Pro-opposition Lawyers Protest Against Appellate Division Verdict/National Woman's Cricket Team Gets Warm Welcome Upon Arrival From 2010 Asian Games

Pro-opposition Lawyers Protest Against Appellate Division Verdict

Pro-Awami League lawyers led processions too, in support of the verdict


Lawyers of Begum Khaleda Zia, in hands with Supreme Court bar council, showed stand-in protest before the court room after the verdict on Khaleda Zia's residence was given by the Appellate Division. The AD gave the verdict that the government order to excrete the allotment of Begum Khaleda Zia's cantonment residence was valid. The lawyers present outside the court reacted immediately at this verdict, which they denote as the partiality of a deformed judiciary in favor of the ruling party.

Though extraordinary security measures were taken to prevent any rallies or processions from being held, both the pro-opposition lawyers and the pro-Awami League lawyers led processions inside the court compound, respectively in protest and in support of the Appellate Division verdict.
(Source: Bangladesh First)

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In Pictures

National Woman's Cricket Team Gets Warm Welcome Upon Arrival From 2010 Asian Games With Silver


Bangladesh woman's cricket team gets a warm welcome at the airport upon their arrival in Dhaka with the silver medal from the 2010 Asian Games at Guangzhou, China. To the journey to the final match of the competition against Pakistan where the tigresses suffered a 10 wickets defeat, they played against Hong Kong, Japan and China earlier. All the three opponents were beaten including China being beaten in the semifinal. The tigresses arrived in Dhaka airport at 22 November midnight where the jubilant officials already had arranged a warm reception ceremony for the girls who made Bangladesh proud in the 2010 Asian Games.

(Source: Bangladesh First)

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Program News
As President Obama Tackles Climate Change in Indonesia, Internews Helps Train Local Journalists How to Cover the Story
(November 10, 2010) President Barack Obama pledged this week that the United States will offer $136 million to tackle climate change in Indonesia, a country environmentalists say is “ground zero” for global environmental challenges.
Understanding the challenge in Indonesia, Internews is already at work making sure the story of environmental issues there are covered knowledgeably and responsibly.
With a $200,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Internews has embarked on a two-year project to strengthen and expand the nascent Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists (SIEJ). The project will build the capacities of media and journalists to meet the urgent rising challenges of Indonesia’s environmental risks, changes and needs.
The project aims to increase the quantity, quality and impact of environmental coverage in the Indonesian media, and to help provide technical and financial support to Indonesian journalists.
Internews has worked in numerous countries to build the technical and scientific understanding of issues such as climate change, biodiversity, oceans, forests and environmental health among local journalists as part of its Earth Journalism Network (EJN) initiative led by James Fahn, a journalist and author specializing in environmental issues.
“A local, informed debate on the environment can only start with local, informed journalists,” Fahn said. “Generally speaking, the people and communities who suffer the effects of environmental degradation most acutely also tend to be the least informed about these issues, and the most poorly served by the media, and that’s certainly the case in Indonesia, as well. With this Packard Foundation funding, we are helping to change that.”
With the support of Internews and the Packard Foundation, the SIEJ aims to help Indonesian journalists publish or broadcast some 200 stories on environmental issues over the next two years, including at least 20 in-depth investigative reports. The number of journalists involved in the SIEJ is expected to grow to 250 trained professionals.
Indonesia is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world, and a virtual superpower when it comes to marine biodiversity. Although Indonesia occupies only 1.3% of the Earth's land surface, it is home to large portions of the world’s known species, including approximately 12% of mammals, 16% of reptiles and amphibians, 17% of birds and 25% of fish.
Each year, new species are found in Indonesia, while at the same time the country has the largest number of vertebrate species under threat of extinction: 128 species of mammals and 104 species of birds.
(Source: Internews)