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Posts published in “Day: June 11, 2017

Why China’s anti-graft watchdog is a stepping stone to higher office

by Jun Mai in South China Morning Post, June 11, 2017 One Communist Party office in China makes more headlines domestically and internationally than any other, and that’s the party’s anti-graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). In the past five years, its crackdown on corruption and campaign against conspicuous consumption have swept aside political factions at the national and local levels and restored party doctrines harking back to the days of Mao…

China’s New Bridges: Rising High, but Buried in Debt

By Chris Buckley in The NY Times, June 10,2017 CHISHI, China — Soaring over a lush valley in southern China, the Chishi Bridge is a 1.4-mile-long marvel of concrete and steel. Four piers, like graceful tuning forks as tall as skyscrapers, secure cables suspending a four-lane expressway 610 feet above fields of corn and rice. Squinting up from a dirt road below, Gu Tianyong, a 66-year-old farmer, pondered the colossus, which is a shortcut linking…

B’desh: Dalits demand quota in govt service, university

Report in The daily star, Juen 11, 2017 Barisal: Members of Dalit and excluded community yesterday formed a human chain in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall of the city to press home their eight-point demand including quota in government service and public university admission. They also called for immediate end to all kinds of discriminations against them at the programme organised by Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM) in cooperation with Nagorik Udyog. The…

Atomic Energy Commission bill placed in parliament

Report in The daily star, Juen 11, 2017 A bill titled “Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Bill, 2017” was placed in Parliament today to update the version of the “Bangladesh Atomic Commission Order, 1973” in Bangla. Science and Technology Minister Architect Yafesh Osman placed the bill in the House and it was then sent to the respective Parliamentary Standing Committee for further scrutiny. The committee was asked to submit its report within a month. According to…