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		<title>The men who rule DMCH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saad Hammadi spends three nights at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and reveals how packs of corrupt doctors, ward boys, and nurses are now running the hospital After a 24-hour struggle for life, Dipali Karmakar (62) finally lost the battle. Dipali, a mother of three sons and a daughter had suffered a brain haemorrhage when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=366&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Private hospitals fear no one</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year (2005) Saad Hammadi exposed that Dhaka’s Golden Hospital was running without a license. One year later he returns to the hospital and it has expanded its operations, still without a license, and riddled with rampant irregularities as is the case with most private clinics On August 14 last year Zamadiul Hoque’s elder brother fell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=361&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the cartel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following widespread allegations of cartels and syndicates controlling markets for rice, sugar, edible oil, and other essentials, for a long time, the government has drafted the Competition Act 2010 to address anti-competitive practices in businesses. Saad Hammadi finds out how the government plans to address the issue and speculates how unethical businesses can still hoodwink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=354&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spilled beans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saad Hammadi writes on the recent remarks made by the prime minister’s health affairs adviser Syed Modasser Ali Recent statements made by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s health affairs adviser Syed Modasser Ali undermines the public, who voted the government to power, and the promises made to them, on two accounts. Firstly, he brushed aside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=352&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘For RTI to be effective, there has to be political will&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Zamir, the newly-appointed Chief Information Commissioner, Information Commission Bangladesh talks to Saad Hammadi about how the Commission can facilitate people&#8217;s right to information The Right to Information Act is one of the most important instruments empowering those to who power should belong in democracy. Without a political will or commitment to divulge public information, how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=349&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The hartal legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although hartal by virtue is the political and constitutional right of the people protesting government failures at keeping with its promises and decisions or actions contrary to people’s interest, much has been criticised due to the sufferings hartal causes to the economy and daily activities of people. Although ideally hartals are considered to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=340&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minority report</title>
		<link>http://saadhammadi.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/minority-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-eight years afterBangladesh’s independence, many issues surrounding ethnic minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) still lie unresolved. Denied proper constitutional recognition, they have been slowly marginalised by settlers moving into their land, since the evictions due to the construction of Kaptai Dam in the 1960’s. Their frustration turned into military action in the 1970’s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=335&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>being me hurts!</title>
		<link>http://saadhammadi.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/being-me-hurts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been scared through and through of losing people I wished to be around with. But often it so happened that people I liked, I could never even gather the courage to express it out to them. Insecurity, fear can kill one from inside. I am saying from experience. I always feared asking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=328&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breeding ground of terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the complex web of militancy, Bangladesh is a victim of international terrorism as foreign terrorist organisations patronise local outfits, to thrive in their transnational operations. Saad Hammadi investigates how Pakistan based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba instigated terrorist attacks in Bangladesh, in the past, conniving with Harkat ul Jihad al Islami-Bangladesh The mujahideens (jihadists) of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=306&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The enigma of Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad Hammadi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Myanmar prepares for its first general elections in 20 years, barring many leading political leaders and representatives from participating, Saad Hammadi highlights the concerns for Bangladesh and delves into the history of the troubled nation BUDDHIKA WEERASINGHE/DrikNEWS With the national elections of Myanmar scheduled to be held in two days, international quarters and concerned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saadhammadi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1768578&amp;post=303&amp;subd=saadhammadi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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