I've also been checking the news from Bangladesh, just to start getting a feel for the country and what's going on there. The big story seems to be the offshore search for oil and gas which, if successful, would be a boon for the developing economy. The country has a relatively small coastline on the Bay of Bengal, and offshore boundaries are being disputed by neighbouring India and Myanmar (formerly Burma).
The politics are very confusing. There are two major parties, each led by a woman, and both leaders are in jail. The army runs the caretaker government, and has arrested 12,000 political prisoners, including the leader of the third party, in the past two weeks. The last time Bangladeshis actually had a chance to vote out a government was in 2001. It's a mess.
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