by Abu Siddique in Dhaka Tribune, May 16, 2017 The nation’s food supply is likely to face a threat from the loss of Boro production in the current season from early flash-floods in the Haor wetlands, as well as pest attacks on paddy crops across the country. To add to the crisis, rice reserves in both the public and private sectors are at their lowest in recent memory. Rice prices are already unusually high and…
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by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, May 16, 2017 Ershad was unhappy and disappointed with the abrupt opposition of certain alliance leaders at the very first meeting The 58-party United National Alliance (UNA) faced a setback in its first meeting on Monday as many of its leaders opposed to the alliance chief HM Ershad’s decisions. However, the alliance’s spokesperson said the leaders agreed to accept some of the decisions. The meeting was held at HM…
Report in The daily star, May 16, 2017 The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its earlier verdict that handed convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee imprisonment until death for his crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. Effectively now, Sayedee would have to serve in jail until his natural death. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed two separate petitions filed by Sayedee and the…
edit in The Washington Post, May 15, 2017 at 7.36pm IT HAS BEEN called China’s version of the Marshall Plan: a $1 trillion complex of infrastructure investment and aid stretching from Kyrgyzstan to Central Europe, with extensions to Southeast Asia, Africa and even Latin America. President Xi Jinping, who touted the “belt and road” initiative at a heavily orchestrated two-day summit that concluded in Beijing on Monday, clearly hopes the geopolitical effects will be analogous.…
by Richard Ghiasy in South China Morning Post, May 15, 2017, 11:26pm (The author is a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s China and Global Security Programme) China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” has deservedly received tremendous attention in China and beyond, partly due to its ambition and promise, but also because China has put a lot of effort into promoting it since it was launched in late 2013. The belt and road forum…
By Emily Rauhala and Simon Denyer in The Washington Post, May 15, 2017 at 8:31 AM It’s easy to laugh at the sheer cheesiness of the promotional campaign for the “Belt and Road Forum” in Beijing. In one video released in the run-up to the meeting, a father reads his rapt daughter a bedtime story about President Xi Jinping’s infrastructure plan. In another, a group of children express “gratitude” for the $900 billion initiative: “The…
by Ammar Rashid in Daily Times, 16-May-17 The writer is a researcher in gender, development and public policy and a political worker for the Awami Workers Party. If one goes by some of the public response to the televised appearances of TTP’s Ehsanullah Ehsan and ISIS recruit Noreen Leghari, there is something about the possibility of rehabilitating jihadi militants that can turn the most hawkish of Pakistani politicians and right-wingers into reconciliatory peaceniks. Sadly, the…