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TRUTH COMMISSION FOR BUSINESSMEN
A differentiation in law, not discrimination
Sadeq Khan
In a nationally circulated daily on October 5, a diplomatic report had two-column bold headline. The headline read, there cannot be two different laws for politicians and for businessmen, British official remarked. Indeed in the text of the story as published by the same newspaper, no such remark could be found. In other words, the copy editor or the news editor decided to insert a spin, twisting the diplomatically coined exact remarks of the visiting British foreign and common wealth office director for Asia, John Denis. His exact words were as follows: "whether the truth commission or reconciliation commission may be effective in the current context is for the Bangladesh people to decide...[ FULL STORY ]
CORRUPTION CHARGES
Critics find double standards in dealing with local, foreign firms
Faruque Ahmed
A new debate is attracting increasing public attention over whether the government is applying double standards in dealing with local businesses and expatriate firms facing similar charges of irregularities and corruption. There is also a section of people who wonders whether the present reformist caretaker government will take any move to establish greater control on trade and economic issues, breaking the existing external domination which is now outmanoeuvring local stakeholders in various ways...[ FULL STORY ]
ACTION AGAINST MYANMAR JUNTA
Dhaka should not sacrifice its interests to please the West
M. Shahidul Islam
Democracy and constitutionalism are not shaky in Bangladesh alone, the entire South and South East Asia regions are undergoing a massive transformation, causing constitutional governance to beat a retreat and a sweeping militarization of the polity from Pakistan to Thailand...[ FULL STORY ]
'CYNICAL MANOEUVRES BY BIG POWERS'
ASEAN backs neither US nor
China over Burma
Thalif Deen in United Nations
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Burma (Myanmar) is a member, is refusing to see eye-to-eye either with the United States or China on how the international community should deal with the ongoing crisis in the politically-troubled military-run country...[ FULL STORY ]
NAT'L GOVT OF CONSENSUS
An exit route for wearied, prolonged caretaker govt?
Shamsuddin Ahmed
It is widely believed that the idea of a national government of consensus floated by Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh President Dr. AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury is that of an exit route for the 10-month-old caretaker government, which is wearied of the dismal political and morbid economic situations...[ FULL STORY ]
Flooding ruins thousands of
educational institutions
Abdur Rahman Khan
The mighty River Padma has devoured a two-storey building adjacent to a playground and the entire school campus on a five-acre plot. However, the devastation could not deter the students of the Banari Multilateral High School in Munshiganj from pursuing their education under a make-shift arrangement in Hasail village under Tongibari upazila...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
K. Z. Islam
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - November 10, 1938) was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President (1923)...[ FULL STORY ]
NEWS NOTES FROM NEW YORK
Fazle Rashid
UN names Oct 2 as Int'l Non-Violence Day
The United Nations commemorating Gandhi's yeoman services to no-violence has decided to observe October 2, his birthday, as International Non-Violence Day. Sonia Gandhi, no kin of MK Gandhi, has been chosen to postulate the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence...[ FULL STORY ]
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