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Soldiers give a couple of older residents a free haircut on Nanjing Road in Shanghai PM warns on Sunday as part of a traditional twice-monthly service. (Yong Kai / China Daily) against anti-govt. plot take the BNP’s threats centring on the March 12 Cholo (Go to Dhaka) pro- gramme lightly. Many BNP leaders maintain the main opposition will wage a movement to oust the government if it tries to obstruct their grand rally programme. Cabinet sources said a number of ministers, including Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Rail Minister Suranjit Sengupta and Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad, State Shanghai residents enjoy Minister for Liberation War Affairs AB Tajul Islam and HT Imam, an adviser to SHI YINGYING Feng Day,” said Huang, who had joined the long line for blood pressure the premier, raised in the meeting issues CHINA DAILY/ANN readings after dropping off her rusty related to the upcoming grand rally and scissors at the grinding booth. the December 18 clashes. ines of senior citizens waited in “They’ve been serving local com- They mentioned BNP Chairperson the rain over the past two morn- munities for years, so we trust them,” ’s warning that the govern- Lings on Shanghai’s Nanjing said Huang. “I’m going to have my ment would be toppled by March and Road for the army to arrive and pro- hair done after getting my blood pres- reminded the premier of some BNP lead- vide a range of free services. sure taken.” ers’ remarks on the grand rally. It’s a routine that has been hap- Wu Qiangqiang, a 19-year-old sol- The BNP’s acting secretary general pening twice a month for the past 63 dier from Ji’an, Jiangxi province, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had said years, but this month was special, picked up Huang’s scissors and put March 12 was a turning point. According marking Learn From Lei Feng Day them on the grindstone. to standing committee member Moudud yesterday. “You would never expect to pick Ahmed, the country’s political scenario Shortly after 8 am, the young sol- up skills like this in the army,” joked would be changed after the grand rally diers set up their station and started Wu, who started his service last year. programme. Sadeque Hossain Khoka had taking blood pressure readings, Prime Minister His comrade Xu Jia’nan’s skills advised the ruling party ministers not to grinding scissors, hairdressing and are more demanding - operating a come out of their residence on the day. sewing. HASAN JAHID TUSHER should be cautious so that the BNP can- sewing machine. The ministers at the cabinet meeting The 8th Company of 3rd Battalion not repeat what it did on December 18 “I don’t feel embarrassed at all THE DAILY STAR/ANN asked the premier to act on the BNP’s from the Shanghai Garrison last year. because I’m helping people,” said Xu, threats seriously as it was setting a time- Command, Nanjing Military Region, Hasina, also the ruling Awami League 19, from Hubei. “But neither my rime Minister Sheikh Hasina yes- line for overthrowing the democratic gov- People’s Liberation Army, has been chief, was speaking at a weekly cabinet father nor mother would believe I terday directed ministers and the ernment. providing the public service since the meeting at the secretariat. first day it was stationed on Nanjing could operate a sewing machine as Padministration to stay alert to the The government must investigate On December 18, the day the BNP Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) Road in 1949. I’m the type of guy who won’t do any arranged a reception of freedom fighters, whether any conspiracy against the gov- March 12 grand rally in the capital, say- Last week, Huang Biluo, 70, heard housework at home.” activists of the party and its key ally ernment was hatching and what the BNP ing the opposition might carry out sub- the news that “those lovely soldiers According to Zhu Huijuan, head of Jamaat-e-Islami clashed with police at could do on March 12, meeting sources versive activities to destabilise the coun- would come again on the 4th and 5th” East Nanjing Road’s Yunfeng commu- different points of the capital. At least 50 quoted the ministers as saying. try. and hurried to Nanjing Road on nity, the soldiers now have to rise at 4 homemade bombs were exploded, leaving Hasina also called upon all lawmakers Asking the home ministry to investi- Sunday on her bicycle. am in order to provide the free serv- one man dead and many injured. from Dhaka and its adjacent districts to gate whether there was any possible anti- “They usually come every 10th ice since they were relocated to the Some senior ministers at the meeting remain vigilant in their constituencies government plot, she said the ministry and 20th of the month but I heard city’s Baoshan district, about 20 km yesterday said it would not be wise to on March 12. this is special for Learn From Lei from Nanjing Road. Japan opposition Children more vulnerable to Internet party hints at backing addiction than adults, says Korean study consumption tax hike LEE WOO-YOUNG has yet to fully develop. So they are more likely to be addicted to the THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN THE KOREA HERALD Internet than adults,” said Woo Jee- hyang, a counselor at Seoul Culture senior official of the opposition Liberal ore children are addicted to High School. Democratic Party hinted at the possi- the Internet than adults, and The report added that underprivi- bility the party may support bills relat- Mteenagers are the most likely A leged students were more likely to be ed to the consumption tax rate hike, while age group to suffer Internet addiction, a Korean government study found addicted to the Internet, as the data Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda indicated he Monday. showed that teenagers from low- may call for the dissolution of the House of Children aged 5-9 are income families with Representatives. more addicted to the under 2 million won During a speech on March 4 in Kurobe, Internet, at 7.9 per (US$1,780) income per Toyama Prefecture, LDP Policy Research cent, than adults month showed a Council Chairman Toshimitsu Motegi said: aged 20-49 who had higher addiction “When the lower house votes on the bills, it’s an addiction rate of rate at 13 per cent; expected that there will be some difficulties A lotus flower blooms on a pond behind rental shelters of Cambodian scrap collectors 6.8 per cent, accord- those from multi- cultural families at as there could be a rebellious move [within ing to the study by near a garbage dump at Choeung Ek complex, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, 14.2 per cent; and those the Democratic Party of Japan]. Ruling and Cambodia, Thursday, March 1, 2012. (AP) the Public Administration Ministry from a single parent fami- opposition parties will both be required to ly at 10.5 per cent, which all have an open dialogue at various levels to and the National Information Society Agency. exceeded the average rate of 10.4 per prevent growing confusion, and as the oppo- Students banned from writing 13 topics on Cambodia The addiction rate for children is cent for teenagers. sition party, the LDP needs to play a certain higher than the average rate of 7.7 per Among adults, those in their 20s role.” RASMEI KAMPUCHEA DAILY/ANN was quoted as saying. cent for all age groups. were twice likely to have Internet Established last year as a joint venture In his remarks, Motegi referred to signs The research was conducted on addiction at 9.2 per cent than 4.7 per he Research Department at the Royal between Korea Exchange and the Ministry that former DPJ President Ichiro Ozawa and 10,000 citizens ? 663 children, 2,130 cent in their 40s. Most of them with an University of Law and Economics in of Economy and Finance, the Cambodia addiction problem were in college or his supporters are gathering steam within the Securities Exchange is expected to start teenagers and 7,207 adults ? from TCambodia has banned fourth-year unemployed. ruling party in their opposition to bills related students from writing theses on the new trading securities this year with at least one October 24 to December 10 last year in More men were addicted to the to raising the consumption tax rate. Cambodian Securities Exchange and 13 state-owned enterprise, the Phnom Penh the form of one-on-one interviews. Internet at 9.1 per cent than women at It was the first time the LDP leadership other topics considered to be written about Water Supply Authority, targeted for listing. Those aged 10-19 had the highest 6.1 per cent. has touched on the possibility of backing the too often, the Cambodia Daily reported Other topics allegedly written about too addiction rate, 10.4 per cent. Of them, Tuesday. often by fourth-year students include land Internet addicts identified by the bills. The remarks were believed to have high school students had the highest “The topics are repeated over and over disputes, labor disputes, illegal drug use study spent an average 2.7 hours a day been made in the belief that Noda might incidence at 12.4 per cent. so that’s why the department made the and the management of the Cambodian “Children and teenagers can’t con- playing online games and surfing the agree to dissolve the lower house in Red Cross headed by First Lady Bun Rany announcement,” Vice rector Lu Channa trol their emotions as their frontal lobe net. exchange for the LDP’s support. Hun Sen, the newspaper said. Meanwhile, Noda has not denied the pos- sibility of a lower house dissolution. Asked in a TV news program about the possibility of dissolving the lower house China seeks measures to aid elderly population before the bills are enacted, Noda said there were various courses of action that could be WANG HONGYI released by the China National older. They will make up 11.1 per cent of taken when working to fulfill his duty to the CHINA DAILY/ANN Committee on Ageing on March 1. the population. Meanwhile, more than 51 people. And the increases are only expected million people who are 65 or older will The government and the DPJ want to fficials are calling for measures to to come more rapidly in the future. be “empty nesters”, or parents whose hold talks with the opposition camp, while cope with the rapid growth of the Officials say the number of people children have moved out, according to promoting intraparty coordination to submit Ocountry’s elderly population. who are 60 or older will exceed 200 mil- Minister of Civil Affairs Li Liguo. the bills to the Diet by the end of this month. By the end of 2011, the number of lion by next year and reach 400 million Chen Chuanshu, executive deputy by 2033. According to predictions, every director of the China National The ruling party and the LDP have Chinese who were 60 or older had hit 185 year from 2014 to 2033 will see the addi- Committee on Ageing, said the aging engaged in a tug-of-war regarding the bills million, and that group made up about 13.7 per cent of the population. tion of 10 million elderly people on aver- issues deserve attention, especially since since Noda and LDP President Sadakazu age. they are likely to be of great conse- Tanigaki held a secret meeting late last Just a year before, the number had been 177.6 million, according to a report By the end of 2015, China will be quence for social and economic develop- month. home to 24 million people who are 80 or ment.