Cambodian authorities have seized more than 3.2 tons of trafficked elephant tusks at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, a senior customs official said on Saturday. The ivory tusks were found on Thursday hidden in an abandoned container that had sat unopened at the port since July, said Sun Chhay, director of the Customs and Excise…
Elisabeth Lopez, University of Melbourne/ Pursuit Security forces and health workers make for prickly, sometimes deadly bedfellows, but investing in partnerships could reap dividends in disease control When Red Cross midwives in Nigeria are killed by militants or hospitals in Syria are deliberately bombed, it might seem perverse, if not downright naïve, to call on…
Dr Mehari Taddele Maru, Scholar of peace and security, law and governance, and human rights and migration issues/Aljazeera Contrary to what the West believes, Africans do not see themselves as victims of Chinese economic exploitation. At the September 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, African Union Chairperson and Rwandan President Paul Kagame lauded…
DOT Desk Maize cultivation is expanding in the district for its popularity among the farmers, reports The Financial Express. Every season cultivators make handsome profit from the crop amid favourable weather condition. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) set a target to bring some 14,925 hectares of land under maize cultivation but over 17,000 hectares…
Insurance claims from last month’s California wildfires already are at $9 billion and expected to increase, the state’s insurance commissioner announced. About $7 billion in claims are from the Camp Fire that destroyed the Northern California city of Paradise and killed at least 86 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least a…
Sejuti Mourin: Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions, have began an indefinite hunger strike protesting for enlistment under the government’s Monthly Payment Order (MPO) facilities. Hundreds of teachers and employees under the banner of “Non-MPO Shikhya Pratishthan Shikhyak Karmachari Federation” gathered in front of the National Press Club at 10 am yesterday. Earlier on…
Aleria Gianotta, Assistant professor at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara/Daily Sabah, Turkey This month, terrorism hit the heart of Europe once again. A second-generation young French man who perpetrated an attack in the French capital became the newest symbol of failed integration. Cherif C., the 29-year-old attacker, is of Moroccan descent and was labeled…
Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob African fraudsters in Bangladesh are staging millions of money by fraudulently cheating. And this money is reaching through some unscrupulous money exchanger in Malaysia. Danesh Raja Raji, a Pakistani citizen,is staying there. The fraudulent money from Bangladesh is reaching out to those concerned with the relatives of deceased. Metropolitan Detective…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda says election code was not violated during the nomination filing process across the country, reports The Daily Star and bdnews24.com. “Nomination filing was complete in an orderly fashion. No one violated the polls code,” he said at a programme in Agargaon yesterday. “They were…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh Banks’s SME loan initiative was a success in increasing & inspiring more female entrepreneurs to build up their dreams. Also, BB’s project is directly finding these bright women and letting them aware of such loaning system. BB reports that, 13,742 female signed-in their names as entrepreneurs…