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25,000 fortune-seekers trafficked from BD: UNHCR

A UNHCR report says some 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded smugglers’ boats from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year—almost double the number over the same period in 2014. [caption id="attachment_15768" align="alignleft" width="300"]thai_5 Ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar wave. Thailand has long been a hub for people trafficking, with thousands of Rohingya boat people from neighbouring Myanmar believed to have passed through the kingdom in recent years. Photo: Reuters file photo[/caption] Based on interviews with those who...

India-Bangladesh boundary bill passed

The Lok Sabha today passed the constitution amendment bill to implement the historic land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, completing the stamp of approval by Indian parliament to settle the more than four-decade-old land boundary and exchange of enclaves issues. bd-indiaThe bill was unanimously passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday. The same bill was okayed by Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, around 6:10pm (Indian time). Moving the 119th Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day, which w...

Canada expected key RMG destination by 2021

Bangladesh is aiming to achieve an ambitious rise to $3.5 billion of readymade garments (RMG) exports to Canada by 2021. According to Masud Rahman, chief of the Canada Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CanCham Bangladesh), exports to Canada stood at $1.1 billion in the fiscal year to June 2014, $770 million of Bangladesh-rmg-workerwhich were ready made garments. Bangladesh has hopes of hitting an overall target of $50 billion of overseas sales by the end of 2021 as they become a middle income country. Canad...

‘Ban told Hasina to find political way forward’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh during his conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday. Ban ki Moon"The Secretary-General, I think, expressed his opinion in the way we've been expressing it here, which is to call to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh," said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General at a daily press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday. He made the remarks when a questioner wan...

Company to operate proposed Rooppur nuclear plant

The cabinet at a regular meeting on Monday cleared a draft law namely Nuclear Power Plant Act 2015. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chaired the meeting. RooppurThis law allows forming company to operate Bangladesh’s proposed nuclear power plant at Pabna’s Rooppur. A company, Nuclear Power Company of Bangladesh, will be set up under the Act. Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said, the government expects the plant to start production in 2021. Power-starved Bangladesh has inked an agreement with Russia for constructing a nuclear pow...

Lured by jobs, Bangladeshis end up slaves in Thai jungles

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi nationals in pursuit of jobs in Malaysia are believed to have fallen victim to the modern-day slave trade, amid claims of rampant human trafficking activities over the porous Malaysia-Thailand border, according to The Daily Star today. The Bangladesh-based English newspaper claimed that at least 250,000 Bangladeshis have been held in the jungles of Thailand for ransom over the past eight years, squeezing their families of anything between TK200,000 (RM9,200) to TK350,000 Bangladeshi Taka for each captive. [caption id="attachment_15634" align="alignleft" width="300"]
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