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Thursday, September 18, 2008

[ Nokia Club Bangladesh ] Cartoon Images by Famous Cartoonist

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[chottala.com] USA AND UK ARE GONE CASE

Dear NRB in USA & UK,

Close all your businesses and properties from USA & UK and go back to
BD to invest there. You know, economies of USA & UK are GONE CASE and
every asset of foreigners should be closed fast from those countries
before it's too late.

Thank you.


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[chottala.com] Fw: New Drug in Schools---MUST READ

> Subject: New Drug in Schools---MUST READ
>
> Dear All:
>
> This was sent to me.....pass it on. The actual story is on
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anis Ahmed
>
> North Potomac, Maryland
>
> New drug in Schools...
>
> Please pass this on even if you do not have kids in school. Parents should
> know about this killer drug. Parents and grandparents, please send it to
> your families and friends.
>
> This is a new drug known as 'strawberry quick '. There is a very scary
> thing
> going on in the schools right now that we All need to be aware of.
>
> There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry
> pop
> rocks (the candy that sizzles and 'pops' in your mouth). It also smells
> like
> strawberry and it is being handed out to kids in school yards. They are
> calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.
>
> Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to
> the hospital in dire condition. It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter,
> cola, cherry, grape and orange.
>
> Please instruct your children not to accept candy from strangers and even
> not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been
> given it and believed it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a
> teacher, principal, etc. immediately.
>
> Pass this email on to as many people as you can (even if they don't have
> kids) so that we can raise awareness and hopefully prevent any tragedies
> from occurring.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
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[chottala.com] The DV-2010 Lottery begins at Noon EDT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon EST on December 1, 2008.


U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery

The DV-2010 Lottery begins at Noon EDT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon EST on December 1, 2008.

Information and instructions for the DV-2010 lottery will appear on the Travel.State.Gov website as soon as available. Please check this webpage at a later time.

DV Program


The Congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

Please Note: There have been instances of fraudulent websites posing as official U.S. Government sites. Some companies posing as the U.S. Government have sought money in order to "complete" lottery entry forms. There is no charge to download and complete the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. The Department of State notifies successful Diversity Visa applicants by letter, and NOT by email. To learn more see the Department of State Warning and the Federal Trade Commission Warning.

DV-2009 lottery winners were notified by mail between May and July 2008 and will be provided further instructions, including information on fees connected with immigration to the U.S. Those selected in the random drawing are NOT notified by email. Those individuals NOT selected will NOT receive any notification. Review the Diversity Visa Lottery Instructions "Selection of Applicants" section for more information about the DV timeframe and process.

As you apply to come to the U.S., please take a moment to visit our Rewards For Justice program website to see how you can help in the continuing efforts for "secure borders" and "open doors."

Click on the links for information on the Diversity Visa Program.

Diversity Visa Lottery Instructions
DV 2008 Results
DV 2009 Results
List of Occupations
KCC Information

Diversity Visa Lottery 2009 (DV-2009) Results -

   Asia & Europe    

 

 

 

ASIA

AFGHANISTAN

117

MALAYSIA

85

BAHRAIN

18

MALDIVES

4

BANGLADESH

6,023

MONGOLIA

191

BHUTAN

4

NEPAL 

1,891

BRUNEI

0

NORTH KOREA

2

BURMA

556

OMAN 

10

CAMBODIA

287

QATAR

10

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION

75

SAUDI ARABIA

128

INDONESIA

230

SINGAPORE

38

IRAN

1,689

SRI LANKA

792

IRAQ

154

SYRIA

108

ISRAEL

194

TAIWAN

431

JAPAN

320

THAILAND

110

JORDAN

161

TIMOR-LESTE

1

KUWAIT

43

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

33

LAOS

2

YEMEN

102

LEBANON

193

 

 

 

 

 

 

EUROPE

ALBANIA

2,894

LIECHTENSTEIN

1

ANDORRA 

0

LITHUANIA

273

ARMENIA

1,285

LUXEMBOURG

1

AUSTRIA

145

MACAU

12

AZERBAIJAN

345

MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF

322

BELARUS

1,240

MALTA

9

BELGIUM

82

MARTINIQUE

4

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

158

MOLDOVA

542

BULGARIA

1,154

MONACO

0

CROATIA

75

MONTENEGRO

20

CYPRUS

42

NETHERLANDS

226

CZECH REPUBLIC

140

NETHERLANDS ARUBA

9

DENMARK 

48

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

34

ESTONIA

58

NORTHERN IRELAND

35

FINLAND

72

NORWAY

54

FRANCE

738

PORTUGAL

92

FRENCH GUIANA 

11

REUNION

0

FRENCH POLYNESIA 

2

ROMANIA

757

FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS

1

SAN MARINO

0

GEORGIA

661

SERBIA

656

GERMANY

1,973

SLOVAKIA

169

GREECE

63

SLOVENIA

21

GREENLAND

1

SPAIN

172

GUADELOUPE

0

SWEDEN

226

HUNGARY

271

SWITZERLAND

230

ICELAND

25

TAJIKISTAN

168

IRELAND

132

TURKEY

2,331

ITALY

433

TURKMENISTAN

111

 KAZAKHSTAN

336

UKRAINE

5,502

KYRGYZSTAN

169

UZBEKISTAN

3,284

LATVIA

100

VATICAN CITY

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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[chottala.com] UN job for bangladeshi( 2009 National Examination Programme for nationals of Bangladesh)


We offer P2 examinations in 8 disciplines for your country. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants:

1. should not be more than 32 years old on 31 December 2009 (born on 1 January 1977 or after);

2. should hold at least a first-level university degree in one of the disciplines listed below:

3. should speak and write fluently in either English or French.

4. In an instance where a large number of applications are received, we receive the right to admit only the most qualified candidates. (See Eligibility for P2 examination.)
 
আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন
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[chottala.com] The begums are back - Back to square one as the army admits defeat (The Economist)

Politics in Bangladesh

The begums are back

Sep 18th 2008 | DHAKA
From The Economist print edition

Back to square one as the army admits defeat


AFP Zia, free at last, and back in the battle

IT IS a spectacular military retreat. "You can smell the burning tyres," says one Dhaka-based diplomat. Since the army seized power in January 2007 and installed a technocratic interim government, it has tried and failed to end an era of dominance by Bangladesh's two squabbling former prime minsters, Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Sheikh Hasina Wajed of the Awami League.

Yet, after a year in jail on charges of corruption, Bangladesh's battling begums are back. On September 11th the government freed Mrs Zia on bail. Five days later, it cleared legal hurdles for the return of Sheikh Hasina from America, where she went for medical treatment following her release on parole in June. She is expected back in Bangladesh early next month.

Both leaders still face charges. But prosecutors are unlikely to take action against them without the approval of the government, which is no longer trying to bring their political careers to an end. So, barring an extraordinary upset, one of them will be Bangladesh's next prime minister.

It is an astonishing volte-face. The begums alternated in power from 1991-2007 and are blamed for the fiercely antagonistic, corrupt politics that led the army to step in. First it tried to exile them and create a "third force" in Bangladeshi politics; then it jailed them and tried to split their parties, hoping that new leaders might emerge. But the begums' parties are held together by two things: patronage and personality cult. They are unviable without their leaders: hence the BNP's offer to Mrs Zia this week to lead the party "for life". She declined.

The good news is that Bangladeshis, for the first time since 2001, will get the chance to elect a government. For once it will be almost impossible to rig the poll. The election commission has purged 12m duplicate, deceased or otherwise bogus names from voter rolls. On September 22nd it will unveil a firm date for the election, long promised for December. And the government is soon to announce steps to lift the 20-month old state of emergency.

It is troubling, however, that Bangladesh's transition to multiparty democracy has in effect been entrusted to the two politicians who made it unworkable in the first place. They have refused to talk to each other for decades, though the government says it is working on getting them to "sit across the table".

The price the government had to pay to prevent the parties boycotting the polls is the return of total impunity to Bangladesh. For five years from 2001, Bangladesh led international corruption rankings. But this month the government freed Mrs Zia's son, Tarique Rahman, the main trophy of its anti-corruption drive. The begums' coteries have been released on bail. It seems likely that the convictions of those jailed for corruption will be overturned.

Some in Dhaka worry that all of this might be too much for the generals to stomach. The army still has to secure its own safe passage into the multiparty era, but has little clout over the resurgent political parties. The two years Western governments quietly granted it to fix the country's messy politics are drawing to a close. Neither foreign governments nor Bangladeshis want to see its rule extended.

But there are hints that the generals might not leave politics altogether. A banned Islamist militant group, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, which the army previously claimed to have crushed, is reported to have threatened members of the emergency government. This week the home ministry gave warning of worsening law and order. The general's retreat seems inevitable, but such scares suggest it might not be total.


 
 
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[chottala.com] I have Never Heard of the Name "Rohingya"

I have Never Heard of the Name "Rohingya"
Abid Bahar Ph. D.
 
Well, the above can't be my statement. Those of you, who know me,  know, I have been working with the Rohingya people and Burma for the past 31 years. But surprisingly Burmese people who lived with the Rohingya people are the ones who clam that they have never heard of the name "Rohingya." It is as if saying I have never met my brother, or I have never seen my neighbour; sounds strange to me but not funny. Such assertion about an ethnic group aimed at intentionally ignoring them is called xenophobia, fear of the stranger. When Rohingyas as Burmese are made into strangers by the Rakhine gentlemen like Aye Kyaw, Aye Chan and the monk Ashin Nayaka in their statements and in their writings, it is more than xenophobia but is called racism. A matter of extreme intolerance: an idea that also goes against even Buddhism.
 
What is behind all this?
1. Burma is a huge country with more than 130 ethnic groups. Rohingyas are not included within them by the military government and their collaborators because the xenophob's assertion that they entered Burma after 1824 when the British occupied Arakan.
 
2.  How is this possible, the recently arrived Rohingya refugees show some of them are not even as old as 5 years to enter Burma in 1824. Strange logic indeed, against some people's birth rights. Well, the real story is Rohingyas as the Arakani Muslims are racially and religiously different from the racially Asian and religiously Buddhist Arakani and the Burmese majority population. The Karen Christians have similar problems in Burma because of their religious differences. . 
 
3. The fact is Arakan had an Indian kingdom first Hindu, later on Mohayana Buddhist (See the history of Mohamuni of Buddha statue now in Mandayay, see in the research work of Martin Smith "Muslim Rohingya of Burma). This is similar to Mohayana Buddhism in Bengal of the time. The Rakhines (also known as the Moghs identified in British history took the official name Rakhine during the 40's) recorded to have entered Arakan with Theravada Buddhism in the 10th century much later than Rohingya Muslim's arrival in Arakan.   
 
Where did all these people called Arakani Muslims go who began to settle in Arakan from the 8th century?
Where did the decendents of the soldiers of Wali Khan and Shandhi Khan who married with the local women go? These army of 30,000 by Wali Khan and  40, 000 by Sindkhan that went to Arakan to help the Arakani king and later settled in the Kaladan valley. Where did the decendents of the captured Bengalis forcefully brought to Arakan by the Portuguage in the 15th century to work in agritural lands go?

Well, they were all there settled all over Arakan. But after the 1942 Arakani Muslim genocide most of the Arakani Muslims came to the north of Arakan called the Mayu frontier and the Rakhines in the South. Then the situation was made more complicated when the British identified all the Arakani Muslims as the Indian Muslims because India and Burma were under the one British empire. In 1937 Burma was seperated from India and the Arakani Muslims's fate was also alloted with the Burmese country.
 
 To avoid the anti-foreigner movement that began in Rangoon by Otama, an Arakani reactionary monk, Rohingya leaders began to seperate their British labelled identity (of being as Indian immigrant Muslims settled in Rangoo. In order to do that they officially adapted an existing Burmese name called the "Rohingya " used by the Arakani Muslims before Britain occupied Arakan. The leaders officially adapted the name during the 50's.That was a smart move by the Rohingyas but to the military it was another excuse to attack the lamb as if like in the wolf Vs. lamb story. This provided the military the excuse that they have never heard of the name "Rohingya." "They must be "Bengalis" immigrant "Kula."

4. Surprisingly, the name "Rohingya" was heard by Francis Buchanan in 1798 in Burma, recorded in Francis Buchanan, in Southeast Bengal (1798): His Journey to Chittagong, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Noakhali and Comilla, (Dhaka: Dhaka University Press, 1992), 82.
Jacques Leider calls Arakan a "frontier culture." Rohingyas are as if the Shans of Burma who have their Thai causin across the border.
 
5. No wonder, there are still some Burmese people in Arakan says "We have never heard the name "Rohingya."Well, my question to a Burmese who says " I have never heard of the word "Rohingya" (a) Did you hear the news of Rohingya exodus of 1978 when 200,000 Rohingyas were forced out from Burma who were carrying NRC (national Registration Cards) because I personally varified their NRC cards in refugee camps in Ukiya Bangladesh. Burmese government was forced to take back Rohingyas due to the preasure from international body because Rohingyas were carrying documents. (b). Did you also hear that in 1982 Burmese military government through a constitutional Act officially denied Rohingyas's Burmese citizenship? (c) Did you hear that in the 1991-92 there was another huge Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh. This time Burma made sure that Rohingyas don't carry any NRC?
 
If you are still not sure of the name Rohingya, it is your problem because you are most likely not informed of your country; In that case I can not help in your ignorance.

Worst of all if you as a xenophobe is acting strangely it is called hypocrisy. In that case if you are a citizen of Burma, you are intentionally keeping yourself ignorant, so that you can pretend, surely you are a hypocrite.
 
But if you are promoting this pretension, "I have never heard the name" Rohingya," they must be foreigners" and you are helping the military to exterminate them, and let me tell you, even if you have deserted a Burmese government job in a foreign embassy and is now a powerful democracy movement leader in USA or in UK, you are more likely to be a double agent, a war criminal that demads to be investigated and exposed to the world.
 
If you say to me "I have never heard of the word "Rohingya" before." in your role of denying a people's birth right, and helping the military to exterminate them, you can not be a democracy movement leader.
 
In the mean time,  
The …exodus is a deep, sustained trickle of low visibility. The Rohingyas progressively leave Burma in small groups,
 families or individuals…. Little by little, the population is being forced to leave Arakan because of a deliberate policy of cleansing."- says FIDH International Federation of Human Rights.

In that situation an observer lately commented about the Rohingya  situation "The life of a Refugee is like a foot ball, kicking from bar to bar. One goal bar is  on the soil of east Naf River and another is west Naf River. The Naf River is a foot ball ground."  

Revolutionaries are not shy people. They know the difference between democracy-lovers and the reactionaries. As a matter of duty to Burma's democracy movement and to discourage the growth of xenophobia, reactionaries and their pretensions especially by responsible people should be brought to public attention.
 
 
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(Dedicated to the spirit of Stephen(UK) a friend of Burma, "Rise up for 4 Burma" and also to those who despice the cyber bullies (both the Rohingya and non Rohingya); the latter, the hudlums find pleasure in making the Rohingya image on the rohingyanet and in elsewhere their ultimate victim)

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[chottala.com] " More transports, more pollution"

Dear all
Today  The new nation publish " More transports, more pollution"
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/09/18/news0814.htm
Thanks
Syed Saiful Alam

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