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Introducing Bangladesh
Travel Alert: The Chittagong Hill Tracts are experiencing high levels of politically motivated violence and kidnappings. Tourists should avoid all non-essential travel in this area. Check Safe Travel for current government warnings.
In late 2007 a rumbling occurred deep in the tropical waters of the Bay of Bengal. Within hours of Cyclone Sidr smashing into southwest Bangladesh, the world’s media and aid organisations were on the move and Bangladesh was about to find herself wrenched back out of obscurity and once again presented to the global community as a classic ‘basket case’ (as Henry Kissinger once described the country) of disaster. The pictures and stories that emerged from Bangladesh at that time portrayed an entire nation on its knees, but this was only a half-truth for within hours of the storm hitting, the majority of the country was back on its feet and operational.
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Latest headlines for Bangladesh
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Danone's yogurt strategy for Bangladesh
8 July 2009 11:05PM
The dairy conglomerate Danone has built a small factory in Bangladesh to make nutritional yogurt for the poor.
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Building a secure future in Bangladesh
7 July 2009 4:47AM
Paul Rose visits Bangladeshi villages, field projects, and schools; and meets the country's leading innovators to report on life at the "front line of sustainable development".
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Bangladeshi banking to help Scots
4 July 2009 11:08PM
A radical form of banking pioneered in Bangladesh could be brought to Scotland to help people out of poverty.
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