Foreign policy often involves making difficult and debatable choices about which parts of the world matter more to a given country—and which, by extension, matter less. It’s about defining national interests and determining where those interests are most evident and endangered. This is why the United States has done far more to stop ISIS in Syria and Iraq than, say, sectarian war in the Central African Republic.
In short, it’s about priorities. And according to a new survey of U.S. foreign-policy experts and practitioners, those priorities could look a lot like the map above in 2015, at least from America’s point of view. The map sorts potential conflicts around the world into three tiers of risk: red for high-priority threats, orange for moderate-priority threats, and yellow for low...
The 44th Victory Day of Bangladesh is being observed today with due solemnity and rich tributes paid to the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971.
The day commenced with a 31-gun salute followed by rich tributes of President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at National Mausoleum in Savar in the early hours.
A colourful parade heralded the day, which began at 10:00am, in participation of freedom fighters, members of armed forces and other law enforcing agencies.
President Abdul Hamid atten...
Two community radio projects in Bangladesh supported by WACC have won awards for “their outstanding contribution in championing girls’ and young women’s empowerment issues.”
The two stations were among five to receive the Girl Power Award for 2014, presented in Dhaka in late November by the Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in collaboration with Plan International Bangladesh.
The two projects supported by WACC under its community radio initiative are:
Community Radio Padma 99.2 was ...
Bangladesh must ensure high-quality education, plug infrastructure deficit and establish good governance to be an Asian economic powerhouse, US Ambassador Dan W Mozena said yesterday.
He also said apparel, shoes and finished leather goods, generic pharmaceuticals, and IT products are the four areas that will make the country's economy more vibrant.
“A tiger, of course, needs more than just legs. My vision of the Bangladesh economic tiger includes frozen shrimp, small freighters, flowers, bone china, jute products, silk products and so m...
The rate of implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY’15) was as low as 21 per cent.
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, who did not hide his worries, while speaking at a ‘press meat’ Sunday, listed a number of reasons for the slow execution of the ADP, the problem of land acquisition being at the top of the list.
Mr. Mustafa Kamal, however, speaking at another function in Dhaka on the same day, expressed the hope that the economy would post a 7.0 per cent growth this fiscal, reports the Financial EXpress.
This week we found ourselves back outside the AGM of London based mining company GCM Resources again to stand in solidarity with our friends from Bangladesh who are campaigning to stop the proposed opening of an open-pit mine by GCM in Phulbari, Bangladesh.
It’s about 8 years since World Development Movement (WDM) was contacted by some activists from Bangladesh to see if we could work together in their work to stop GCM carrying out their a project which...
