par j.james | Août 17, 2015 | Bangladesh
Bangladesh choosen by ITU for an Award in ICT.
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has once again chosen Bangladesh for an award for the country’s significant progress in information and communication technology.
“The ITU has awarded Bangladesh several times earlier. It has decided to honour Bangladesh again with the ‘Award for ICT’s Sustainable Development’,” Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters on Monday.
He said Bangladesh was selected this year in recognition of its achievement in ensuring use of information and communications technologies for sustainable development.
ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao has sent a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this regard.
State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim handed over the letter to Hasina after the regular Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat on Monday, Bhuiyan said.
He added Zhao in the letter requested the prime minister to receive the award at a function in New York on Sep 26, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
The prime minister’s schedule in this regard is yet to be finalised. Read More … [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 17, 2015 | Bangladesh
Seeds of extrmism should not take root in Bangladesh.
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UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire has opined that the seeds of extremism should not take root in Bangladesh.
In a blog titled “Freedom of speech is a right to be defended” posted on Friday, the UK minister also made a call to commend, and protect the “rich tradition of freedom and religious tolerance” in the country.
He wrote the blog following the brutal killing of Bangladeshi blogger Niladri Chatterjee, also known as Niloy Neel.
Terming the murder as “extremism above all,” he wrote: “It shows both extreme cowardice and extreme ignorance. Cowardice because five men with machetes put a single unarmed man to death. And ignorance because if you have good enough arguments, you really don’t need to resort to murder. Read More … [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 15, 2015 | Bangladesh
Bloggers say they can hardly trust police.
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Several bloggers say they can hardly trust police for security after receiving death threats.
They say they have lost faith in police for delivering on investigations of murdered fellow bloggers.
Four secular bloggers have been murdered in the past six months and police has failed to crack any of these cases.
After the murder of Niladri Chatterjee Niloy this month, bdnews24.com received a letter from ‘Ittehadul Mujahideen’ threatening to kill 19 people, which include bloggers, ministers, teachers, and Ganajagaran Mancha organisers.
Police says they have never heard of a radical Islamist group called ‘Ittehadul Mujahideen’
bdnews24.com has spoken to several of those threatened by the group.
Ganajagaran activist Mahmudul Haque Munshi said a police detective wanted addresses of some bloggers after the threat.
“I communicated with those bloggers and explained the matter to them; but none of them agreed to take help from police,” he said.
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par j.james | Août 13, 2015 | Myanmar
Myanmar health minister curbs military appointments after rare protest.
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Myanmar's health minister on Wednesday scrapped plans to fill more of the 300 vacancies at his ministry with military personnel, after thousands of people joined a rare online protest against eight initial appointments.
The Black Ribbon Movement, launched this week by medical workers and doctors following the appointments, called on the government to end the "militarization" of the ministry.
"We had planned to appoint more people from the Ministry of Defense, but we won't go ahead with the plan since it's against the wishes of most people from the medical field," Health Minister Than Aung told Reuters.
"I know there is a social media campaign about the decision. It's difficult for us to remove the people who have already been appointed, but that won't happen again," said Than Aung. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 13, 2015 | Bangladesh
Joy: We don't want to jeopardise blogger murder probes
The government has not disclosed much information on the developments on the probe of blogger killings as it does not want to jeopardise the investigations, prime minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said.
The prime minister's son made the statement in a status on his official Facebook page posted on Thursday.
"We have made a few arrests and the investigations are ongoing. We have not disclosed too much information because we do not want to jeopardize the investigations," Joy writes.
Terming the people who demand immediate arrests as ignorant fools, Joy said: "Who are we supposed to arrest? We cannot just arrest anyone at random. We have to arrest the killers. Our investigations are leading us to them and we will arrest them as we locate them."
Addressing the people who blame the government for not doing anything over the killings, Joy asked them to inform police if they know the whereabouts of the killers.
"But if you don’t know who and where they are, leave the job up to the professionals."
Dhaka Tribune – jeudi 13 août 2015 07:49
