Full Coverage: Bangladesh

25.10.2005 A two-day long "National consultation on designing an enabling framework for community radio in Bangladesh" to be held from 19-20 November 2005 at LGED auditorium, Agargoan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

25.10.2005 Foreign experts at a session titled 'Internet Governance and Telecom Regulation' urged the Bangladesh government, civil society and the business community to work together to provide Internet facilities to every person of the country.

21.10.2005 Bangladesh PM, Khaleda Zia urged the teachers to sincerely teach their students in classes to make the government's education sector programmes successful. She made the call when the representatives of primary school teachers met her to express their gratitude for the government's efforts and policies to expand education and ensure welfare of the teachers.

17.10.2005 The Bangladesh government approved the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) with a vow to alleviate poverty that bedevils half the countryÂ’s population, from different directions.

13.10.2005 The United Nations agency responsible for children vaccinated 1.3 million children between the ages of 9 and 10 in Bangladesh this September, reaching 98 per cent of their target, the UN ChildrenÂ’s Fund (UNICEF) said.

11.10.2005 In northern Bangladesh, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has devised an innovative way of providing educational services to river-locked citizens.

05.10.2005 Matiur Rahman, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's largest circulation Bangla-language newspaper, Prothom Alo, has been named the winner of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts.