In one section of the lengthy discourse someone quoted from the daily Star that 150,000 Bangladeshis could not reach their jobsites in the middle-east and far-east through shortage of aircrafts. Just think, if those were able to, and each remited $1000 back home to their families, we would have had US$ 150 million in hard currency! Enough to pay a for a new Boeing 737 or,whatever !!!
Shawkat Anwar
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Some Newspaper Editors have mortgaged their self-respect to their foreign masters. The evil forces have been working against us because we are rising. They have geo-political goal to defame Bangladesh and to halt its prosperious future. They certainly have friends in the media in Bangladesh.
Monirul
Toronto
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Please ask yourself why REUTERS disparages Bangladesh with the same insults in every article
Please see below how global and local media depict the picture of Bangladesh and its economy in a derogatory manner. We have to rise up and think about how to counter the global media terrorism against Bangladesh and how to discipline the local media in favor of patriotism. Thanks and regards. Wohid
The Daily Star, a newspaper edited by Mahfuz Anam (the man's editorial skills are rather thin as can be expected from an ex-civil servant), reproduced in its entirety an article with the usual insulting editorial line:" Money sent home by Bangladeshi expatriate workers underpin the economy of the impoverished nation of 144 million people." This style is adopted with zeal in almost every article on Bangladesh by the regional editorial staff in India, such that Bangladesh remains a dirty enigma imprinted in the mind of the reader worldwide. It's a deliberate attempt to delegitimise Bangladesh in the eyes of the world. It's a very successful technique. Sadly, Bangladesh newspapers just play along meekly. Most serious newspapers always put in their own perspective in any news agency reporting. What's wrong with Bangladesh media?Taslima
Budget airline AirAsia will begin operating from Bangladesh this month after the authorities adopted a three-month "open sky" policy allowing foreign airlines more flights, an official said Monday.
From October 1 to December 31, Bangladesh hopes to clear a backlog of 150,000 people who have jobs waiting abroad but no flights to get them there.
"AirAsia has availed the opportunity and we have allowed them to fly five flights a week from the port city of Chittagong to Kuala Lumpur," Bangladesh civil aviation authority chief Shakeb Iqbal Khan Majlish said.
"They said they would operate Airbus A330 aircraft with a capacity of 312 passengers. They would start flights from the middle of October," he said.
The airline had also been given permission to continue flights after December 31, he added.
AirAsia will be the second budget airline to operate from Chittagong, the country's second biggest city with a population of around five million.
Sharjah-based Air Arabia was the first to operate budget flights six months ago and they have gradually increased their weekly flights from three to seven.
AirAsia, which was launched as a budget carrier in December 2001 with just two aircraft, has become a significant player in the industry and been imitated by national carriers along with a host of new low-cost entrants.
AirAsia operates from a dedicated low-cost terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and boasts southeast Asia's biggest low-cost fleet. It also operates in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and China.
Majlish said the entry of AirAsia into the market would help clear the backlog. Some 150,000 people who have found jobs in Malaysia and the Middle East have been unable to fly because of a shortage of flights.
Money sent home by Bangladeshi expatriate workers underpin the economy of the impoverished nation of 144 million people.
The government's manpower export department pleaded for the open sky policy for a limited period to meet demand after a record 520,000 people went abroad for work in the first eight months of 2007, a 123 percent increase over the same period a year earlier.
Please ask yourself why there so much dire prediction on Bangladesh and yourselves? Why such desperate attempt to slander Bangladesh? Ask yourself why tourists are encouraged to travel to Srilanka, India and Nepal despite civil-wars, plagues, riots, floods..?
Such is the myth about Bangladesh, people around the world have the impression it is a killing field like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan or Colombia. It discourages travel into Bangladesh by foreign business people and even Probashi Bengalis who fear for their lives. Even worse such propaganda prevents all sections of Bangladesh citizens getting visas to travel abroad on business or as tourists and students .
Do you remember when a Bangladesh political party and its associates started a campaign that Bangladesh was a Taliban state over 4 years ago in the USA? The consequences started to affect their own supporters and family members as the United States government and employers started to harass them. It was only then that they started to retract the false claims! It was too late and the damage had been done. One of very few Islamic moderate, liberal democracies with female leadership was classified with primitive tribal societies of Arabia, etc. The unthinking political groups and their financiers gained some ground and cudos or so they imagine.
Actual facts about Bangladesh are rather positive. Compared to India, Bangladesh is in relative peace, despite hartals and unhealthy politics. Sadly hartal and disruption of democratic process is thought to be part of freedom of expression and as such licensed in country claiming to be democratic! Any one criticising hartals will be lectured: "this is a democratic expression...people's will".
Many apparently "Bangladeshi" organisations like Dishtriprit , Nirmul Committee are running very effective campaigns abroad to PROMOTE "taliban Bangladesh" ostensibly in the guise of helping the country and its economy! Please ask your self who sponsors such organisations and why? Who gains from relentless slander and deliberate debasement of Bangladesh?
Please ask yourself which country devotes so much effort globally, to relentlessly lobby, email, write to politicians, policy-makers and think-tanks, business leaders, media organisations, academics to spread disinformation about Bangladesh and yourselves.
ps: Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India all have real internal wars unlike Bangladesh. And yet...... Think how you (we) are being harmed by such false and poisonous propaganda campaign.
Chittagong, Bangladesh, Jan 31 Bangladesh's economy is a picture of stark contrasts and so are the choices it faces. The South Asian nation of 140 million people is one of the poorest on earth, where nearly half the population lives in extreme poverty, surviving on less than a dollar a day. It is also one of the world's most corrupt nations, ranked at the bottom of a global corruption index for five years this decade. It has slipped seven places to 88 in a ranking of ease of doing business in 2006.On the other hand, the predominantly Islamic country is forecast to achieve a record 7% growth this year, pushed by surging garment exports and foreign remittances.Annual per capita GDP growth doubled in 1990-2004 compared to the 1980s and infant mortality and population growth rates have been falling.This, even as the country's bitterly divided politicians focus on what analysts and business leaders say is personal aggrandisement, one-upmanship and economic disruption.Now, which way the country goes depends on how the current political limbo -- caused by elections being put off after weeks of violent protests by opposition parties -- is resolved, analysts and business leaders said."If we can put our house in order soon and achieve political stability, 9% growth should not be a difficult target in the next two or three years," said Kazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmed, an independent economic expert. That would mean impartial polls and the next government turning its attention to fighting corruption, tackling a chronic power shortage and boosting infrastructure to help Bangladesh realise its dream of being another Asian Tiger economy."Otherwise, we could be in for a long period of struggles," Ahmed added. Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan until the 1971 liberation war, embraced liberal economic policies in the 1990s. The country has been governed by the pro-market Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the socialist Awami League in turns since the end of military rule in 1991. But such is their animosity that the leaders of the parties have not spoken to each other in nearly a decade."We are always flying against the wind. Whatever we have achieved is despite the politicians," said M. Fazlul Hoque, president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association, a nearly $4 billion industry. The industry, whose products include T-shirts, innerwear and socks for almost every major global brand, is expected to grow more than 30% in the year to June 2007, Hoque said. Along with woven garments like shirts, denims and trousers, it accounts for nearly 80 % of the country's total exports, which touched a record $10.5 billion in 2005/06.But if Bangladesh was not hit by a series of crippling political blockades and violent strikes that led to the Jan. 22 polls being postponed, growth this year would have been much higher, he said. In Chittagong, the country's commercial capital and main port, containers were piled up for days as political parties blocked transport around the country demanding fair elections."If buyers lose confidence it's a huge problem. It is very difficult to quantify the degree of that loss," Hoque said. "Some buyers didn't feel safe to visit Bangladesh."—Reuters
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