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Govt to develop exclusive tourist zone |
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:57 |
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TCN Desk: The government has taken initiatives to create an exclusive tourist zone in Cox's Bazar and Bandarban districts and a proposal has been developed accordingly for approval by the authorities concerned.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism Dr Oli Ahmed told reporters today about the plan at Chimbuk Hill Rest House after a visit to the area.
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29 Rohingyas held in Ukhia |
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 15:19 |
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TCN Desk: Ukhia police in separate drives on Thursday and Friday arrested 29 Rohingyas for illegally entering the country through different Bangladesh-Myanmar border points. Police said they arrested the intruders while they were going to the district town by different vehicles.
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Funding anniversary of Cox's Bazar press club celebrated |
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:52 |
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Staff Reporter: 38th funding anniversary of Cox's bazar press club celebrated today with colorful program. Cox's Bazar Press Club has been taken a ten day long programs for members and family members of the club and local Journalists including charity football match, chesses, lodo, carom, poems recitations, pillow transfer, songs and others events with the financial assistance of Green Delta Housing and development Company.
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The terrifying voyage of Burma's boat people |
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:41 |
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Next month thousands of young Burmese Muslims, persecuted in their own land, will attempt to voyage across the sea to a better life – but a sinister fate awaits them. John Carlin investigates
Of the 30,000 people living in the Kutupalong refugee camp, a third are children under 10 Here's a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It'll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton's is today,
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