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Saturday, 17 April 2010

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3D Technology in 2010

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Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - Technology for Society

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New Hyundai Tucson to launch tomorrow

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SETIA Motors, the main distributor of Hyundai vehicles in the country, will be launching the brand new Tucson tomorrow aiming to carve a big share of the Compact SUV market.
The success of the Tucson model was evident with record sales of more than 2,600 units in Brunei Darussalam since it was launched a few years ago.
The new Tucson is a revamp of the previous model. It has a fluidic sculpture styling that is sleek with sporty looks designed in Hyundai’s European Studio in Frankfurt, Germany and is assembled in Korea.

The stylish chassis is fitted with the Theta II 2.0 litre MPI four cylinder engine that delivers an incredible horsepower of 166ps with a torque in excess of 20.1kgf.m and 179ps with a torque in excess of 23.1kgf.m respectively.
The all new Tucson has a six-speed manual transmission that can shift pattern designed for ease of use. Moreover, the overdrive improves fuel consumption.
As for automatic version, it also has a six-speed automatic transmission that comes with ISG (idle stop and go).
The sleek and distinctive vehicle has an optional electronic 4WD, which automatically routes power to the wheels offering the best traction, reduces wheel spin and is electronic on demand system. It has a 4WD lock switch too that sets torque at a constant 50/50 split between the front and rear wheels and can improve traction in certain low speed conditions just by pressing the switch.
Members of the public who want to catch a glimpse of the all new Tucson, can visit the Setia Motors showroom at JIn Beribi.

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solar power and determination bring the information age to remote refugees

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NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh, January 14 (UNHCR) – Living in a camp where electricity is still a rare commodity, 15-year-old Toslima had never even touched a computer three months ago. Still, she knew that using one could open up a world of knowledge far removed from the closed refugee camp where she has spent her entire life after her parents fled their Myanmar home.

"If you can use a computer, you can learn skills to prosper in life," says Toslima, a refugee from Myanmar's Northern Rakhine state – although with limited freedom of movement and education she once doubted she would ever get a glimpse of the information age that so many people take for granted.

Today even Toslima struggles to grasp the progress she has made in a short time – she's now a co-trainer at a new Community Technology Access (CTA) centre in Nayapara, one of two refugee camps that together are home to 28,000 registered refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.

With 24 glimmering solar panels on its roof, the CTA centre uses renewable energy to power 15 computers. It is an innovative sustainable solution in an extraordinarily challenging environment. Piloted in the remote and rugged conditions of Bangladesh and Rwanda, the CTA project is a new partnership between UNHCR, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers that will bring the benefits of information and communication technology to refugee camps in nine more countries this year.

Here in Nayapara, south of Cox's Bazar on the border with Myanmar, eager young refugees work six days a week on the computers, chatting to one another excitedly and pointing to the screen as they master new skills. Over a 10-week course, 150 students learn the basics of computing, something they never dreamed possible inside a closed camp; Toslima was such a fast learner she was put in charge of helping explain the lessons and monitor students' progress.

"Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel," says Toslima, reeling off the brands of software she has learned to use. "I can use these programs for accounting or to make results sheets," she adds. She navigates through the encyclopedia software and highlights images and information she had not seen before: the moon landing, the number of countries belonging to the United Nations, the roads of London, a map of Italy.

In a culturally conservative society, Toslima is a vital role model for other teenage girls in the camp, who continue to face significant pressure to leave school upon reaching puberty and marry at a very young age. She, along with 30 other girls using the CTA centre, represent a new generation who are showing there is an alternative to early marriage and a life confined to the four walls of their small huts.

"We want peace and we want education for our children," says Toslima's father, one of a growing number of parents in the camp supporting continuing education for their daughters – which only projects like the CTA can make possible.

About half of Nayapara's refugees were born inside the camp and know no other life. For the last 18 years, formal education opportunities in Nayapara camp have been restricted to Class Five. After that, many refugees resort to selling their food rations so their children can attend informal classes taught by other refugees in the camp, but these fall far short of a proper education

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Good news for Mass Effect 2 fans

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Good news for Mass Effect 2 fans, BioWare has plans to release a new armor and a shotgun tomorrow (9 February 2010). The DLC will be available for download via the in-game Cerberus network.

Details of the DLC are:

Cerberus Assault Armor

Cerberus assault armor is designed for shock troops, turn the tide of battle against creatures or forces that would decimate normal soldiers.
Increases heavy weapon ammo capacity by +10%
Increases shields by +10%
Increases health by +10%

M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun

The M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun is a longer-range shotgun with armor-piercing loads. This design also violates several intergalactic weapons treaties, so the M-22a is not distributed to militaries.

The DLC pack seems to be tailor made for a vanguard class. I like to get up close and personal with heavy charge, and these two will completely dominate the enemy.

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Pro-India Hasina sworn in as new Bangladesh Prime Minister.

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haka, Jan 6 (PTI) Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, who has vowed not to allow her country's soil to be used for terrorism against India, was today sworn in for her second spell as Bangladesh's Prime Minister following her party's landslide win in the December 29 polls.

The 61-year-old charismatic leader was administered the oath of office by President Iajuddin Ahmad at the Bangabhaban presidential palace in a ceremony attended by nearly 1,000 distinguished guests.

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Saudi Arabia resumes visa for Bangladeshi workers tomorrow

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Saudi Arabia resumes visa for
Bangladeshi workers tomorrow

Saudi Arabia restarts issuing visas for Bangladeshi workers from
Wednesday, after a short halt, said the Saudi ambassador in Dhaka
Monday. The Saudi embassy in Dhaka stopped issuing visas for
Bangladeshi workers a couple of weeks ago for what ambassador Abdullah
Al-Obaid Al Namla said was for "technical reasons".
Namla said
his government would soon invite foreign affairs adviser Iftekhar Ahmed
Chowdhury to visit Saudi Arabia. "We could not issue visas to
Bangladeshis owing to technical faults. I hope we will start issuing
visas to Bangladeshis from Wednesday," Namla told reporters after his
farewell call on Iftekhar at the foreign ministry.

The ambassador is leaving Dhaka, ending his eight-year
assignment in Bangladesh.

"The pressure of issuing visas is so huge that we will be forced to
give at least 5,000 visas (starting on Wednesday)," Namla said. Neither
the foreign affairs adviser nor the ambassador made comments on the
reported police action against some Bangladeshis in the kingdom. The
Saudi government said its missions in different countries could not
issue visas as some technical faults were detected with the IT system.

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could not manage visas to travel to Saudi Arabia in time.

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Furniture fair begins tomorrow

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Furniture fair begins tomorrow

KM Aktaruzzaman (2-L), chairman of Bangladesh Furniture Industry Owners Association, attends a press conference to announce the eighth national furniture fair, at National Press Club in Dhaka yesterday. The six-day fair begins tomorrow at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital. BFIOA
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A furniture fair begins in Dhaka tomorrow, eyeing consolidation of the local manufacturers’ position.

A total of 70 furniture makers, including the leading ones, will showcase their latest and best produces at the six-day Eighth National Furniture Fair 2010 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.

“Though foreign furniture manufacturers are working vigorously to capture the local market, the locals still dominate the market despite various difficulties. We want to display our achievements in the fair,” KM Akhtaruzzaman, president of Bangladesh Furniture Industry Owners Association, told a press conference yesterday.

“Our achievement is not only creation of employment opportunity, but also saving foreign currencies,” said Akhtaruzzaman, also managing director of Akhtar Furniture.

Commerce Minister Faruk Khan is expected to inaugurate the fair in the afternoon. The fair will remain open from 9am to 9pm every day without any entry fee.

During the press conference, the organisers pointed to the fact that the sector had prospered over the years with little policy support and difficulties.

A pragmatic tariff policy is strongly needed so that raw materials for furnishers could be imported at lower prices to compete with the imported finished furniture, they said.

Akhtaruzzaman said the local furniture companies have ample scope to flourish, but for that the government should take some measures, which include cut in duties on imports of raw materials.

He also pointed his finger at the furniture makers trade body’s recent tie-up with Export Promotion Bureau and Katalyst to make furniture of global standard and widen the country’s export basket.

Though a number of local furniture makers have turned out to be promising in the last few years, the country’s earning from furniture exports is not that significant.

EPB data shows that Bangladesh fetched $3 million from exports of wood and furniture in FY 2008-09, $2.4 million in 2007-08, $1.8 million in 2006-07 and $2.2 million in 2005-06.

Mohammed Ullah, managing director of La-Sany Furniture, and Elias Sarkar, managing director of Brothers Furniture, also spoke at the press meet.

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A new danger for sex workers in Bangladesh

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The prostitutes in Bangladeshi brothels are often underage and unpaid – and now, many of them are hooked on steroids that are damaging to their health
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Joanna Moorhead
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I'm walking along a brightly painted corridor when a couple of young girls catch first my eye, and then my arm. They smile at me, and giggle; they look about the same ages as my elder daughters, 17 and 15. Just like my daughters, these girls have taken a lot of time over their makeup and their clothes: and they look beautiful. In their faces I see the same fun and youthful optimism that I see every day in my own house.

But there the comparisons end. Because I am in Faridpur in central Bangladesh, on the banks of the Padma river; and these girls are sex workers.

Each day they must have intercourse with four or five different men, for the price of around 100 taka, or £1, a time. And for most of the girls here, there is no monetary gain whatsoever: because most of the inmates (and it is, in many ways, like a prison) at Faridpur brothel are chhukri, or bonded sex workers, sold by their families to a madam in return for two or three years in which she, the brothel-owner, can pocket all their earnings.

It is a terrible, filthy, overcrowded place, this Faridpur brothel. To reach it you walk through a series of dusty, narrow alleys, uneven underfoot; past endless booths selling dusty bottles of soft drinks and past-their-sell-by-date packets of crisps; past skinny goats and even skinnier, rag-clad people. There is a ripple of excitement as you pass, because westerners are unusual in Faridpur.

And then, ducking under a couple of greying rags that serve as makeshift curtains, you turn into a new alley; and then to a doorway with several men hanging around, and two or three cigarette-sellers at the entrance (they sell cigarettes singly here; the men like a post-coital smoke).

The brothel is huge: 800 girls live in the fortress-like building, with its dark and narrow, but gaudily painted, corridors. There are many doors, and behind each one is a tiny room with a barred window, and just enough space for a rag-strewn double bed where the girls take their customers. The girls sleep two to a room; when one arrives with a client, the other simply makes herself scarce. Many of the customers are migrant workers, who are employed in the numerous brick-making factories in the area; other clients are truck drivers, since Faridpur is on an important trading route, and the ferries bringing lorries from Dhaka dock nearby. What is strange is that using prostitutes seems to be tolerated in this Muslim country: when I ask our Bangladeshi interpreter about this, he points out that the brothels were established under British rule, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The sound, the sight and even the smell of sex is everywhere in the brothel. A young couple duck into a room, closing the door tightly behind them; an older man emerges from another door further along the corridor, his face beaded with sweat. In the corners there are mounds of used condoms.

And it is on one of these corridors that I meet the girls who remind me so much of my own girls. I try to start a conversation, but we don't speak the same language. And then I see another, even more shocking, sight: a third girl who appears no older than my third daughter – who's not even 12. The photographer arrives, and he speaks Bangla. "Ask her how old she is," I say. The photographer, hearing her answer, shakes his head. "She says 22." And then we all laugh, because it seems the only thing to do. I look again at the girl, and I notice her budding breasts and her impish smile, both so like my daughter's.

That girls this young are condemned to a life of sexual slavery anywhere in 2010 is bad enough; that it has to be in an overcrowded hellhole such as this, with a stench so bad it is hard not to gag, is unbelievable. These days there is also a new horror, one that could snuff out the chance of a future for these girls. The horror is a drug called Oradexon; a drug identical to one used to fatten cattle. A drug that is now being used routinely in brothels throughout Bangladesh, by madams desperate to make the girls in their employ seem older and more attractive to clients. It has the added bonus of making them less likely to attract the attention of the police – sex workers here must be 18 or over, though the Faridpur brothel is clearly full of girls who are not.

No one is quite sure how long Oradexon has been a feature of life in the brothels, but it has been a while; long enough for the sardarni, or brothel caretakers, to have found out that there can be long-term health implications, and to have chosen to ignore them.

According to the charity ActionAid, which has just published a report into the use of Oradexon among Bangladeshi sex workers, the drug is most commonly taken by girls and women aged between 15 and 35. "It's cheap and it's easily available," says Luftun Nahar, who works in the organisation's Dhaka office, and helped compile the report.

Nahar was one of the first people to realise that the drug was being widely used. "I remember thinking, there are all these bulky girls here – how did they get like that?" she says. "And then I asked around and someone told me they were all taking a drug called Oradexon, which is the same preparation used for cows on farms, to make them fatter."

The drug, says Nahar, is a godsend to the madams and brothel-owners. It means the pimps are able to get girls who are as young as 12 or 13 – many of them have been trafficked, and have nowhere else to go – and make them look much older.

"The pimps supply the drug, which is very cheaply available. And then they are even more powerful in the girls' lives, because the girls are hostages – they need to go on taking the drug, because if they come off it they get all these side-effects: bad headaches, stomach pains, no appetite, skin rashes. With those effects, of course, they can't work – and they can't stop working or they'll have no food, and nowhere to live."

ActionAid's campaign against the drug is directed at users, because stopping the supply chain would simply be too difficult. The campaign to educate the girls about the importance of condoms to stop HIV infection is held up as a model that worked, on the whole. But no one thinks this will be an easy battle, because for the madams there are clear advantages in having workers on Oradexon – dissuading them from getting their girls to use the drug will be tough.

Dr Bashirul Islam, head of healthcare services in Faridpur, is working with ActionAid. He says Oradexon can be extremely dangerous for healthy young women. "It's a life-saving drug for very serious problems [the drug is also a steroid hormone, used to treat inflammatory disorders]. Taken by these girls, it impairs the kidneys, increases the blood pressure and interferes with normal hormone production. It also causes widespread oedema, or swelling, throughout the body. There are also severe problems with coming off the drug, because it's highly addictive. So if the girls stop taking it, they need a lot of help – they get bad stomach aches, they are sick, they get headaches."

As to where it comes from, Oradexon is easily available from the quacks, or unqualified pharmacists who operate widely throughout Bangladesh, says Islam. "There should be better regulation to stop them selling the drug, but there is not," he says.