Visiting the national museum in Jakarta. Indonesia - a land of so many ethnicities and archeological wonde...
July 29, 2010
July 28, 2010
Minimum Wages Raised For Garments Sector In Bangladesh
Ever wonder where were your T-shirts or pants made? If you are living in North America or in Western Europe, there is a high chance that you are wearing a cloth made in Bangladesh. And no wonder Bangladesh’s export earnings are mostly determined by the export of ready-made garments (RMG) which is about 75% of the total export earning of the country.
But in recent times the textile sector has seen some confrontation between the workers and their...
July 26, 2010
Power And Money
This is a story of any developing country where the rich and powerful reign and the the people do not exercise or do not have their equal right.
I was surprised to see some street vendors trying to sell a photocopy version of an edition of Tempo news magazine (in Bahasa) . I did not understand what the vendor was saying but the news was allover in the media in the following days. It turned out that on 28th of June Tempo published a report on huge...
And We Missed This Important News
Bangladesh sets a world record – 5 million CFLs distributed in a day
- Ashok Sarkar at World Bank Blog
If you were in Bangladesh in June, you would have found teachers in schools, preachers in mosques, and ads in newspapers, television, loudspeakers and pamphlets, encouraging people to bring in their incandescent bulbs to exchange with new Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) – and encouraged they were! On Saturday, June 19th 2010, at over 1,400 rural and urban distribution centers spread across 27 districts, manned by teachers, utility workers and...
July 25, 2010
Irregular Verbs
These are some verbs that are slow like a turtleI conjugateYou conjugateHe conjugatesAnd since everyone is afraid with the lack of constitutional rightsI don’t writeYou don’t writeHe doesn’t writeFor if one writes all the thoughts under the veilI go to jailYou go to jailHe goes to jail
- Venezuelan Poet Aquiles Nazoa
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