DHAKA: Bangladesh will persuade China to use Chittagong port as a commercial outlet for its southern Yunnan province, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday.

DHAKA:  Bangladesh will persuade China to use Chittagong port as a commercial outlet for its southern Yunnan province, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday.
The Bangladesh stance was announced nearly three months after Bangladesh had agreed to allow India, Nepal and Bhutan to use its two sea ports mainly Chittagong port.
“It will be a great achievement if China agrees to use our Chittagong port, which we want to develop into a regional commercial hub by building a deep seaport in the Bay of Bengal,” she told a news conference.
The offer for Chittagong port to Beijing will be discussed when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits China from Wednesday on a five-day itinerary, Moni said.
The impoverished south Asian country has taken plans to build an $8.7 billion deep-sea port in three phases to raise bulk cargo handling capacity to 100 million tonnes and container handling to 3.0 million twenty-feet equivalent unit (TEU) containers annually by 2055.
Presently the port handles 30.5 million tonnes of bulk cargo and 1.1 million TEUs annually.
Port officials said when built the port would serve Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar and the northeastern region of India.
To use Chittagong port China will need a road or railway link or both between Kunming, the capital of southern Yunnan province with Chittagong via Myanmar, Moni said.
Myanmar last year had agreed to expand a planned road project with Bangladesh to link up with China in a tri-nation network, another foreign ministry official said.
Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a deal in July 2007 to construct a 25 km (16 mile) road to connect the two countries and construction will begin soon, officials at the Communication Ministry said.
The road project between Myanmar and Bangladesh is nearing completion, a senior foreign ministry official said on Sunday.
Chinese investment for Bangladesh’s energy and IT sectors, boosting trade and seeking assistance for building a $9 billion deep seaport and a $2.5 billion river bridge will be on top of Hasina’s agenda.
China is Bangladesh’s biggest trade partner with annual turnover worth more than $4 billion — with the balance heavily in Beijing’s favour.
After bilateral talks with her Chinese counterpart and signing of probable agreements for financial assistance, Hasina will visit Kunming on March 20.

Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong warned that Google will ‘pay the consequences’ if it continues to go against Chinese law. Google announced in January that it would no longer comply with China’s internet censorship laws.
“We need to preserve our nation’s interest, our people’s interest, we cannot be relaxed with any information that will cause harm to the stability of our society, to our system, and to the health of our under-age young people,” he said.
Google began operations in China in 2006 to widespread criticism.
Relations between China and Google cooled in January after what Google described as a sophisticated cyber attack in which the webmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were targeted.
Since then, the firm has been in talks with Chinese officials about how to provide an unfiltered service but still remain within the law. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said this week that he hoped the results of those consultations would be revealed soon.

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Liang Zhi Qiang, Film-maker Liang zhi qiang’s secret affair with a young woman Zhong jia yan less than half his age was exposed on Friday after she showed up at his semi-detached home in Pasir Ris.

Miss Zhong jia yan, 22, was upset that Liang zhi qiang, 50, had apparently lied to her and demanded to see his wife on Friday.

Zhong jia yan said she had decided to make the affair public because she felt hurt and betrayed by Liang zhi qiang. She denied that she was using him to break into show business.

FANS of Liang zhi qiang are disappointed with the news of the local movie director’s extramarital affair, which made the front pages of all three Chinese papers yesterday.

Marketing and sales executive Vincent Chua, 55, who has watched many of his movies, said yesterday: ‘In his movies, he asks people to be good, honest and true to their families. But in real life, he can do anything. There is really a conflict.’

Industry watchers said the scandal may change the 50-year-old’s image and the way people view his movies.

News of the film-maker’s two-year affair with 22-year-old freelance model Zhong jia yan broke in the Lianhe Wanbao evening newspaper last Saturday. Chong told The Straits Times on Saturday night that it was she who had alerted the media to a meeting between Neo, his wife and herself at Crowne Plaza hotel in Changi airport on Friday.

MUMBAI INDIA: Khiladi Kumar got arrested for 4 hrs and even the tricks from the Shangai school of martial arts where of no use for the actor’s rescue. Of course not literally…

Now before you get ideas let us clarify that while Akshay Kumar was shooting in Filmcity for a particular scene that required him to be handcuffed the only key that opened the cuffs broke leaving Akshay handcuffed for over 4 grueling hours.

Reveals a source, “The cuffs had a single key that opened them. But while trying to open the handcuffs the key broke leaving Akshay handcuffed for over 4 hours since there was no spare key and it took a considerable amount of time for another key to be made.”

However Akshay Kumar being the professional that he is took it in the right spirit and went around sets handcuffed until another key was made.

Jack Neo Wendy Chong, Wendy Chong is Jack Neo affairs girl. When Jack Neo extramarital affairs was exposed yesterday,  we didn’t know Wendy Chong’s official English name, so we directly translated her name  to Zhong Jia Yan according to the Chinese pinyin.

Wendy Chong is a Singaporean Chinese, so it’s not surprised that she has a Chinese name. About herself, Wendy Chong under the username of tiramisu_wendy introduced on her now defunct blog http://smile2wendy.blogspot.com

I am WENDY – JIA YAN – And what else about me.. Okie,i think i’m lovely, smart, daring, very very imaginatve and i don’t love talking to strangers. and most importantly, there’s one thing i will never give up no matter how hard it’ll be or how many rejections i’ll go through, that’s acting. Because to perform,to act is not just a dream, but my life. It keeps me going even when life is down. I can only see the real me when i’m performing. It’s when im truly enjoying life.

More than that, now we know Wendy Chong is 22 years old in some news reports, but according to her biography on a model agency’s website she is 23, anyway, she was born around in 1988. Jack Neo was born in 1950, so now he is 50 years old.

Elinor Burkett, This may turn out the be the most interesting part of tonight’s snoozefestie Oscars. The Best Documentary Short speech was interrupted — Kanye’d as the lingo now goes — by red-headed Elinor Burkett. Burket was actually nominated for the award along with Roger Ross Williams but according to various Twitterers was not supposed to appear on stage for the speech. But boy did she ever. UPDATE: Multiple viewings would suggest they raced eachother to the stage, he got there first, she verbally elbowed him out of the way for the win.

MUMBAI INDIA: In the filmi circuit, Lara Dutta’s known to be not too friendly. Her co-star from Housefull, Akshay Kumar, remarks, “She’s a very serious person.

She doesn’t talk much.” To this, Lara says, “Yes I don’t talk much when I’m on the sets. You need to be serious about your work. I’m focussed about what I want to do, so I do that and leave.” But she doesn’t agree to the image that she’s not very friendly.

Watch me when I’m with my friends and you’ll agree that I’m fun-loving,” she said and adds, “About Akshay saying that I don’t talk much, well, with him around, who really gets a chance to talk. He does all the talking, so you are forced to keep quiet,” she smiles.

LOS ANGELES: Oscar Winning Movies, Here is the complete list of winners from Sunday night’s 82nd Academy Awards! Read on to see who took home an Oscar on film’s biggest night.

Best Picture
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro

Directing
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow

Actress in a Leading Role
WINNER: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”

Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER: Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”

Foreign Language Film
WINNER: “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina

Film Editing
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Documentary (Feature)
WINNER: “The Cove” Fisher Stevens, Louie Psihoyos

Visual Effects
WINNER: “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Music (Original Score)
WINNER: “Up” Michael Giacchino

Cinematography
WINNER: “Avatar” Mauro Fiore

Sound Mixing
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Sound Editing
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson

Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animated Feature Film
WINNER: “Up” Pete Docter

Art Direction
WINNER: “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
WINNER: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

Writing (Original Screenplay)
WINNER: “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal

Costume Design
WINNER: “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Documentary (Short Subject)
WINNER: “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Makeup
WINNER: “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Music (Original Song)
WINNER: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan

Short Film (Animated)
WINNER: “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin

Short Film (Live Action)
WINNER: “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Japan’s biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens trade anything from cooking tips to death threats, has long been an anarchic zone of uninhibited free speech and a magnet for controversy.

This week the raw commentary on 2channel — which with 10 million visits a month is one of the world’s largest online bulletin boards — saw tempers flare anew.

A massive hacker attack from South Korea crippled the site in retaliation for users’ online slights against Olympic skater Kim Yu-Na, after she beat Japanese rival Mao Asada to take gold at the Vancouver Winter Games.

The site was attacked on Monday, the anniversary of a 1919 uprising in Korea against Japanese colonial rule, and shut down for two days.

Japanese web users counter-attacked by bombarding South Korean sites, including that of the presidential office, according to South Korea’s JoongAng Daily, which called the tit-for-tat flaming “infantile”.

The Japanese site, www.2ch.net, does not ask for personal ID details and hosts unfiltered views, in contrast to most chat forums where registration and vetting have become the norm in a bid to keep discussion orderly.

“This is a vast group of bulletin boards on everything from hacking to porn,” the site tells users. It boasts about 1,000 topics, from politics to sport to manga comics.

“Sender information cannot be detected, so you can access it from your office, school or prison,” users are told. “Please write as you like.”

The site was launched in 1999 by a college student, Hiroyuki Nishimura, who has since written several books and is a regular on television shows.

Not counting online role-playing games, it is easily Japan’s biggest bulletin board by number of users and page views, according to research firm NetRatings Japan.

The site has given space for discussion on touchy subjects, including Japan’s royal family, and gay and lesbian life.

Companies and pollsters review the site to build marketing strategies and study the raw pulse of users and consumers.

At their best, the site’s postings have spawned books and movies, including a passionate chronicle by a shy man known as the Train Guy who dated a woman and sought advice from fellow 2channel users.

But no-holds-barred messages also voice sexist, nationalistic and xenophobic sentiments, many targeting Chinese and Koreans.

South Koreans were furious recently when a writer said the mob killing of a Korean college student in February in Irkutsk was “Russia’s good deed”.

At times, users have threatened crimes on the site.

One of them was Tomohiro Kato, who sent messages from his cellphone shortly before he killed seven people in a stabbing frenzy in Tokyo’s neon-lit electronics district in 2008, Japan’s bloodiest crime in years.

Nishimura, who gave up control of the site last year but maintains interests in many Internet companies, is unabashed about the darker side of 2channel.

“Ten million people come to the site every month. There is no city in the world with a population of 10 million that has no crime,” he said.

Tsutomu Kanayama, professor of journalism and communications at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, said 2channel laid bare the pluses and minuses of the social media revolution.

“Mainly because of the anonymity system, it has gone too far and is now full of offensive and meaningless comments,” he said.

“But on the other hand, it’s a positive trial for a future cyber-forum where anyone can pose real opinions freely. It has both a light and a dark side.”