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...Toral, head of health care consultancy Mednet Asia and a former group marketing director at Bumrungrad. "These hospitals have a large captive audience and have learned that one way to win customers is to appeal to their stomachs." That's why Bumrungrad already hosts the "Roman-style" Portofino, the Bangla House (serving Bengali, Egyptian and Thai food) and the Au Bon Pain sandwich bar and deli, plus a McDonald's that makes in-house deliveries (hardly a cholesterol-reducing prescription...
...Prime Minister Khaleda Zia or even to the leader of the opposition, Sheikh Hasina. As for the rise of the Islamic insurgency, how can the Prime Minister state that she didn't know about it until the Aug. 17, 2005, bombings, when there had been news reports about Bangla Bhai [the founder of two extremist groups] and his alleged co-conspirator, Sheikh Abdur Rahman, months before? The fight against the insurgency is simply a stage-managed drama by the ruling party to gain ground in the upcoming election. Umran Chowdhury Dhaka...
...acknowledged J.M.J.B., accusing these two organizations of "a series of murders, robberies, bomb attacks, threats and various kinds of terrorist acts," and of "trying to create social unrest by misleading a group of youths and abusing their religious sentiments." Police are still looking for Azizur Rahman (also known as "Bangla Bhai" or "Bangla brother"), the man they claim is the J.M.J.B.'s leader. Reflecting the authorities' new attitude, State Minister Babar publicly lamented the failure to apprehend him, saying: "We feel very disturbed and embarrassed about this." The security services announced a border alert for 20 fugitives, including Rahman...
...Bangla Bhai, who has told the Bangladeshi press that he is committed to establishing a Taliban-style Islamic government in the northwest of the country, remains at large. Although Prime Minister Zia has ordered his arrest, the police appear to have made little progress, fueling widespread suspicions that the government isn't serious about cracking down on Islamic terrorism. Bangla Bhai has said that his organization's goal is merely "to awaken people's religious feelings to establish their links with the creator...
...charge, asserting that his government is investigating all the terrorist attacks thoroughly. Yet opponents point out that months after the Chittagong arms haul, the authorities have still not made any significant progress in identifying the men who were trafficking the weapons, just as they have failed to catch Bangla Bhai...