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Ferryman on Buriganga River
Colin Window swaps life as a bridge officer on the Woolwich Ferry in London and travels to Dhaka, Bangladesh to train and work as a ferryman. He learns how to use a sampan (a small wooden rowboat) to transport goods and passengers across the Buriganga...

(Al Jazeera) -- Bangladesh's power plants do not generate enough energy to meet demand, leaving 70 per cent of villagers without electricity.
The government has encouraged local companies to invest in solar energy.
(CDKN Asia) -- Bangladesh is a massively power-deficient country with peak power shortages of around 25%. More than 60% of its people do not have access to the power grid. The country only produces 3500-4200 MW of electricity against a daily demand for...

Big News Network (UPI)Thursday 23rd August, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan has more than doubled since President Obama took office, The New York Times reports.
One thousand members of the U.S. Army and Marines were killed in the nine years after the 2001 invasion, the newspaper said. The toll hit 2,000 last week when Specialist James A. Justice died of wounds in an Army hospital in Germany....

It is up to India to try to stop Sheikh Hasina ruining Bangladesh
May 26th 2012 | The Economist
THE Punch-and-Judy show of Bangladeshi politics, in which the ruling party—run by the daughter of a former president—bashes the opposition—run by the widow of a former president—before swapping places with it, has been running for decades. The outside...