by Anwar Hussain in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 23, 2017 at 9.50 pm A Banshkhali upazila court in Chittagong district has sent 13 high school teachers to jail on treason charges. Banshkhali Senior Judicial Magistrate Sazzad Hossain passed the order on Wednesday after rejecting the bail petitions of the teachers, who were accused of comparing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with a local BNP leader Liakat Ali in a creative question paper. Banshkhali police station Officer-in-Charge…
Posts published in August 2017
By Andrew deGrandpre in Washington Post, August 22 at 11:23 AM (Andrew deGrandpre is a staff writer at The Washington Post. Previously, he spent more than 11 years as an editor and reporter for Military Times). President Trump delivered a sharp warning to Pakistan on Monday, saying he intends to hold its leaders to account for harboring militant groups responsible for perpetuating instability across the border in Afghanistan. During a prime-time address to the nation,…
By Xie Yu in South China Morning Post, Aug 23, 2017 China’s latest mixed-ownership reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) isn’t to promote privatisation of the state-owned economy. It is the opposite. The current drive aims to reinforce state control over the biggest companies not only by bringing private capital into the fold, but also to indoctrinate private entrepreneurs with the Communist Party’s dictated way of investments, analysts said. “Private sector firms have been given…
By Deng Xiaoci and Yang Sheng in Global Times Published: 2017/8/22 23:28:39 China’s first homegrown aircraft carrier is very likely to start its first sea trials in autumn, as its manufacturer announced that it will present key achievements as a tribute to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp (DSIC) of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), the manufacturer of the Type 001A, posted details of…
Report in The daily star, Aug 23, 2017 The High Court yesterday upheld the death penalty of 15, including three ex-Rab officials and expelled Awami League leader Nur Hossain, for their involvement in conspiracy, abduction and killing of seven Narayanganj men in 2014. The court, however, commuted the capital punishment of 11 others to life imprisonment. It fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default of which they have to spend two more years in prison.…
By Wang Jiamei in Global Times, Aug 21, 2017 at 18:48:39 The author is a reporter with the Global Times Many say that winter is coming for China’s Internet finance sector as the National Financial Work Conference in July emphasized strengthening supervision over the sector. After years of explosive but unruly growth, the online finance market requires cooling through tighter regulation. China’s Internet finance industry has surpassed its counterparts in the US and other Western…
Report in Global Times, Aug 20, 2017 at 23:13:39 The high failure rate in the physical examination of the annual military recruitment, which began in early August, has drawn attention to the health issues of the young generation. According to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily, the number of candidates participating in the physical examination has increased this year but the dropout rate in one city has reached as high as 56.9 percent. The PLA…
By Bai Tiantian in Global Times. Aug 22, 2017 Changsha: A Chinese lawyer charged for inciting State subversion stood trial on Tuesday at the People’s Intermediate Court of Changsha, in Central China’s Hunan Province. The trial of Jiang Tianyong started at 9:30 am on Tuesday and was broadcast on the court’s Sina Weibo account. Jiang, 46, was a former lawyer in Beijing but barred from practicing law by the Beijing Justice Bureau in 2009. The…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 21, 2017, at 10:02 PM Bangladesh’s intelligence agencies are monitoring Facebook, Twitter, cyber games, WhatsApp and other social media very closely to get a tight grip on all sorts of internet-based militant activities, says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. “The social media is now under close surveillance to root out militancy and its activities,” he told reporters on Monday after a meeting of the National Committee on Militancy Resistance and…
Report in The daily star, Aug 21, 2017 Ten leaders and activists of Harkatul Jihad al Islami were awarded death penalty yesterday for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting a bomb weighing 76kg in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara in July 2000. The convicts will be able to appeal to the High Court within 30 days. Judge Mamtaz Begum of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-2 in Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, aug 20, 2017 at 10:42 PM Interpol is currently in pursuit of a Bangladeshi-born Canadian who is believed to have been trained by the Islamic State for suicide attacks in Europe, according to a Canadian media outlet Global News. Tabirul Hasib, 25, is among 173 Islamic State fighters Interpol has named as potential suicide bombers, based on data uncovered by US intelligence. The list was distributed amid concerns that, as Islamic…