Author: Mohammad Kawsar Uddin, From Nepal
A Nepali from the remote Myagdi district, Mahabir Pun, has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay 2007 for his outstanding contribution to community leadership. He won Asia’s premier prize for his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to the remote mountain, connecting Nangi village to the global [...]
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Tele-centres are opening up communication-challenged areas in Sri Lanka. Rs. 6 million package initiative to create 20 Internet ‘Nenasalas’ in the island nation, part of plan to create 1,000 centres by 2008.
The problems posed by domestic strife has not distracted Sri Lankans from trying to bridge their own ‘digital divide’ and opening up the more [...]
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Begum Hamida Siddique Collegiate School (BHSCS) is located at village Boria 10 km from Kushtia town. There was no high school within 6 km area of this village and no education for the girls before 1995 the school was established. The school has now been enjoying computer facility from 1998 and a computer course was [...]
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Last few years we are looking for the best info-tech for the benefits of rural people. Indeed still the technology is so expensive for them because we have no well off IT infrastructure and making technological services on vernacular language is also challenging task.
Jamilur Reza Choudhury, former adviser of caretaker government and vice chancellor of [...]
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Fazle Hasan Abed is the founder and chairperson of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). He gave up a thriving accounting career to help Bangladesh’s independence movement. After the birth of the country in 1971, he started BRAC to help refugees and victims of war integrate into society.
He spoke with Nepali Times columnist Ashutosh Tiwari [...]
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“Child marriage” is an acute problem in Bangladesh, being largely symptomatic of the extent of poverty which exists. And the suffering of a child after becoming a house wife in early age is really horrible.
A few months ago, I heard a story from on of my media colleges about Khadija Khatun who is staying in [...]
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More than 142,000 households in Nepal will get long-awaited access to electricity thanks to the implementation of the Nepal Micro Hydro Project for which an emission reductions purchase agreement (ERPA) was signed on Friday, June 29. This is the second greenhouse gas emission reduction project in Nepal, executed by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), [...]
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SLC is the most excepted examination for Nepalese to get release from School life. SLC means School Leaving Certificate examination. As a student, learning about results are the most anxious moments in life. When the result is of SLC examinations, the issue becomes more serious.
How would anyone feel, if s/he have to wait for weeks [...]
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Once famous for its jute carpets, Bangladesh has not only lost the world market to countries like Spain and Turkey but domestic consumers too, thanks to obsolete technology, outdated designs and bad marketing.
Bangladesh continues to grow the finest quality of raw jute, but carpet exports during the first half of 2006-07 were a mere $1.6 [...]
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‘’I thought many times, whether God created me only for sufferings! When my husband cried out from chest pain, it became unbearable for me like a beloved wife. I used to go from door to door to borrow some money to buy medicines for my husband. But my relatives and neighbors were reluctant to lend [...]
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