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Popularly known as Dhaliwood, the Bengali film industry churns out some 100 low-budget movies yearly.

Bangladeshis reject "smutty" Bengali films

* * * * * DHAKA, April 20, 2004 - The lurid, hand-painted film hoardings towering above a Banglad...

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Bangladesh's Dhaka club

DHAKA, April 22, 2004 - When successful entrepreneur Geeteara Saffiya Choudhury was elected the f...

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Boatmen make preparations on their vessels before setting out on the Buriganga river in Dhaka.

Bangladesh's polluted Buriganga river cries out for help

Dhaka, May 4, 2003 - A cruise on Bangladesh's historic Buriganga river used to be a must for visi...

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Bangladeshi artist Mostafa Monawar, known as the 'puppet man' puts the final touches to a puppet in Dhaka.

Bangladesh's "Puppet Man"

Puppet shows are part of Bangladeshi folklore, but one man is trying to use the medium to spread ...

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Color mask made by students at Bangladesh's Art Institute.

Bangladeshi Artists Try to Revive Dying Traditions

Bangladesh's only scroll artist Shambhu Acharya learnt his skills from his father in a remote vil...

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Would you 'Adam and Eve' it? Cockney slang turns Bangladeshi

LONDON, Aug 22, 2005 - Cor blimey! The traditional Cockney London English is becoming tinged with...

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31-year-old Bangladeshi 'professional traveller' and anti-drugs activist Mohammed Ashrafuz Zaman has cycled around the globe for seven years, and now he is tackling Southeast Asia on foot.

44 Countries and counting . . .

* * * * * Singapore, April 22, 2004 - For seven years Bangladeshi "professional traveller" and an...

Bangladesh AFP/Yasmine Yahya

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Biswa Ijtema festival

Bangladesh's Biswa Ijtema festival is the second largest annual Islamic event after the hajj pilg...

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Bangladesh on the Web

CIA World Fact Book . CIA World Fact Book on Bangladesh. Information includes background informat...

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Bangladeshi Stamps Anyone?

Bangladesh, struggling to override an image shaped by monsoon floods and political unrest, is hop...

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