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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

India's challenge is to maintain strategic autonomy and to promote its vision of a more inclusive, rules-based and connected South and Southeast Asia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/05/world/indias-dangerous-neighborhood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #india #nepal #thailand #indopacific #southeastasia #malaysia #cambodia #defense #china #pakistan #bangladesh #democracy

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India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighborhood

All these stories point to a larger worrying trend: Democracy in India’s neighborhood is in retreat.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

The world's second biggest exporter of clothes, Bangladesh is looking to technology to gain control of the fashion industry's other major product: textile waste. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/asia-pacific/bangladesh-textiles-tech-waste/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #bangladesh #textiles #waste #tech #recycling

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Bangladesh's textile firms turn to technology to sort waste crisis

Cloud-hosted software allows manufacturers to monitor waste on a digital platform and track it as it passes between factories, handlers and recyclers.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

While Europeans and Americans are showing their frustration by choosing more extreme politics, there has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/world/gen-z-anger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #morocco #bangladesh #nepal

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Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

There has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption.
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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

💰 Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight | FT Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usUFFxklzas

#bangladesh #corruption #uk

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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

💰 Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight | FT Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usUFFxklzas

#bangladesh #corruption #uk

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Young people across Asia are furious. But burned buildings and trashed department stores can't be the endgame. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/11/world/gen-z-protesters-challenge-asias-old-guard/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #genz #nepal #indonesia #srilanka #bangladesh #asia

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

With extremists gaining power, human rights abuses surging, and regional stability at risk, Bangladesh is veering toward a Pakistan-style crisis that the international community can no longer afford to ignore. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/03/world/bangladesh-is-a-waiting-time-bomb/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #bangladesh #india #pakistan #muhammadyunus #sheikhhasina #religion #islam

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Mitex Leo
@ml@mitexleo.one  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

For Dhaka’s new elites—including many who seized prime Bihari properties in the city’s most desirable neighborhoods—the 1974 famine was little more than a distraction. People were dying on the streets, in open fields, and at train terminals, but it rarely stirred their humanity. Poor relatives knocked on their doors, pleading for a small tin of baby food or a cheap pair of trousers from state-run, subsidized Cosco stores. Millions were forced to queue in front of gruel kitchens and ration shops. Yet these indignities barely touched the lives of the privileged.

Bangladesh had never witnessed a humanitarian disaster on the scale of 1974. It was, without doubt, the darkest year in our history—our true annus horribilis. Still, for the elites, life went on as usual. When the nation marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famine, there were almost no books, essays, or articles in the major newspapers to commemorate the tragedy. The silence was deliberate. Media houses feared revisiting the greatest failure of Mujib during Hasina’s authoritarian rule. Instead, they worshipped Mujib with the same fervor the Red Guards once worshipped Mao during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

In 2023, one of Mujib’s most ardent devotees published an essay on “Mujibonomics” in Whiteboard, a magazine run by Mujib’s grandson. But Mujib never had a coherent economic strategy. Writing about “Mujibonomics” was nothing more than shameless bootlicking of an inept leadership. The few scholars who addressed the famine with honesty were those whose humanity was scarred by that man-made catastrophe—figures like Mohiuddin Alamgir (not to be confused with the notorious Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir). Much of what we know about the disaster exists thanks to his scholarship.

The rest of Dhaka’s elites quietly erased the episode from memory—and, years later, just as quietly embraced and legitimized Hasina’s dictatorship.

- Shafiqul Alam
Press Secretary, CA

#Bangladesh#Dhaka#Elites#SheikhMujib#Economics#Famine#Food

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Mitex Leo
@ml@mitexleo.one  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

For Dhaka’s new elites—including many who seized prime Bihari properties in the city’s most desirable neighborhoods—the 1974 famine was little more than a distraction. People were dying on the streets, in open fields, and at train terminals, but it rarely stirred their humanity. Poor relatives knocked on their doors, pleading for a small tin of baby food or a cheap pair of trousers from state-run, subsidized Cosco stores. Millions were forced to queue in front of gruel kitchens and ration shops. Yet these indignities barely touched the lives of the privileged.

Bangladesh had never witnessed a humanitarian disaster on the scale of 1974. It was, without doubt, the darkest year in our history—our true annus horribilis. Still, for the elites, life went on as usual. When the nation marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famine, there were almost no books, essays, or articles in the major newspapers to commemorate the tragedy. The silence was deliberate. Media houses feared revisiting the greatest failure of Mujib during Hasina’s authoritarian rule. Instead, they worshipped Mujib with the same fervor the Red Guards once worshipped Mao during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

In 2023, one of Mujib’s most ardent devotees published an essay on “Mujibonomics” in Whiteboard, a magazine run by Mujib’s grandson. But Mujib never had a coherent economic strategy. Writing about “Mujibonomics” was nothing more than shameless bootlicking of an inept leadership. The few scholars who addressed the famine with honesty were those whose humanity was scarred by that man-made catastrophe—figures like Mohiuddin Alamgir (not to be confused with the notorious Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir). Much of what we know about the disaster exists thanks to his scholarship.

The rest of Dhaka’s elites quietly erased the episode from memory—and, years later, just as quietly embraced and legitimized Hasina’s dictatorship.

- Shafiqul Alam
Press Secretary, CA

#Bangladesh#Dhaka#Elites#SheikhMujib#Economics#Famine#Food

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Fans of Starto Entertainment were targeted by a social media scam operating out of Bangladesh that aimed to steal their credit card information. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/society/bangladesh-starto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #bangladesh #startoentertainment #socialmedia

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

The former official residence of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, whose rule saw widespread human rights abuses, is being turned into a museum as a lasting reminder of her autocratic rule. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/asia-pacific/politics/bangladesh-pm-revolution-museum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #bangladesh #sheikhhasina

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Anarchism News
@anarchismhub@todon.nl  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Global May Day: Tea workers in Bangladesh rally and get organized!

https://globalmayday.net/2025/07/22/twtuc-conference/

The Tea Workers’ Trade Union Center (TWTUC) commemorated its 1st National Conference at the Moulvibazar District Council Auditorium in Sreemangal on June 29th, 2025 with hundreds of workers coming together. […]

#News#TWTUCTeaWorkersBangladesh#Bangladesh#Teaworkers#TWTUC

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170 in the country's deadliest aviation accident in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/asia-pacific/bangladesh-jet-crash-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #bangladesh #airaccidents

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

China's Premier Li Qiang announced the start of construction on what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, located on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau and estimated to cost around $170 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/21/asia-pacific/china-hydropower-dam-tibet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #tibet #china #india #bangladesh

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

One year since protests ousted Bangladesh's PM, a geopolitical realignment risks intensifying polarization — and fears of external interference — ahead of elections next year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/asia-pacific/politics/revolution-bangladesh-china-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #bangladesh #china #india #southasia #sheikhhasina #muhammadyunus

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