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Internet Edition. May 10, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM

ICDDR, B overflows capacity: 20,000 people attacked in last 10 days

Staff Reporter
Hundreds of people - mostly children- are arriving at hospitals across the country daily. As last week, diarrhoeal diseases have been reported in more than 50 of the country's 64 districts, with over 20,000 people affected over the past 10 days, said hospital sources.
According to the Ministry of Health, about 10,000 new patients were admitted to the Government hospitals in 50 districts on May 8. Some 1,000 patients were admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) last couple of days.

US won't accept any deviation from path of election: Boucher says, emergency must go

UNB, Dhaka
The United States wants withdrawal of state of emergency to hold a good election in Bangladesh and it won't accept any deviation from the path of elections set for December this year. "Election must be held to get back to a democratically elected government next year. We could not certainly count other deviation or any other path," US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher told a press conference at the American Club here on Friday.
Asked if a credible election is possible under the state of emergency, Boucher said: "We don't think about good election under the emergency.

No let up in price situation :6 families controlling MS rod market Staff Reporter

A cartel of only six families is manipulating the MS rod market and making windfall profit leaving the entire construction sector into doldrums, according to different sources.
The construction sector has faced a big setback following unusual price hike of MS rod. Implementation of various development projects both in the public and private sectors has almost come to a grinding halt due to sky rocketing prices of MS rod, sources said.
The Government formed a high-powered committee last month to find out the reasons behind the unusual price hike of MS rod.

Row over Gitmo chief’s Pakistan posting

BBC Online

Pakistan says it has asked the United States not to appoint the former head of the US prison at Guantanamo as military envoy in Islamabad.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his government had "genuine reservations" over the appointment of Maj-Gen Jay Hood.
Washington has already cancelled the posting, The New York Times reports. No formal announcement has been made.
Correspondents say the appointment would have provoked uproar in Pakistan.
Hundreds of Muslim prisoners, many from Pakistan, have been held at Guantanamo without charge since the prison was set up following the 11 September, 2001 attacks on the US.

Double disaster awaits Myanmar cyclone survivors if humanitarian aid is not allowed immediately

As the death toll in last Saturday’s severe cyclone Nargis in Myanmar is feared to have reached 100,000 and thousands of survivors still awaited humanitarian assistance in the Irrawaddy delta disaster zone, the ruling junta yesterday seized UN aid shipments prompting the world body to suspend further help.
Aid groups have warned that the area is on the verge of a medical disaster and that thousands of children may have been orphaned. The UN estimates 1.5 million people have been severely affected and has voiced concern about the disposal of dead bodies.

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