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BANGLADESH News:
20081202
 Dick
Cheney -  KBR
-  Corporation
-  Military
-  Laborers
- Human
Rights -  Texas
-  US
-  Iraq
-  India
-  Nepal
-  Sri
Lanka - Bangladesh
"Military
contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses."
... "About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to
the U.S. [United States] military have been confined for as long as three
months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad [Iraq's capital] airport
without money or a place to work." ... "Najlaa International Catering Services,
a subcontractor to KBR [formerly a Halliburton subsidiary, the corporation
formerly run by Republican Vice President Dick Cheney], an engineering,
construction and services company, hired the men, who're from India, Nepal,
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their
compound to protest their living conditions." ... "The laborers said they
paid middlemen more than $2,000 to get to Iraq for jobs that they were
told would earn them $600 to $800 a month." ... "The conditions in which
the men have been held appear to violate guidelines the U.S. military handed
down in 2006 that urged contractors to deter human trafficking to the war
zone by shunning recruiters that charged excessive fees." -By
Adam Ashton -McClatchyDC.com
20080820
 John
McCain -  Family
- US
- Bangladesh
-  Vietnam
-  History
- 2008
Election
"Watchdogs
make it harder for politicians to stretch the truth:
Cindy McCain's past is the latest to be questioned after errors were found."
... "The latest embellishments come from the [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate John] McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred
to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has
two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with
them." ... "The McCain campaign had also put out the story that Mother
Teresa “convinced” Cindy to bring home two orphans from Bangladesh in 1991."
... "Mrs. McCain, it turns out, never met Mother Teresa on that trip."
... "In another instance, McCain told the Chicago Tribune earlier this
year that on one of her medical missions to Vietnam she was in “the very
hospital – and in the very room – where her husband was brought after being
shot down and then beaten by a mob during the war.”" ... "A 1992 Washington
Times story recounts a different version: “Mrs. McCain asked to see the
operating room and her husband’s cell, but was turned down. She took the
rejection philosophically. ‘It’s 27 years later. Let’s go on,’ Mrs. McCain
said.”" -By Alexandra Marks
-CSMonitor
20080414
-
Emergency
- Economy
-
 Politics
-  Haiti
- Bangladesh
-  Egypt
- United
States -  World
- Poor
-  People
- Historical
- 
- Children
-  Health
- Mind
- "Riots,
instability spread as food prices skyrocket." ...
"Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic
foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the
forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global
development said Monday." ... ""This is the world's big story," said Jeffrey
Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute." ... ""The finance
ministers were in shock, almost in panic this weekend," he said on CNN's
"American Morning," in a reference to top economic officials who gathered
in Washington. "There are riots all over the world in the poor countries
... and, of course, our own poor are feeling it in the United States.""
... "World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the surging costs could
mean "seven lost years" in the fight against worldwide poverty." ... ""The
international community must fill the at least $500 million food gap identified
by the U.N.'s [United Nations] World Food Programme to meet emergency needs,"
he said. "Governments should be able to come up with this assistance and
come up with it now."" ... ""In just two months," Zoellick said in his
speech, "rice prices have skyrocketed to near historical levels, rising
by around 75 percent globally and more in some markets, with more likely
to come. In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about
half of the daily income of a poor family."" ... "The price of wheat has
jumped 120 percent in the past year, he said -- meaning that the price
of a loaf of bread has more than doubled in places where the poor spend
as much as 75 percent of their income on food." ... ""This is not just
about meals forgone today or about increasing social unrest. This is about
lost learning potential for children and adults in the future, stunted
intellectual and physical growth," Zoellick said."
-CNN
20070803
-
India
-
 Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Nepal
-  Weather
-  Floods
- History
- UN
- People
- Children
-  Homes
- "Millions
flee 'worst ever' floods." ... "Monsoon rains in
South Asia have driven millions from their homes and caused what the United
Nations says is the worst flooding in living memory." ... "More than 1,000
people have been killed or injured by rising waters, but aid agencies say
the figure is expected to rise sharply." ... "U.N. children's body UNICEF
said it had lost track of how many people had been affected by the floods
across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal." ... "So far about 20 million
people are known to have fled their homes or trapped in villages at risk
from landslides, snakebites and disease." ... ""Hundreds of thousands have
lost their homes, their possessions, livestock and fields and will have
to begin their lives from scratch when flood waters recede," UNICEF said."
-CNN
20051018
-
 Chad
- Bangladesh
-  Iceland
- "Group:
Chad, Bangladesh are most corrupt." ... "Bangladesh
and Chad were ranked most corrupt on a global watchdog group's annual list
of corruption levels in 159 nations, released Tuesday. At the other end
of the scale, Iceland was ranked least corrupt." ... "To form its annual
corruption index, Transparency International asked businessmen, academics
and public officials about how countries they live in or do business with
are perceived." ... "On a scale of one to 10, Bangladesh and Chad both
scored 1.7, meaning that graft is perceived as being rampant. The least
corrupt country, Iceland, scored 9.7." -By Emily Behlmann
-AP via -SeattlePI.NWsource
20050818
-
 Bangladesh
- Religion
- 
- "Bangladesh
security forces arrest 87 in connection with bombings -police chief."
... "Bangladesh security forces have arrested 87 people in connection with
a wave of simultaneous bombings that police said were linked to a banned
group of Muslim extremists." ... "'We launched a nationwide crackdown and
so far we have arrested 87 people,' Abdul Kaiyum, Bangladesh's Inspector
General of Police, told Agence France-Presse. 'Our forces are everywhere.
We are on the highest alert.'" ... "Around 350 small homemade bombs exploded
yesterday within an hour of each other in almost every town or district
across the country, killing two people and injuring more than 100." ...
"The home ministry said leaflets from the outlawed Jamayetul Mujahideen
were found at all of the bomb sites, calling for the installation of Islamic
law in Bangladesh, the third-largest Muslim-majority nation in the world."
-AFXNews via -Forbes
-
Bangladesh
-
- Religion
-
- "Bombings
across Bangladesh leave 2 dead and 125 injured: Leaflets
from a banned Islamic group were found at many sites of the nearly simultaneous
explosions, which caused panic in cities." ... "More than 100 homemade
bombs planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded nearly simultaneously
across Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing two people, including a young boy,
and wounding at least 125." ... "Police said the bombs apparently were
designed to cause limited damage. The blasts killed a bicycle rickshaw
driver in the northern town of Chapainawabganj and a 10-year-old boy in
the central town of Savar." -By Julhas Alam
-AP via -ChicagoTribune
-
Bangladesh
-
-
- "Bangladesh
intensifies probe into blasts." ... "Bangladeshi
security forces intensified a hunt on Thursday for militants who simultaneously
set off hundreds of crude bombs across the country, killing two people
and injuring about 100." ... "Roughly 200 homemade bombs exploded on the
streets, at courts and near key government buildings in various places
across the Islamic nation shortly after Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia
left Dhaka on Wednesday on a five-day visit to China." ... "In the capital
Dhaka, an elite security force used sniffer dogs searching for suspects
and bombs in key areas, including hotels, and in diplomatic areas, witnesses
said." -By Serajul Islam Quadir and Masud Karim
-Reuters via -AlertNet.org
-
Bangladesh
-
-
- Religion
- "Bombings
strike Bangladesh." ... "The bombs reportedly targeted
mainly government offices, bus and train stations, and markets in 63 of
the country's 64 districts." ... "Most of Bangladesh's 141 million people
are Muslim." ... "Bangladesh has many of the same demographic and cultural
factors at play that led to the rise of militant Islam in nearby Pakistan
and in Afghanistan. In particular, it has a network of Deobandi religious
schools, or madrassas that, like Pakistan's, have contributed to radicalization
of many poor youth." -CSMonitor
and -AP via -SeattleTimes.NWsource
20030102
-
- "19
Journalists Killed [Worldwide] For Their Work In 2002:
Lowest number on record; Russia, Colombia, and the West Bank top list."
... "A total of 19 journalists were killed worldwide for their work in
2002, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). This number
marks a sharp decrease from 2001 when 37 journalists were killed, eight
of them while covering the war in Afghanistan. Of the 19 journalists killed
in 2002, most were targeted in direct reprisal for their work, and their
killers had not been brought to justice at year's end." ... "This is the
lowest number of journalists killed in the line of duty that CPJ has recorded
since it began tracking the deaths in 1985." ... "Still, in 2002, journalists
remained at great risk. In countries such as Russia, Colombia, Pakistan,
India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines, local journalists were murdered
in direct reprisal for their reporting on crime and corruption, most of
them with impunity. Cameramen and photographers were especially vulnerable
to cross fire and targeting by military forces—five were killed in 2002,
including two who were covering conflict in the West Bank." ... "Some statistics
fluctuate from year to year, but others remain constant in such countries
as Russia and Colombia, where journalists die virtually every year because
of their work." -CPJ.org
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