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October 9th, 2009 LONDON - Lap-dancing club owners in Britain are fuming at the new licence laws proposed in the parliament which intend to reclassify the shops as "sex encounter establishments." If the proposed law gets through, the industry may lose up to 15,000 jobs, as owners may need to pay up to 30,000 pounds for the new licence. Lap Dancing Association, which represents around a third of the UK's 300 lap-dance establishments, insists it is unfair to put lap-dancers in same category as sex workers.

July 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - The use of Bangladesh territory by Indian insurgent groups, the contentious Tipaimukh dam, railway projects as well as other issues were on the anvil when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina here Wednesday. The two prime ministers met for the first time since their respective electoral victories and congratulations were also in order.

July 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's exporters have made common ca use with Indian importers to urge Dhaka to reduce taxes on the prized hilsa fish and place it on par with frozen shrimp and other marine products it exports to other countries. Slackening export of Bangladeshi hilsa to India would make way for cheaper hilsa from Myanmar, besides affecting the lives of over 600,000 fisherfolk and traders on both sides, they said at a joint media conference.

June 6th, 2009 DHAKA - Eleven Bangladeshi fishermen have allegedly been hurt in firing by Nasaka, the border security force of Myanmar, in a trans-border clash in the Bay of Bengal's upper reaches, media reports said here Saturday. Dhaka claims that its fishermen were forcibly prevented by Nasaka personnel from fishing in the estuary region around St.

May 28th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Dancers at a Malaysian club are resorting to stripping to attract more and more customers. According to China Press, the club in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, recently employed a group of young and good-looking dancers from the Philippines and Thailand to perform on stage.

May 7th, 2009 DHAKA - A Dhaka court Wednesday sent two former Bangladeshi ministers, convicted in absentia in graft charges, to long prison terms as they surrendered before the trial court, officials said. Special court Judge Arifur Rahman ordered former communications minister Anwar Hossain Manju and former state minister for law Shahjahan Omar to jail on their surrender.

May 6th, 2009 UAE compensates Bangladeshi child camel jockeysDHAKA, Bangladesh — Hundreds of Bangladeshi children taken from their homes and forced to become racing camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates will be compensated by the Persian Gulf nation, the Bangladeshi government said Wednesday. Home Minister Sahara Khatun said the UAE has given the government nearly $1.44 million to distribute among 879 Bangladeshi children, who worked as camel jockeys after it was banned in 1993.

May 6th, 2009 UAE compensates Bangladeshi child camel racersDHAKA, Bangladesh — Hundreds of Bangladeshi children taken from their homes and forced to race camels in the United Arab Emirates will be compensated by the Persian Gulf nation, the Bangladeshi government said Wednesday. Home Minister Sahara Khatun said the UAE has given the government nearly $1.44 million to distribute among 879 Bangladeshi children who worked as jockeys at camel races after it was banned in 1993.

May 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - New Delhi Sunday handed to Dhaka a list of suspected Indian terrorists believed to be hiding in Bangladesh, the Indian high commissioner here said. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Bangladeshi State Minister for Home Affairs Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj, India's Pinak Ranjan Chakravarti said: 'We have also requested the authorities to step up vigil over them especially during the ongoing polls yet to be completed in the eastern states of India.' The envoy added that a number of issues, including extradition of prisoners, came up for discussion.

April 24th, 2009 DHAKA/RIYADH - Nearly two million Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia can now change their jobs under a new law passed on the eve of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit. It will help Dhaka consolidate one of its most lucrative manpower export markets at a time when expatriates from some other West Asian countries and from Malaysia are returning home jobless.

March 28th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni Saturday urged Malaysian authorities to reconsider the cancellation of visas for more than 55,000 Bangladeshi workers, officials said. Moni met Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin bin Mohd in Kuala Lumpur as part of Bangladesh's diplomatic efforts to protect its overseas labour markets, said a release issued by its embassy in Malaysia.

March 14th, 2009 DHAKA/KUALA LUMPUR - At least 300 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Malaysia after their visas were cancelled citing unemployment caused by global recession, media reports said Friday. Malaysia had cancelled visas of nearly 55,000 Bangladeshi workers Wednesday.

February 15th, 2009 DHAKA - Indian singer Manna Dey says the Dhaka audience is better than that in Kolkata, which makes him come to the Bangladesh capital more often. 'As the Bangladeshi listeners are better than the Kolkata audience, I come here off and on,' he said on the eve of his performance here.

February 10th, 2009 DHAKA - A host of well-known films from Bangladesh will be screened at the Film and Television Insitute of India (FTII) in Pune Feb 21-22 to mark the anniversary of Ekushey February (Feb 21), the day on which the movement for Bangladesh's cultural renaissance started. Top Bangladeshi filmmakers Tanvir Mokammel, Abu Sayeed, Tareque and Catherine Masud will participate in the two-day screenings and meetings, The Daily Star said Wednesday.

January 5th, 2009 DHAKA - Despite the global financial meltdown, remittances by Bangladeshis abroad, one of the country's economic mainstays, crossed the $9 billion mark last year. It was a 40.76 percent year-on-year growth.