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Fakhruddin, Maung Aye talk road to China via Myanmar

Maritime boundary, direct road link gas import boosting of bilateral trade, enhancing cooperation between the armies of the two countries dominated the talks between Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed and the visiting Myanmar delegation led by Vice-Chairman of the ruling State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar Vice-senior General Maung Aye, at the Chief Adviser’s office yesterday.

“In the talks the chief adviser has proposed to extend the proposed road-link up to China,” foreign adviser Dr Iftekhar told a press briefing after the talks.

“We have also proposed to have a tripartite meeting involving China and our two countries. Myanmar side said that they would let us know about their decision after exploring the feasibility as, according to them, there are issues of resource mobilisation,” he added.

Asked about tentative date for the construction of the 23-km road connecting Bangladesh and  Read more...

Bangladesh-Myanmar link road survey to begin soon

Dhaka is set to begin a survey on the proposed Bangladesh-Myanmar link road this month with the consent of Yangon.

The communications ministry has already requested the foreign affairs ministry to seek opinions of the Myanmar authorities in this regard, said a senior official concerned.

Dhaka may take up the issue of the proposed direct road link between the two neighbours for discussion with the vice-senior general Maung Aye, the vice-chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar, who is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka this morning on a three-day official visit.

“The survey on the proposed Bangladesh-Myanmar link road will begin soon” The construction work may begin in the middle of  Read more...

Vietnam under high risk of Climate change

World Bank officials said Tuesday the agency’s new Global Monitoring Report underlines the risks that environmental damage and climate change pose to the gains made by developing countries in recent years, even development success stories such as Vietnam. 

The report, issued Monday and entitled “Millennium Development Goals and the Environment,” singles out Vietnam as both one of the models for successful development by Third World countries and one  Read more...

Climate link with killer cyclones spurs fierce scientific debate

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.

Are these events — massively costly in lives and treasure — all linked? Could they be part of an alarming trend of weird, more powerful storms stoked by global warming? That’s a question that  Read more...