EC GIVES HOPE TO BANGLADESHI EXPORTERS
With the expiry of multi-fibre arrangement (MFA) by the end of 2004, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules will be applied in international trading. It means the quota system that ensures a certain level of export for Bangladesh will also go.
Bangladesh and other least developed countries (LDCs) have requested the EC to provide them with 30 per cent quota facility for readymade garments, rice, sugar and some other low technology based export items. Bangladesh feels that without the quota system, Bangladeshi...
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The World Cup Goal-E Project
This street in Bangladesh has a colorful world cup celebration
New Chum Hill Ruins
Remnants of Kiandra gold mine at New Chum Hill, #nsw #australia
November 29, 2003
Saturday, November 29, 2003
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MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
The onion reports:
Bill Tepfer, an associate service-department manager at Shademaster Tent & Awning Supply, was ordered by his supervisor Monday to determine the party responsible for not flushing the second-floor toilet.
We had a similar crisis in our office recently when we were even thinking of puting up a notice containing demo "How to use toilet".
Seems like this is a global crisis and much efforts and policies are needed to tackle this sensistive iss...
Saturday, November 29, 2003
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Wringed and unable to breathe by Wal-Mart
There is an article in The Seattle Times, which describes how Wal-Mart is pressing its third world suppliers to supply the shirts and sorts it sells by millions at a lower price. Bangladeshi factory owners say Wal-Mart and other retailers have asked them to cut prices by as much as 50 percent in recent years.
One apparel manufacturer described a visit from a Wal-Mart buyer who showed him a European-made garment that retailed for $100 to $130. The buyer asked the Bangladeshi to produce a knockoff for...
November 25, 2003
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
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A PRAYER
Let us raise our hands and pray to the Almighty for peace, for a world free from hatred and terrorism:
O Lord! Keep us alive with the peace
And enter us into the Abode of peace
Blessed is Thee; O our Lord!
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where, there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sickness, jo...
EID GREETINGSI take this opportunity to wish every person I can reach with this weblog a happy Eid. Let the festivity touch everybody and let us hope for a peaceful coexistence of people of all color, religion and race in the world without hatred or friction.Eid is a Muslim festival. After the month of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting and abstinence, on the first day of the month Shawwal, Muslims celebrate Eid, which means 'festivity' in Arabic. This Eid is called Eid-ul-Fitr (first of the two in a year), which is the celebration of Allah's...
November 24, 2003
Monday, November 24, 2003
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QUOTES OF THE DAY
To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
- Henrik Ibsen
The interest of a writer and the interests of his readers are never the same and if, on occassion, they happen to coincide, this is a lucky accident.
- W. H. AUDE...
Monday, November 24, 2003
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DEAR BANGLADESH
This is the title of an article in JEWSWEEK written by Richard L. Benkin who portrays the real Bangladesh and its potentials when it is usually wrongly portrayed as a Muslim country where fundamentalists mullahs dominate and religious minorities are oppressed. A few such highlighted incidents are based to judge a country and its nation.
Richard starts with:
Bangladesh is a tiny country, and not one you hear about very often, but it could teach a host of lessons on pluralism, religious tolerance, and maybe even peacemaking in...
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