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Posts published in “Day: September 18, 2017

RAB arrests suspected member of Neo-JMB at Dhaka’s Banani

report in bdnews24.com, Sept 18, 2017 Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested a man at Banani in Dhaka suspecting him to be a member of the outlawed militant group, the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or Neo-JMB. The elite police unit detained the suspect, identified as ‘Mahmud’ alias ‘Mishu’ aka ‘Helal’, at a travel agency, Musa International, on Sunday night. RAB-11 Senior ASP Md Alep Uddin told bdnews24.com that former East West University student Mahmud was…

How Violence in Myanmar Radicalized a New Generation of Rohingya

By HANNAH BEECH in The NY Times online, SEPT. 17, 2017 BALUKHALI, Bangladesh — Nazir Hossain, the imam of a village in far western Myanmar, gathered the faithful around him after evening prayers last month. In a few hours, more than a dozen Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighters from his village would strike a nearby police post with an assortment of handmade weapons. The men needed their cleric’s blessing. “As imam, I encouraged them never…

ARSA, Chaos and Ethnic Cleansing by Myanmar Military Junta: by Selim Sher in bd24news.com

The writer, a retired Professor of Economics at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada and a researcher on politics in South Asia. The recent exodus of approximately 400,000 Rohingyas from the Arakan province of Myanmar to the coastal part of Bangladesh is the result of systematic ethnic cleansing. This ethnic cleansing is due to the religion and the skin colour of the Rohingyas. Historically these inhabitants have lived in the Arakan province of Myanmar for hundreds of…

The Lattice Warning to China: edit in The Wall St Journal, Sept 15, 2017 at 6.08pm ET

The U.S. on Wednesday blocked the Chinese government’s attempt to buy Lattice Semiconductor Corp. , a manufacturer of advanced computer chips with military applications. Beijing’s American proxy, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, refused to withdraw its bid even after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, ruled against the deal. Beijing wants to use the case as an example of Trump Administration protectionism, but that would be a mistake. The decision on…

Fair polls impossible without neutral govt role: Sujan

Report in Prothom Alo, Sept 16, 2017 at 22.34hrs Civil society members at a roundtable said a fair election would be impossible if the government did not play a neutral role during the elections. Citizens for Good Governance (Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik, Sujan), the civil society platform for good governance, organised the roundtable titled on ‘Specific Steps for Fair Polls’ at the National Press Club on Saturday. The participants said the country will fall into serious…

Chinese firm’s stake in Ukraine military aircraft engine maker ‘frozen’

By Liu Zhen in South China Morning Post, Sept 16, 2017 at 10.27 pm A court in the Ukraine has frozen the shares controlled by a Chinese firm in one of the world’s largest aircraft and helicopter engine manufacturers, according to Ukrainian media reports. The move effectively blocks the firm’s controlling stake in the aerospace manufacturer Motor Sich, whose products include military aircraft engines. The Ukrainian security services allege that the purchase of the company’s…

China’s arms industry reform bears fruits: Report in Global Times, Sept 17, 2017

China’s largest arms manufacturer became a stock-holding company after the SOE structural reform. China North Industries Group Corporation, also known as Norinco Group, started mixed ownership pilot reforms at its tank factory in Baotou, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was once a state-owned business. “We’ve introduced private capital and reallocated resources, so it’s no longer a state-owned company. It is now transparent financially, but of course, the defense technology remains confidential. Now it’s…