western travellers keen to experience its sights, sounds and culinary delights, its smaller neighbor to the east has been largely overlooked. But a Bangladesh-Tourismnew impetus to attract foreign visitors and develop tourist hotpots could help Bangladesh, which can more than match...

Nuclear tensions rising in South Asia

Pakistani military personnel stand beside Shaheen-II missiles during the Pakistan Day military parade on 23 March 2015; the country has reportedly test-fired the longer-range Shaheen-III weapons The time, attention and effort devoted to reaching a deal with Iran over its nuclear ambitions has unwittingly tended to obscure the growing dangers of nuclear proliferation elsewhere in the world. [caption id="attachment_15119" align="alignleft" width="300"]shaheed missile Pakistani military personnel stand beside Shaheen-II missiles during th...

The end of an era for China

Probably the least surprising thing about China’s GDP growth rate for the first three months of the year is that it slowed to 7%. After all, that’s the target for the year. What’s more surprising are the drivers: consumption more than investment, services outpacing manufacturing, and domestic demand rather than exports. Taking today’s figures and the data for March together with the full year picture for 2014 shows that china economyChina’s growth drivers are changing. Consumption contributed 3.8 percentage points to 2014’s 7.4% ...

New Zealand link to Bangladesh hardline forces

New Zealand’s spies are scooping up intelligence material on terrorists in Bangladesh and passing it to local security forces with a reputation for murder and torture, according to secret documents. The link between intelligence gathering by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and foreign security agencies, which engage in widespread killing and torture, has RABsparked concern among New Zealand’s Opposition politicians. The connection came in documents taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden when he walked out of his job as a contracto...

US wants more business-friendly environment

Washington wants to see a more business-friendly environment in Bangladesh through establishment of a smooth dispute resolution system. US ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has also stressed the need for protecting intellectual property rights for the safety of business operations including Marcia_Bernicatuse of technology, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo. “Clear pathways to dispute resolution making bureaucratic interaction more user-friendly are essential to boosting the appeal of Bangladesh’s commercial environment...
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