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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study, published in the latest online edition of Natural Hazards, suggests that Shanghai is the most vulnerable city to serious flooding. A team of researchers from the University of Leeds and the Netherlands base their findings on a new method they developed to calculate the flood vulnerability of cities. The index looks at the likelihood of a city's exposure to a major 'once in a hundred years' flood, along with social and...

NORTHBROOK, Ill. and DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UL, a world leader in advancing safety, announced today the acquisition of Magnus Textile Services, a leading textile testing and inspection facility based in Bangladesh. The addition enables UL to locally serve many of the world's top textile manufacturers from one of the largest and fastest growing textile exporting nations. Magnus provides a robust suite of textile performance testing and inspection services...

Bangladesh's first complete mobile financial service provider, bKash Limited, a BRAC Bank subsidiary, launched its mobile banking operation yesterday. Dhaka, Bangladesh (PRWEB) July 22, 2011 Bangladesh's first complete mobile financial service provider, bKash Limited, a BRAC Bank subsidiary, launched its mobile banking operation yesterday. bKash is designed to provide financial services via mobile phones to both the unbanked and the banked people of Bangladesh. The overall bKash value...

DUBAI, UAE, April 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 16th 2010, Seawings, Dubai's only seaplane tour operators, is extending their support to the Dhaka project through the sponsorship of the Seawings Polo team captained by Lise Stokes. Seawings will be providing the prizes on the day for best player as well as the best dressed woman and man. So come dressed to impress. The Dhaka Project, in order to raise awareness and funding for the coming year, is holding its first ever Polo...

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- TigerIT Bangladesh Limited, a leading global provider of AFIS and identity management solutions, announced today that the company's fingerprint matching and extracting algorithms proved overall superiority and ranked number 1 in the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) test by the NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology). The NIST test results were released on October 27, 2009 and revealed that combination of the TigerAFIS...

Rivers near Dhaka, Bangladesh, are biologically dead and especially toxic during dry seasons, a water resource expert said Saturday. The rivers around Dhaka have too little oxygen for the survival of aquatic life, Umme Kulsum Navera, assistant professor of Water Resource Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, told the news service IRIN. Oxygen levels increase during the monsoons but not enough to allow for a healthy aquatic environment. Specialists warn the...

Text of report headlined "China to help Bangladesh to set up Rooppur nuclear power plant" published by Bangladeshi newspaper New Age website on 25 September Beijing has assured Dhaka of help in peaceful use of nuclear technology for the implementation of Rooppur nuclear power plant to meet the growing demand for energy. Beijing positively responded to Dhaka's request as the interim government chief Fakhruddin Ahmed held meetings with the Chinese officials during his recent visit to China....

Text of report by Bangladeshi Bangla Vision TV on 21 September The police and law-enforcing agencies have received a threat that their establishments will be bombed if 10 detained members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir are not freed immediately. A fax message carrying the bomb threat was sent to the Rajshahi city police commissioner's office last evening and was signed by one Mohammad Obayedur Rahman Giyas. Police say they are not yet clear about the motive of the message, but think a strong group...

Text of report by Bangladesh's ATN Bangla TV on 2 September [Presenter: Lopa Hossain] Detained Senior Secretary-General of BNP [Bangladesh Nationalist Party] Tarique Rahman will be released on bail any time today, a senior jail official has said. DIG [Deputy Inspector-General] of Prisons Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui last night met Tarique Rahman [elder son of ex-PM Khaleda Zia]. Later he told reporters that they have already received documents of bail granted to Tarique in six cases. They are...

By Arpit Basu Kolkata: On Monday, Kingfisher officials submitted the letter of intent to commence international flights to Dhaka , Chittagong and Yangon at the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office in the city. While the airline is all set to start services to Dhaka and Chittagong from October 20, they are not yet ready with a specific timeframe for Yangon. "We met FRRO Basab Talukdar and submitted the letter of intent to commence international service from the city. Although...