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Point-Counterpoint
  Straight Line
Primacy of institution building
Muhammad Nurul Huda
The commendable reform venture of the present government has brought to the fore the large scale deviations and malfunctioning that have taken place in our body-politic.
Picture East-west
Hong Kong under Chinese rule
After ten years
A.K. Enamul Haque
On July 1, 1997 China got back Hong Kong (HK) which was given to the British government in 1842 through the Treaty of Nanjing (following the Opium War that began in 1840).
 
East-west
Not everything is as it seems
Philip Shaw
As apocalypses go, Hong Kong in 1997 seemed to be on everybody's radar. I visited Hong Kong in 1993 four years before the zero hour.
Picture Dengue: Time to act now
Dr Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin
Dengue is a disease caused by any one of four closely related viruses (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, or DEN-4). The viruses are transmitted to humans by an infected mosquito.
 

 
   
 
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