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  • Bangladesh Blocks Website after it Reported on Controversial Ad0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on May 22, 2019 A front-page ad that ran in Bangladesh’s major newspapers last week and contained controversial statements about how to identify “radical Muslims” has raised questions about who paid for it and whether coverage of the matter led the government to block a popular online news site. The Bangladesh

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  • Bangladesh, India Share Intelligence on Potential Militant Attacks0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on May 20, 2019 Bangladeshi authorities are taking action to stop potential militant attacks in the country and in neighboring India after receiving intelligence information from New Delhi, the home minister said Monday. The country’s border guard is on alert to be vigilant against any cross-border attack by the banned militant

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  • Bangladesh Journalists Protest Order Limiting Courtroom Reporting0

    Pulack Ghatack Dhaka 2019-05-17 Bangladeshi journalists asked the nation’s top court on Friday to withdraw its order prohibiting them from reporting details of trials that are in progress. The Supreme Court registrar’s office issued the order, also known as a circular, after online and television news reports divulged details of a recent High Court ruling,

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  • Bangladesh: Chinese Envoy Rapped for Linking Rohingya Crisis to Economic Trade0

    Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Jesmin Papri Dhaka2019-05-10 A Bangladeshi official and political observers on Friday criticized a statement by the Chinese ambassador, who suggested this week that the Rohingya refugee crisis could be solved through economic development in neighboring Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Linking the plight of Rohingya Muslims to trade and infrastructure investments in the

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  • Chinese Companies Lobby for Contract to Build Bangladesh’s Second Nuclear Plant0

    Kamran Reza Chowdhury, Dhaka, 2019-05-09 Three Chinese companies have started lobbying Bangladesh for a contract to build the nation’s second nuclear power plant, officials said, as the government pushed to finish its first multibillion-dollar Russian-backed nuclear reactor within five years. Mahbubul Hoq, chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, told BenarNews that officials of three Chinese

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  • Bangladesh’s Ruling Party Signs MoU with China’s Communist Party0

    Pulack Ghatack Dhaka 2019-03-21 Officials from the Chinese Communist Party and Bangladesh’s Awami League exchange copies of a memorandum of understanding on boosting cooperation between the leading political parties of the two countries, in Dhaka, March 21, 2019. Representatives of Bangladesh’s Awami League (AL) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) signed the first-ever memorandum

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  • Bangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say0

    Prapti Rahman, Dhaka, 2019-03-18 Bangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say A retired diplomat who went missing in Bangladesh in December 2017 has returned home, his daughters said Monday, but they declined to give further information. The case looked set to become the latest in a series of unsolved disappearances in the

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  • Chinese Embassy Official: No Money Offered to Rohingya in Bangladesh0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Mar 07, 2019 Benar News China has not offered Rohingya refugees money to repatriate to Myanmar, a Chinese Embassy attaché in Dhaka told BenarNews, after the news outlet reported that a delegation of officials from Beijing had promised refugee families up to U.S. $6,000 each if they

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  • Bangladesh: ICC Officials will Visit Rohingya Camps0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Mar 06, 2019 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors will visit refugee camps in Bangladesh later this week as part of an examination into a mass exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar that began in August 2017, Bangladeshi officials said Wednesday. The ICC team was due to arrive on Friday in Cox’s

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  • Even with a Harvard pedigree, caste follows ‘like a shadow’0

    WGBH News March 05, 2019 By Phillip Martin This article is part one of the “Caste in America” series. This series was supported by funding from the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with WGBH. Like many migrants to America from India, Suraj Yengde is well-educated. At 30, he has a doctorate and a masters of

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  • Chinese Envoy Offered Rohingya Money to Return to Myanmar: Sources0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Mar 05, 2019 04:01 pm A Chinese government delegation met Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, promising each refugee up to U.S. $6,000 if they returned to Rakhine state in Myanmar, a Bangladeshi official and refugee leaders said Tuesday. Sun Gouxiang, China’s special envoy for Asian Affairs, met with

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  • Bangladesh to Launch Crackdown in Wake of Massive Dhaka Fire0

    • Blog
    • February 22, 2019

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Feb 22, 2019 Bangladeshi authorities said Friday they would launch a crackdown to stop businesses from illegally keeping chemical warehouses with highly flammable materials near residential areas, after a massive overnight fire killed nearly 70 people in Dhaka’s old section. The Dhaka South City Corporation said it would lead the

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  • India, Saudi Arabia Agree to Exert Pressure on ‘Terror-Supporting’ Countries0

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    • February 21, 2019

    By Rohit Wadhwaney on Feb 20, 2019 02:00 pm The leaders of India and Saudi Arabia vowed to increase pressure on countries that back terrorism as they met Wednesday amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad over last week’s deadly militant attack on security forces in Indian Kashmir. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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  • Kashmir Attack New Rallying Point Ahead of Indian Polls0

    • Blog
    • February 19, 2019

    By Rohit Wadhwaney on Feb 19, 2019 Nationwide outrage over a militant assault that killed nearly 50 security personnel in Indian Kashmir last week and escalated tensions with rival Pakistan could boost India’s Hindu nationalist government ahead of an imminent general election, analysts said Tuesday. Last Thursday’s suicide bombing “can come as a major boon”

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