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• Bangladesh: The Blowback of Corruption Canadian company leaves environmental scars, trail of allegations.
• Global Voices Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media
• Riyadh Police have arrested more than 800 men recently for violating dress code - low waist jeans and afro hairstyle.
• The making of a concrete jungle in Dhaka; gone are the days of living in bungalows with gardens..
• TV ratings shake-up challenges Nielsen.
• Using the 'Steal-O-Meter' to Gauge if Stories Steal or Promote

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Interesting Links

• The 20 most popular names on Facebook
• People power in China
• 100 movie lines in 200 seconds
• SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone
• Too Much [Internet] Bad for Marriage
• Bangladesh's women are in the house
• Bangladesh dropped from religious freedom watch list
• Nobel laureate develops low-cost health care system for Bangladesh
• Bangladesh blamed for absence of ‘hilsa’

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Links of the day

• Internet Enemies
• Why Hamas is no ‘extremist’
• How Social Media War Was Waged in Gaza-Israel Conflict
• Case Study: Applying Facebook Technology To Online Organizing
• Say bye to Jamaat
• Traumatized Rohingya flee squalid life in Bangladesh
• Slowly, Bangladesh shows the world how change is possible
• What am I wearing?

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Links of the day

• Heralding a new dawn in Bangladesh.
• Bangladesh's politics back to normal: An inauspicious rebirth for parliamentary democracy
• Overseas jobs on the wane for Bangladeshis
• Micro loans give half world's poorest a way up
• Mercy dash family denied entry to US
• The Rohingyas

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Today's Links

• An Islamist tide? Bangladesh shows the opposite
• Bangladesh To Export 12 Ships To Europe By 2011
• Bangladeshi uprising
• Making markets with mobiles
• Oppressed Dalits of Bangladesh fight for their future
• Can We Lighten The Load?
• Paradise lost on Maldives' rubbish island

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Today's links

• Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel.
• Primark accused over bad pay in Bangladesh.
• The German Obama?
• Bangladesh 'Beatle hero' move.
• Where are Chinese (and Bangladeshi) Internet Police being trained?
• Highest paid Presidents/PM's around the World.
• 'Facebook terrorists' pose new challenges, warns Bangladeshi general.
• Thoughts on Grameen Bank and foreign aid.
• Microfinance for Rickshaw pullers in progress.

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Web 2.0 Guide

• 100 Blogs that will inspire you to be a better person.
• Who killed the VoIP revolution?
• Causes: The leading way to change the World online.
• Cairo activists use facebook to rattle regime.
• The Moral Economy of Web 2.0 by Henry Jenkins.
• Christine Herron's top ten mashups for social change
• Media attention cartograms
• The conversation has left the Blogosphere
• Demystifying Wikipedia: How to be a model Wikipedia contributor.
• Blogging your way into a business
• Before and After: How Google, Wikipedia have changed our lives - for better and worse
• Building a website with Wordpress: a do it yourself guide.

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Links of the day

• After Defaming Islam & Terrorizing Muslims, Now a Film on Prophet Muhammad of Islam?


• No Connectivity, No Phone, No Electricty, No Problem


• Indonesia Launches Tsunami Warning System


• Sidr-hit Sundarbans grows back strongly


• Bangladesh govt bans ICL coverage


• Bangladeshi population grows at 1.7pc in one year


• Bangladesh Society of New York puts your election obsession to shame


• Who will take over?


• Bangladesh Polls: Drama of Democracy?


• In Bangladesh: Hoping for Change

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Today's links

• Cashing on slaves: A mobile-phone service for low-income workers in UAE launched.
• Amnesty condemns 'horror' of Saudi executions.
• Military invades Bangladesh's judiciary.
• Bangladesh: Poor braced for "Monga" season.
• Bangladesh slaps ban on Hilsha catch in the Bay of Bengal.
• Climate change ground zero.
• Moved by a Crescent: Maureen Dowd on the Muslim American Soldier.
• What would be result if the world could vote in the US election?
• Myth of two world largest democracy is dedicated to secularism.
• Nobel Peace Prize in anti-Islamic world.
  

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Today's links

• Bangladesh: Jamaat's charter in clash with country's constitution


• Bangladeshi journalist says govt should conduct checks for workers


• Train travel in Bangladesh


• Bangladesh's Yunus says global financial meltdown to hit poor


• Take industries out of Dhaka


• China to help fund Burma-Bangladesh friendship road


• Why school shootings happen in affluent cultures?


• Islam, Democracy And Violence


• Berlin announces plans for world's largest community electric car infrastructure

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Today's links

• Political parties in Bangladesh ordered to register or face ban


• Bangladeshi workers attacked by ghosts


• A resignation at Grameenphone gets attention


• A change of hearth


• Surf's up, in Bangladesh


• Bangladesh issues 'mercy certificates' to graft-tainted


• Police told to end open defiance


• Run Tata Run


• Political disaster in motion

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Today's links

• International Religious Freedom Report 2008 on Bangladesh by US State Depertment

• Hizbut-Tahrir Bangladesh: Islamist Movement under Terror Scanner

• JMB threatens to bomb Rajshahi police stations
  

• Bangladesh to have information law
  

• Bangladesh’s undernourished rise by 7.3 mn
  

• Earthquake Hits Dhaka Bangladesh on 20 September 2008 at 17:53:39 Hour BDT
  

• Bangladesh bans Chinese powdered milk amid health panic

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Today's links

• Bangladesh anti-graft drive crumbling.

• Two ladies: Seeds of their discord?

• Bangladesh looks to settle Maritime boundary dispute.

• DU teacher among 11 Hijbut Tahrir activists held for militant ties.

• Rebel Bangladeshi cricketers banned for 10 years.

• Bangladesh launches 100-day job scheme for poor.

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Directory of Bangladeshi Blogs

A cool new Bangladeshi Blog Directory was launched recently by Tanim. Check it out (click the image):

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Today's Links

*Local government practice in Bangladesh: A perspective

* Bangladesh’s diplomat rebuts Selig Harrison on anti-terror efforts

* Bangladesh may become middle income country in 17 years: UN

* Steaming into Bangladesh.

* Momtaz, the traveling songbird of Bangladesh.

* No country for gentlemen and gentlewomen.

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Today's Links

*Is Bangladesh's December election cancelled?

* How to engineer elections: A quick guide

* Bangladesh prepares new voter list.

* Run VOIP in your house and get arrested.

* 7 Reasons why Bangladesh should never allow transit to India.

* Bangladesh says 4 civilians killed in border clash

* BSF jawan killed in exchange of fire

* Bangladesh proposes legalisation of cattle trade along border.

* Book Review: 'The Peacekeeper' by Shabbir Ahsan

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Today's Links

* Indians 'kill Bangladesh guards'

* The tamasha that is SAARC - Who really cares and benefits?

* Bangladesh has one of highest trade barriers: World Bank

* Bangladesh attorney general quits.

* A Refined Pakistan Model in Bangladesh?

* U.N. hails Bangladesh's anti-graft drive.

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Today's Links

* Bangladesh makes Internet use free for primary schools.

* Bringing Bangladesh into the Internet age.

* Bribe-takers found in Bangladesh's anti-corruption body.

* India, Bangladesh pay too much for state workers: study

* BANGLADESH: Arsenic detector saving lives.

* Bangladesh ex-PM offers olive branch to rivals.

* Terrorists in Bangladesh?

* Bangladesh: Government is silent on Al Qaida presence.

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Today's Links

* General Command.

* Bangladesh 'losing on corruption'.

* Bangladesh: Violent politics risks huge growth potential

* The 5 best places to invest

* Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century.

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Today's Links

* A Jewish State in Germany as an Artwork.

* So you want to become a German citizen?

* Obama is a hawk.

* Package reads “Product of Bangladesh”

* Bangladesh makes Internet use free for primary schools

* Bangladesh's per capita income goes up to $599

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