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...much domestic demand for new tuk tuks. Mostly it's spare parts and repairs." Even if local demand is falling, Thailand remains the world's foremost exporter of the three-wheelers, shipping up to 5,000 new and second-hand tuk tuks a year to neighbors such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. "People all over the world are interested in tuk tuks," Anuwat says. "They buy them for novelties or for transport vehicles, garbage trucks, ice-cream vans." Another big manufacturer, Asian Quality Company, is exporting a VIP tuk tuk to Egypt and Europe, mainly...
...India vs. Bangladesh: An argument over the citizenship of a group of snake charmers trying to cross into India inflamed debate over the number of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India (Dhaka says none; New Delhi says 20 million...
...international cinema. When the five Best Foreign Language Film nominees are announced this week, they'll be chosen from a record 54 movies from as many countries. The list includes strong entries from such cinematic hotbeds as France and Iran, as well as first-time entries from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Chad. But some of the world's best films aren't even in the running. A thicket of obscure, often contradictory Academy rules have kept critical and box office favorites from being considered. The strict and sometimes nonsensical criteria raise doubts about the Academy's world view. And politics aside...
...this environment, foreign reporters are routinely denied visas to Bangladesh. So Channel 4's crew?British reporter Zaiba Malik and Italian cameraman Bruno Sorrentino?entered as tourists. The authorities were tipped off by a pro-Islamic daily, and we were tailed by police intelligence agents. On Nov. 25, Malik, Sorrentino and Bangladeshi interpreter Priscilla Raj were arrested at the border with India and charged with sedition. I wasn't with them that day. Hearing of their arrest, I decided to lay low. I slept at a friend's home and instructed my 18-year-old son to empty our house...
...told me that her interrogators tortured her with electric shocks. Before the arrests, however, the Channel 4 team got 80% of their film footage out of the country. The documentary has yet to be broadcast, but if the world is able to see?and read?how Bangladesh is being transformed into a repressive nation, then the suffering and anxiety I and my family have endured will be worthwhile. But for now, I feel I have emerged from a small jail only to enter another, much larger prison...