Bangladesh population pegged at 150.5M, compromising contradiction
World’s poorest nation Bangladesh present population has been counted by a United Nations agency at 15.5 million on Wednesday, five-days ahead of when the world population is expected to reach 7 billion. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimated country’s population, which is a contradiction to Bangladesh census announced in March 2011 the population of [...]
Bangladesh keen to send thousands of workers back to Libya
Bangladesh is keen to send thousands of workers to Libya who fled the beleaguered country in April. Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, the government minister for expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment, on Sunday said officials plan to resend tens of thousands of construction workers and other employees back to Libya. The Bangladesh embassy in the Libyan capital [...]
Wealthy philanthropists and global poverty
In August 2010, the press announced that the world’s richest people (a few dozen billionaires) tentatively agreed to give away to the charities of their choice half of their wealth, which amounts to $3.5 trillion, or just over one-quarter of the EU’s GDP. At that time, the world was unaware that Egypt’s Mubarak was one [...]
Libya’s Sharia law announcement ignored by Obama and Clinton
While President Barack Obama continues to exude the glow of victory during recent press conferences, he and his minions are ignoring or downplaying Libya’s probable embrace of a radical Islamic justice system. President Obama on Sunday hailed the declaration of liberation in Libya as the ” beginning of a new era of promise,” urging the [...]
A ‘Fall of Discontent’ for U.S.-China Trade Relations
Global economic developments this year, along with the impact of safe-haven investment flows have led to the appreciation of the dollar in global markets, contributed to the high level of unemployment in the U.S. and increased the chances for a double-dip recession in America. All these developments have further highlighted the international tensions over exchange [...]
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