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Bangladesh’s PM Bumps Up COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Program by $8 bn 0
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- April 6, 2020
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Apr 05, 2020 2020-04-05 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday unveiled nearly U.S. $8 billion in additional financial aid to stimulate the nation’s economy and help people make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic, whose knock-on effects have battered key industries here. The whopping sum of new measures brings
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Bangladesh Faces Stark Shortage of Ventilators to Fight COVID-19, NGO Says 0
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- April 6, 2020
By BenarNews staff on Apr 06, 2020 2020-04-06 Hospitals across Bangladesh have fewer than 1,500 ventilators, the health minister said Monday, after rights group Save The Children pointed to a severe nationwide shortage of the machines amid the coronavirus outbreak. The number of ventilators in Bangladeshi hospitals or in the pipeline would average out to
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Bangladesh Govt Acknowledges Blocking BenarNews Websites 0
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- April 3, 2020
By BenarNews staff on Apr 03, 2020 Updated at 5:10 p.m. ET on 2020-04-03 Bangladesh authorities indicated Friday that they had blocked BenarNews, nearly two days after the online portal became inaccessible in the South Asian country, amid what is believed to be a crackdown on criticism of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rights Group Blasts Bangladesh for Targeting Doctors, Others over COVID-19 0
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- April 2, 2020
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Apr 01, 2020 Bangladeshi authorities have arrested at least a dozen people suspected of spreading “false rumors” about the coronavirus pandemic, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in calling on the government to stop targeting doctors and others who have raised concerns about its handling of the outbreak. Meanwhile, health authorities
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Panic Grips Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh over Coronavirus Concerns 0
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- March 20, 2020
By Sunil Barua, Abdur Rahman and Sharif Khiam on Mar 19, 2020 Panic hit Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Thursday after an international charity’s report highlighted that the government had no resources to test for the deadly coronavirus, rights groups and officials said. A Save the Children report, which was published on its website
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Bangladesh Conveys Worries over India’s Policies on Muslims 0
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- March 11, 2020
Kamran Reza Chowdhury, Dhaka 2020-03-10 Members of Bangladeshi Islamic parties rally in Dhaka against clashes in India over New Delhi’s controversial citizenship law, Feb. 28, 2020. AFP Bangladesh has expressed concern about India’s policies affecting Muslims through official channels, Dhaka’s foreign minister told BenarNews on Tuesday, one day after New Delhi announced that Prime Minister
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In Phone Call, Bangladesh Opposition Party Makes Direct Appeal for Leader’s Release 0
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- February 14, 2020
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Feb 14, 2020 After other attempts failed, a top official from the party of jailed Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia for the first time has telephoned a counterpart in the ruling Awami League to appeal directly to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to free her ailing bitter foe on medical grounds.
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Bangladesh: Dhaka Elections Not Fair, Opposition Complains 0
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- February 3, 2020
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury | benarnews.org | 2020-02-03 The just concluded Dhaka city elections were neither free nor fair because Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League used force and intimidation to get its candidates elected, civil society groups and opposition party members alleged Monday. Awami officials and the Bangladesh Election Commission rejected the criticism, saying that the
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Bangladesh Building China-Backed Exhibit Center in Defiance of Court Rulings 0
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- January 17, 2020
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Jan 15, 2020 Dhaka’s city development authority is close to finishing a Chinese-backed exhibition center –part of a project touted as Bangladesh’s biggest new planned township – officials said, although Bangladeshi courts have denied permission for the hall’s construction. The agency is carrying on with building the exhibit center in
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Bangladesh: Chinese Firm to Conduct Key Studies for Planned Township, for Free 1
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- January 2, 2020
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Dhaka 2019-12-31 A Chinese firm has agreed to conduct feasibility and environmental impact studies free of charge for a new township that Bangladesh’s government plans to build outside the capital, officials said amid legal, environmental and ethical concerns voiced over the project. The cost of the planned development in a floodplain along
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Bangladesh’s Garment Industry Hit Rough Patch in 2019, Trade Group Chief Says 0
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- December 28, 2019
By Jesmin Papri on Dec 26, 2019 Bangladesh’s garment industry, the engine of the nation’s exports, has shrunk since July and must diversify to stay competitive in the world marketplace, the head of the sector’s most powerful trade group told BenarNews in an interview this week. The ready-made garments (RMG) sector has seen dozens of
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Myanmar Leader Slammed in Top UN Court For Apologia, Silence on Rohingya Atrocities 0
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- December 13, 2019
By Special to BenarNews on Dec 12, 2019 Lawyers for Gambia lambasted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday for her defense of the country against genocide charges at the U.N.’s highest court, despite credible and copious evidence of military-led atrocities against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, and repeated their call for “provisional measures” to
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Bangladesh: Rohingya Rally, Pray for Justice in ICJ Case against Myanmar 0
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- December 10, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Dec 10, 2019 Benar News 2019-12-10 As a landmark genocide case against Myanmar opened in The Hague on Tuesday, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh watched the proceedings on TV while thousands staged a mass rally and prayed in defiance of government restrictions on such demonstrations. Officials in Cox’s
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Trip to The Hague by Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Draws Mixed Reviews 0
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- December 10, 2019
By Special to BenarNews on Dec 09, 2019 06:25 pm Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi left for the Netherlands at the weekend to defend her country against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with loyalists rallying for big sendoffs, while rights activists and ethnic groups questioned her decision to back
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