• Bangladesh fears fresh militancy with unrest in Myanmar

    DHAKA, June 16 — The outbreak of sectarian violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s bordering Rakhine state apparently exposed frontier south-eastern region of Bangladesh to threats of militancy afresh, security officials and public representatives said. A report released today by Bangladesh National News Agency BSS said the government is very much concerned about…

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  • Tens of thousands suffer inhuman life in Bangladesh-India border

      About 50,000 people are living inhuman life, almost stateless, in the enclaves along the Bangladesh-India border since the great partition of India by the British colonial ruler in 1947. The residents of the enclaves live in abysmal conditions, with a lack of water, roads, electricity, schools and medicines. Crime…

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    Conquering Mt. Everest’s impossible without Sherpas ①

    *This is the first of two-part story about the role of Sherpas they have played for the successful climbing of the Mt. Everest. Kathmandu, June 14: Sherpas have been synonymous to mountaineering since the first Mt. Everest expedition of 1921. “The first Everest Expedition of 1921 had seven to eight Sherpas…

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  • Dhaka: UNHCR must solve root cause of Myanmar refugee

    DHAKA, June 13 — Bangladesh Wednesday (June 13) denied the idea of harboring Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh further as Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni is scheduled to hold dialogue with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) next week.     The foreign minister, however, insisted that the meeting with the UNHCR’s second-in-chief would…

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    Iraqi Bomb Attack Even Kills Innocent Baby

    Karim Hamid kisses the dead body of his nephew Morteda Faleh, who was killed with his father, mother, brother and sister in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, before burial in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. A wave of bombings targeted religious…

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  • Pyongyang jumps into the fray

    Ideological quarrels approaching farce North Korea has joined in the ideological mudslinging among South Korean politicians, turning an already wasteful dogfight into a farce. “If we disclose what some conservative South Korean politicians said in North Korea, most South Koreans will fall down in a fit,” said the North’s Committee…

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    Sim Sang-jung vs. Lim Su-kyung

    The Cheongsong Shim (my surname) family association invited me Monday, in my title as political editor of The Korea Times, to a meeting to celebrate those from the clan elected as lawmakers through the April general elections. They came from three parties with a diverse ideological spectrum ― the conservative…

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  • Society

    Bangladesh helps Myanmar solve sectarian violence

    DHAKAㅡ Bangladesh is in close consultations with Myanmar to check the influx of Rohingya refugees following the sectarian violence in Rakhine state of the neighbouring country, Bangladesh foreign ministry officially stated in Dhaka today (June 12). “Bangladesh and Myanmar are maintaining close consultations to ensure that developments in the Rakhine state…

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  • Discord on primary rules

    Does Park have problems in communication? The ruling Saenuri Party is mired in acute intraparty discord over rules to select a candidate for the presidential election scheduled for Dec. 19. Those who support hopeful candidates other than Park Geun-hye staged protests outside the party headquarters Tuesday in protest against the…

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  • Ideological reflection in S. Korean society

    Last week, a South Korean politician, Lim Soo-kyung, told Joseph Baek, a North Korean defector, who happened to be dining in the same restaurant as her that he was a “son of a bxxxx,’’ a “senseless North Korean defector’’ and a “bastard betrayer.’’ This aroused a heated discussion among South…

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