BRAC

Latest News From The Daily Star

• Brac boss to be knighted

  The founder and chairperson of Brac Fazle Hasan Abed is to be knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to alleviating poverty in Bangladesh and abroad.

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• Weather concern for second Test against NZ

  The second and the final Test of the Brac Bank Series between Bangladesh and New Zealand starts today with more concern on weather conditions rather than the prospects of the match.

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• Series decider today

  When Bangladesh take on New Zealand in the third and final one-day match of the Brac Bank series at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium today the country will reach a statistical milestone.

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• Tame draw hands Kiwis the series

  Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Bin Mortaza put on a stubborn 78 runs for the seventh wicket as Bangladesh recovered from an early morning jitters to enforce a draw in the second and final Test of the BRAC Bank Series against New Zealand at the Sher-e-B

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• Kiwis clinch series as Taylor hits ton

  Bangladesh lost a golden opportunity to score a series victory over a major Test-playing nation as New Zealand clinched the three-match Brac Bank ODI series 2-1 with a comprehensive 79-run win here at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday.

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Latest News From Around The World

• BBC

  Bangladesh NGO head gets UK award

  The founder of one of the world's largest non governmental organisations, Brac, is honoured in the UK.

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• The Guardian

  The Asian way of handling the world | Simon Chesterman and Kishore Mahbubani

  The pragmatic Asian approach to international affairs offers a fresh, constructive way of dealing with a variety of challenges

  Is there an "Asian way" to resolving global challenges? The conventional answer is no. But elem

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• The Guardian

  Free text messages save lives in Malawi

  A simple SMS system is revolutionising medical care in Malawi, where scarce resources and a skeleton hospital staff must serve thousands of people spread over hundred of square miles

  When Josh Nesbit first visited St Gabriel's hospital in th

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• The Observer

  New Year honours list: Diplomatic service and overseas

  Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George and Order of the British Empire

  Knights Bachelor

  Professor David Alan Chipperfield, CBE, Architect and CEO, David Chipperfield Architects. For serv architecture in the

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• The Economist

  Face value: BRAC in business

  Fazle Hasan Abed has built one of the world’s most commercially-minded and successful NGOs

  SMILING and dapper, Fazle Hasan Abed hardly seems like a revolutionary. A Bangladeshi educated in Britain, an admirer of Shakespeare and Joyce, and

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