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UN warns that 2 boats adrift in the Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately ...

Newsday 05 Dec 2023
The boats apparently embarked from Bangladesh and are reported to have been at sea for about two weeks, he said.Get the Breaking News newsletter! ... About 740,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to the camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, after a brutal counterinsurgency campaign tore through their communities.
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2 boats adrift in the Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue, UN says

Wtop 05 Dec 2023
The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats in a seasonal exodus — usually from squalid, overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh — has been rising since last year due to cuts to food rations and a spike in gang violence ... The boats apparently embarked from Bangladesh and are reported to have been at sea for about two weeks, he said.
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UN warns that 2 boats adrift on Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue

Wtop 04 Dec 2023
He said the boats that apparently embarked from Bangladesh are reported to have been at sea for about two weeks ... There is a seasonal exodus of Rohingyas, usually coming from overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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Greener ship recycling options emerge

Splash24/7 04 Dec 2023
In other significant shipbreaking news, Pakistan acceded to the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) at the IMO Assembly last week ... “Recyclers at Gadani appear to be prepared to upgrade their facilities and practices to meet the HKC’s standards before the treaty enters into force,” Clarksons Research noted in its latest weekly report.
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Now, low-fare flights from N-E to Bangladesh, Thailand and Myanmar

Indian Express 02 Dec 2023
These will connect Assam to Thailand and Bangladesh, Manipur to Myanmar and Tripura to Bangladesh. To be operational in a few weeks, airfares on these approved routes \u2014 Guwahati-Bangkok, Guwahati-Dhaka, Imphal-Mandalay and Agartala-Chittagong \u2014 under the UDAN scheme, will be subsidised.
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Bangladesh withdraws loan-deposit spread limit after unveiling SMART lending rate

Xinhua 30 Nov 2023
In its bid to boost Bangladesh's shrinking forex reserves, which dropped to less than 20 billion dollars last week, the bank had earlier taken various measures to discourage imports and check soaring inflation ... Bangladesh withdraws loan-deposit spread limit after unveiling SMART lending rate.
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Opposition boycott sets stage for one-sided Bangladesh election

La Prensa Latina 30 Nov 2023
Dhaka, Nov 30 (EFE).– Bangladesh is poised for one-sided election on Jan. 7, as major opposition parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and other Islamist political groups, opted to boycott the polls unless the Awami League government steps down for a poll-time caretaker administration.
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Niharika Momtaz, founder of 1972 unveils 'Heritage Treasures'

Khaleejtimes 29 Nov 2023
Momtaz drew inspiration from the landscapes of UAE and Bangladesh, intertwining patterns and forms into each piece of jewellery ... 1972 marked its presence at Milano Jewelry Week 2023, putting Bangladesh on the global map of this prestigious event.
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Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard

Economist 29 Nov 2023
As it was, he studied biology at Imperial College London and then, in the 1980s, left for Bangladesh ... For most of his life after that, except for another spell in London and his annual three-week whirl at COP, he was in Bangladesh, studying how poor coastal communities could teach themselves, and the world, resilience.\nThey did extremely well.
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Cyclone ‘Michaung’ likely to form over Bay of Bengal in next 48 hours, alerts IMD

India TV 29 Nov 2023
Just a week after Cyclone Midhili’s destructive landfall over ...
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South Korea suspend striker Hwang Ui-jo over illegal video investigation

Al Jazeera 29 Nov 2023
Striker Hwang Ui-jo has been suspended by South Korea seven weeks before the Asian Cup because of a police investigation into allegations he illegally filmed an ex-girlfriend ... list 2 of 4From a coma to captaining Bangladesh ... list 3 of 4Sport Weekly ... over China in Shenzhen last week.
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Bangladesh news update: Russia, US spar over election interference as BNP renews calls for strike

Indian Express 28 Nov 2023
Russia's allegations against Washington Last week, the spotlight was on Russia, which alleged that the United States is attempting to interfere in Bangladesh politics to ensure support for its 'Indo-Pacific strategy.' 'We have spoken repeatedly about the attempts by the United ...
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Gangs, extortion in Bangladesh camps driving Rohingya sea exodus

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain 27 Nov 2023
Holding his son's hand in a temporary shelter in Indonesia, Rohingya Mohamed Ridoi says he made the dangerous 12-day sea journey from massive refugee camps in Bangladesh to escape the pervasive threats of kidnapping, extortion and murder ... "We are not safe in Bangladesh ... They just want to be away from Bangladesh.".
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Bangladesh's July-October imports drop over 24 pct

Xinhua 27 Nov 2023
27 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's imports dropped 24.07 percent year-on-year to nearly 22 billion U.S ... In its bid to boost Bangladesh's shrinking forex reserves, which dropped to less than 20 billion dollars last week, the bank has taken various measures to discourage imports ... Bangladesh's July-October imports drop over 24 pct.
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