Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts

May 06, 2013

BusinessWeek tells Why The World Shouldn't Stop Buying From Bangladesh

Charles kenny, an author of businessweek.com, recently writes an article giving his reason for buying clothes and other low cost manufacturing goods from Bangladesh. The question arises recently due to building collapse in Savar, Dhaka which takes away nearly 500 lives. A big buidling called Rana Plaza, which homes 5 garments and a lot of shops, collapsed recently with nearly 4000 man inside it. Afterwards crticism towards the original buyers see a steep increase. In response to these incident and criticism, some western buyers declare not to buy gods from Bangladesh. 
Kenny gives some reason to buy from Bangladesh, here is the article quoted as is.

March 19, 2013

Bangladesh tops the natural climate danger ranking list

In a recent news published in nature disaster blog, scientists publishes a danger map. In this danger map they showed the natural climate related danger exposed to different countries. Red depicts extreme risk and green depicts low risk associated with a country. Here is the map taken from the article
Bangladesh tops the climate danger list
You can see Dhaka, Bangladesh tops the list, which means Bangladesh is the most vulnerable place to live due to threat of sudden natural calamities. Beside, Bangladesh has a bad law and order situation with very corrupted police force and health professional.

However, I noticed something on the map. The low end of the map is particularly risky in comparison to the upper part of the world. Most of the time this low part of the map is also the lowest income area of the world. Do you think the high income end of the world is saving their back in this case by doing something fishy, both in long term or short term? 

February 26, 2012

Mathiner kup:Teknaf, Bangladesh

Stone of Mathine's Kup heritage site
Among the many legendary love stories in Bangladesh, the tale of Mathin, a tribal princess, is very famous. It is a part of history of the coastal city Teknaf, the last town in the southern most part of Bangladesh.
Teknaf is a nearby city of Mayanmer (the arakan). It is an old city, originated back in the middle of early twenteeth century. It was habitated by the tribal community called rakhaine. The tale of Mathine involves this community and one of the police force member of ruling english people at that time.

March 30, 2009

Let's go to Saint Martin(Bangladesh) - (information post)


(To those people who do not know what Saint Martin is--it is the only coral island of Bangladesh and is amazingly beautiful.)

And to those people who know what is it, interested to go there but do not know much about it- I am writing this post for you just to provide some information about the place.

(Disclaimer: all the data are taken from internet, mostly from a site named www.somewhereinblog.net )



You can go Saint Martin Island by bus service and then but trawler or ship. The bus will take you to TEKNAF and then you need to take sea-truck or trawler. Among the non-AC bus, you can travel by MODERN LINE or S.ALAM bus service. It will cost almost 560 Taka (Bangladeshi currency). AC bus service is also available. It is “Saint Martin