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Editorial
 
Editorial
Right to information
Deny it, deny good governance
International Right to Information Day passed off yesterday. It is a day of great significance and relevance to Bangladesh, especially in the prevailing status of various basic rights.
 
Editorial
KEPZ receives the nod
A welcome development
After five years in hibernation, the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) is warming up with the government having taken a decision to provide it with the licence to operate.

Post Editorial
 
Straight Talk
More democracy, not less
Zafar Sobhan
I'll let you into a little secret that I have learned traveling the world. Wherever you go, people are all the same. They all want more or less the same thing.
 
Cross Talk
They drowned, we sank
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
When a cow rolls its tail in its own dung, we call it a mess. When someone wallows in the mud of his own mistake we call it shame. But politics is the name of the game with a different twist.
 
Closeup Japan
Abe takes the helm
Monzurul Huq writes from Tokyo
The Japanese Diet in an extraordinary session has voted Shinzo Abe, the newly elected leader of the country's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to the post of prime minister to succeed Junichiro
 

 
   
 
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