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Thursday, May 29, 2008

[vinnomot] Re: [Dahuk]: CTG is totally naked now After the statement of the four oldest journalist s of the country


A nitwit is trying to justify the  misdeeds of this susil supported, millitary backed, NBR favorite inept CTG against the journalists.

 

 Have some laugh seeing the logic of blind supporter of the CTG. it is good for health.

 

 

অদক্ষ তত্ববধায়কদের জন্য দেশের প্রতিদিনের ক্ষতি কত কোটি টাকা?

--- On Tue, 5/27/08, Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Dahuk]: CTG is totally naked now After the statement of the four oldest journalist s of the country
To: tritiomatra@yahoogroups.com, vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, alochona@yahoogroups.com, dahuk@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, odhora@yahoogroups.com, bristi_namai@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 7:50 AM

Do you have any idea aobut what happens in our parliament.  In mid fifties  speaker of the provincial assembly was killede by the  members of the provincial assembly. Our parliamentary history is nothing t write hme about. So I want t ask you wheter do we at all require sucvh a parliament?

                      Salahuddin ayubi

--- On Mon, 5/26/08, mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd @yahoo..com> wrote:

From: mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd @yahoo.com>
Subject: [Dahuk]: CTG is totally naked now After the statement of the four oldest journalist s of the country
To: tritiomatra@ yahoogroups. com, vinnomot@yahoogroup s.com, alochona@yahoogroup s.com, dahuk@yahoogroups. com, notun_bangladesh@ yahoogroups. com, chottala@yahoogroup s.com, khabor@yahoogroups. com, odhora@yahoogroups. com, bristi_namai@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, May 26, 2008, 2:38 AM

At the beginning , the  brother in law of  fakhruddi, the Foreign adviser Iftekhar said that  the media  and journalists are the parliament members of this CTG..

 What  a  susil  behaviour this CTG is doing with its parliament members!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
 
 After the  statement of the four oldest journalist of the country, is there any cloth on the body of this CTG?

 

চার প্রবীণ সাংবাদিকের বিবৃতি

চার প্রবীণ সাংবাদিকের বিবৃতি

প্রকাশ্য-অপ্রকাশ্য নিয়ন্ত্রণ নিয়ে উদ্বেগ

চার প্রবীণ সাংবাদিক কে জি মুস্তফা, এবিএম মূসা, নির্মল সেন ও কামাল লোহানী এক বিবৃতিতে সা¤প্রতিককালে সব ধরনের গণমাধ্যমের উপর প্রকাশ্য ও অপ্রকাশ্য নিয়ন্ত্রণ আরোপ এবং সংবাদপত্র ও টেলিভিশনে কর্মরত সাংবাদিক এবং মফস্বল সংবাদদাতাদের হয়রানি ও হুমকি প্রদানে উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করেছেন। তারা বর্তমান ক্ষমতাসীন সরকারকে সকল সংবাদ, মন্তব্য, প্রতিবেদন প্রকাশ ও স¤প্রচার জরুরি আইনের বিধি-নিষেধের আওতামুক্ত করার দাবি জানিয়েছেন। এই সকল বিধি-নিষেধ প্রত্যাহার ও হয়রানি বন্ধের দাবিতে সাংবাদিক সমাজ ও তাদের নেতৃবৃন্দকে শুধু মৌখিকভাবে সোচ্চার হওয়া নয়, সংগ্রামী ও সক্রিয় ভূমিকা নেয়ার আহ্বান জানান।

প্রসঙ্গত চার সাংবাদিক বলেন, 'একই সঙ্গে আমরা দেশের রাজনৈতিক নেতৃবৃন্দকে স্মরণ করিয়ে দিতে চাই, অতীতে গণতন্ত্র পুনরুদ্ধার, মানবাধিকার রক্ষা ও মতপ্রকাশের স্বাধীনতা নিশ্চিত করার জন্য বিভিন্ন সময় বিভিন্ন আন্দোলনে আমরা এক কাতারে শামিল হয়েছিলাম। অথচ আজকে তারা গণমাধ্যম ও সাংবাদিকদের দুর্দিনে একাত্মতা প্রকাশের ব্যাপারে নিশ্চুপ রয়েছেন। তাদের যারা একটি রাজনৈতিক সংলাপে অংশ নিচ্ছেন তাদের সাংবাদিকতার ও মতপ্রকাশের স্বাধীনতা ও সাংবাদিক হয়রানির বিষয়টি সেখানেই আলোচনা করার অনুরোধ জানাচ্ছি। অপরদিকে অপ্রীতিকর পরিস্থিতির শিকার সাংবাদিকদের আমাদের কাছে তাদের সকল তিক্ত অভিজ্ঞতার বিস্তারিত বিবরণ পাঠাতে বলছি।

চার প্রবীণ সাংবাদিক গত শুক্রবার জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাবে একটি বৈঠকে 'স্বাধীন গণমাধ্যমের জন্য আমরা চারজন' (ডব ঋড়ঁৎ ভড়ৎ ঋৎবব গবফরধ) নামে একটি ফোরাম গঠন করেন। বৈঠক শেষে সাংবাদিক চতুষ্টয় বলেন, 'ইতিমধ্যে আমাদের কাছে অনেক জাতীয় এবং আঞ্চলিক পত্রিকার সম্পাদক ও সাংবাদিক এবং টিভি সাংবাদিক ও মফস্বল সংবাদদাতারা সংবাদ প্রকাশ, প্রচার, প্রেরণ ও স¤প্রচারের ক্ষেত্রে কোন কোন মহল কর্তৃক হয়রানির দুঃসহ অভিজ্ঞতা চিঠি, টেলিফোন ও ই-মেইলের মাধ্যমে অবহিত করেছেন। সংবাদপত্র ও টিভি আলোচক এবং কলাম লেখকদের একটি অলিখিত কালো তালিকা তাদের জানিয়ে দেয়া হয়েছে বলে অভিযোগ করেছেন। এমতাবস্থায় অতীত দিনের মতো বর্তমান সঙ্কটময় পরিস্থিতি মোকাবিলার জন্য অগ্রণী ভূমিকা পালনের জন্য নিগৃহীত সাংবাদিকগণ আমাদের অনুরোধ জানিয়েছেন। তাদের এই অনুরোধের প্রেক্ষিতে আমরা বর্তমান সাংবাদিক নেতৃবৃন্দের ও সম্পাদকদের সঙ্গে আলোচনা করে অচিরেই স্বাধীন গণমাধ্যম আন্দোলনের কার্যকর কার্যসূচি ঘোষণা করবো।' বিজ্ঞপ্তি

http://www.manabzam in.net/lead- 03.htm
 
 


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[vinnomot] Is it lawful to give Zakat to a disbeliever? / comment

None of Moslim Countries have ever given Charity for Non Moslims besides Col. Qaddafi ruled Libya, who used to issue some grants to Colleges and Universities in USA, where Libyan Students were sent to study and King Zahir Shah ruled Iran used to do the same.
 
No Moslim, who became Multi Millionaires or Billionaires living in Non Moslim rich advance countries have been known to give Charity to Non Moslim Organizations of those countries either though, they earned all their wealth off Non Moslims. Pretty crude facts, while almost all poor Moslim Countries have been living-off Charity of Non Moslim Countries for decades. Aren't they?
 
Forget about giving Charity to Non Moslims, Moslim rich don't think of giving Charity to their own kind. The Problem is, it takes them too long to realize they are rich enough and they usually die before realizing this. Allaho Akbar ...! What can you do? 

STUDENT of THE QURAN <irtaza1@yahoo.com> wrote:
[1:1] In the name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
 
 
Salam Mr. Khan.
 
It is not prohibited at all to give Zakat to a disbeliever.
 
Please examine the following teachings of the Prophet Muhammad on the charity:
 
[2:177] Righteousness is not turning your faces towards the east or the west. Righteous are those who believe in GOD, the Last Day, the angels, the scripture, and the prophets; and they give the money, cheerfully, to the relatives, the orphans, the needy, the traveling alien, the beggars, and to free the slaves; and they observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat); and they keep their word whenever they make a promise; and they steadfastly persevere in the face of persecution, hardship, and war. These are the truthful; these are the righteous.
 
[2:215] They ask you about giving: say, "The charity you give shall go to the parents, the relatives, the orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien." Any good you do, GOD is fully aware thereof.

[9:60] Charities shall go to the poor, the needy, the workers who collect them, the new converts, to free the slaves, to those burdened by sudden expenses, in the cause of GOD, and to the traveling alien. Such is GOD's commandment. GOD is Omniscient, Most Wise.

[17:26] You shall give the due alms to the relatives, the needy, the poor, and the traveling alien, but do not be excessive, extravagant.
 
The Quran never ever makes any distinction whatsoever among believing and disbelieving parents, relatives, the needy, the poor and the traveling alien when comes to paying Zakat or obligatory charity to them.  Sadly, man made teachings falsely attributed to the Prophet Muhammad diverts us from the path of God:

[31:6] Among the people, there are those who uphold baseless Hadith, and thus divert others from the path of GOD without knowledge, and take it in vain. These have incurred a shameful retribution.
 
Thank you and may God guide us,
 
M. Irtaza
 
 
 
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Shahid Khan <> wrote:
 
Is it lawful to give Zakat to a disbeliever?
Q- Is it lawful to give Zakat to a disbeliever?
 
A- I! t is pro hibited to give Zakat to a disbeliever, a dhimmi (a non-Muslim living under the protection of an Islamic government), or an atheist, because the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that Zakat "is to be taken from the rich amongst them and be given to the poor amongst them" meaning that Zakat is to be taken from the rich amongst the Muslims and be paid back to the poor also amongst them and thus non-Muslims are not to be given anything from it.
Ibnul-Mundhir says, "All the scholars (religious scholars and those of Fiqh) we have learned from unanimously agree that no dhimmi is to be given anything from the Zakat funds."
 
 
Compiled from various sources.
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 [33:62] God's Sunnah is unchangeable 
[39:23] The Quran is the best Hadith

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[vinnomot] Aussie Imams on Pay Roll of Saudis?

I have no objections to anybody's or any country's support of Mosques or Islamic Religious Schools and paying salary to Imams if they don't dictate, what to be preached and taught to young Moslim Children. It has been proven that Saudis are preaching hate against Non Moslims openly. They want even US Born Moslim children to become Traitors of their country. Where does it say in Qoraan to do that?
 
Aren't Saudi-backed Taliban blowing themselves up to kill Pakistani Soldiers and Policemen twice a week?
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Tarek Fatah <tarekfatah@rogers.com> wrote:
May 19, 2008

Muslim leaders on pay-roll of Saudis

Richard Kerbaj
The Australian, Sydney
 
SIX Australian-based Muslim clerics who are leaders of the Islamic community in t! he count ry are on the payroll of the Saudi Government, receiving allowances of up to $2000 a month.
 
The Australian can reveal for the first time the identity of the clerics - some paid through the Saudi embassy in Canberra, others directly from Riyadh's Dawah (preaching) Office - who receive between 3500 and 7000 Saudi riyal ($1975) a month.
 
The payments to the six - who include former Howard government adviser Amin Hady and Melbourne Somali imam Isse Musse - are part of Saudi Arabia's multi-billion-dollar campaign to transform its hardline image in the West.
 
However, Sheik Hady told The Australian there were as many as 14 others in the country being paid by the Saudis.
 
The other four clerics on the list provided early last year by the embassy to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are understood to be Yousef Hussein, from al-Taqwa Mosque in Melbourne's southwest; Indian imam Mohammad Anas, from Auburn's Omar Mosque in Sydney's west; Mohammad Mahet Dahir, from the Albanian Australian Islamic Society; and West Australian Somali community leader Mohammad Abdullah Ahmed.
 
Security contacts say ASIO held no concerns about the clerics.
 
Saudi Arabia has pumped more than $120 million into Australia since the 1970s to fund mosques, Islamic groups and clerics to propagate Wahhabism, the puritanical brand of Islam espoused by al-Qa'ida.
 
The Malaysian and Indonesian governments have also funded Islamic initiatives in Australia.
Sheik Hady defended the allowance he has received since his arrival in Australia more than 25 years ago, saying it came with no strings attached.
 
"So far, they never tell any of the preachers what to say and what to do," said the Indonesian imam at Zetland Mosque, in Sydney's inner south.
 
"We are fully independent of what we do ... they never instruct that this is what we should teach and this is what we should not. "I don't think there is any notion with Wahhabism being imposed by anyone."
 
He refused to be drawn on how much money he received from the Saudis, but said there were as many as 20 clerics on Riyadh's books. "There are many - there are 15 to 20 people," he said.
 
While Sheik Hady refused to name others on the Saudi payroll, it is understood that Canberra cleric Mohammad Swaiti - revealed in April last year praising jihadists in a sermon - was being paid by Riyadh.
 
Sheik Hussein said he dealt directly with Riyadh's Dawah Office, which employed him on its programs to teach Islam before he migrated to Australia 23 years ago.
 
The Jordanian-born imam, a graduate of Saudi Arabia's Islamic University of Madinah, said he gave his allowance from Riyadh to the community.
 
"There's an opinion about taking money for teaching Koran and is it halal (permissible) or haram (forbidden)," he said in an interview conducted in Arabic and English.
 
Asked if he received any orders about what to preach, he said: "No, we're Muslim, we don't say what we want, we say what the Koran and the prophet Mohammed want us to understand and to say, and that is what we teach the people. We don't teach people our opinion."
 
Sheik Dahir migrated to Australia a decade ago after graduating from King Saud University in Riyadh, and admitted having received an allowance from the embassy, but said he was no longer on the payroll.
 
Sheik Anas said he received an "irregular" monthly clerical allowance of between $1500 and $1600 for "for the betterment of Muslims on the grounds of religious education".



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[vinnomot] FW: Bangladesh: Justice is only for the little people

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[vinnomot] Popular Vote Poison [Newsweek story]

Newsweek 
 
 
Popular Vote Poison
How Hillary's latest math hurts the party.
Jonathan Alter
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 3:31 PM ET May 21, 2008
 
 
Give credit where it's due: Hillary Clinton has shown grit and determination in finishing out the race. She has proved herself a strong campaigner. And in the week since West Virginia, she has stopped the cheap shots that had marred her campaign this year.
But Clinton has continued with one claim that could have a pernicious effect on the Democrats' chances in November. While she knows that the nomination is determined by delegates, Hillary insists on saying at every opportunity that she is winning the popular vote. And she has now taken to touting the new HBO movie "Recount," which chronicles the Florida fiasco of eight years ago. Everyone can agree that the primary calendar needs reform. But popular-vote pandering is poison for Democrats. For a party scarred by the experience of 2000, when Al Gore received 500,000 more popular votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency, this argument is sure to make it harder to unite and put bitter feelings aside.
Oh, and it's not true.
Let me go through the numbers without making your head spin.
After Kentucky and Oregon, Obama has an official popular vote lead of 449,486.
This does not include Iowa (where Obama first broke from the pack), Nevada (where Hillary won the popular vote narrowly), Maine (where Obama won easily) or Washington state (another strong Obama state). Why? Because these caucus states don't officially report their popular votes. But if we're going to truly count all the votes, official and nonofficial, as Hillary advocates, you can't very well not include caucus states.
Adding in the unofficial tally from caucus states, as estimated by realclearpolitics.com based on official caucus turnout and the number of local delegates selected at the precinct level, that gives Obama a lead of 559,708.
Now we come to Florida and Michigan, whose popular votes Hillary says should be counted. The argument for counting them is no better than for counting the caucus states (and maybe worse, considering that these states violated party rules by moving their primaries up on the calendar, and no one campaigned there). But for the sake of argument let's count 'em. That gives Hillary a lead of 63,373.
HILLARY WINS POPULAR VOTE!
Not so fast. If the Democratic National Committee completes its expected settlement on May 31, Florida and Michigan will each get half of their votes counted. Translated to popular votes, that would subtract about 325,000 votes from Hillary, putting Obama back into the lead.
Beyond not being official numbers, there's another problem with counting Michigan in these totals. Obama wasn't on the ballot there. You can say this was his own choice, but that doesn't change the fact that had he been on the Michigan ballot he would have received a lot of popular votes. How many?
Try 238,168. That's the number of Michiganders who voted for "uncommitted." Were they possibly genuinely abstaining? Maybe a few hundred of them at most. The rest were clearly Obama supporters who launched a grass-roots campaign. Everyone in Michigan knew on January 15 that a vote for "uncommitted" was a vote for Obama.
That means that by a generous definition of popular votes (and remember, Clinton wants to enfranchise as many people as possible in her count), Obama leads by about 166,000 votes.
With a big win in Puerto Rico, Clinton could possibly erase that margin (plus several thousand more that Obama is expected to net in Montana and South Dakota). She could then proclaim that with the help of Puerto Rican voters who cannot vote in a general election, she is the popular vote winner.
The shorthand many Clinton supporters are already taking into the summer is that she won the popular vote but had the nomination "taken away" (as Joy Behar said on "The View") by a man.
What a helpful message for uniting the Democratic Party.
If the Obama people have any sense, they will demand in their negotiations with the Clintonites that Hillary cease and desist in her specious claim to have won the most popular votes.
Given that more than 35 million voters took part in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, the math games on both sides look awfully silly. Everyone should agree to call it a tie.

 
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[vinnomot] What to read from this following news item?

What to read from this following news item?

The title of the news says "Indian ship breakers lose business to Bangladesh". If you ask Saifur Rahman type policy-maker (i.e. pre-1/11 policy-makers), you will find a happy face boosting success. They just look at the headline and be happy or sorry about the present. Those policy-makers actually deserved place in the manufacturing alleys of the EPZs, where no brain work is needed. However, a post-1/11 policy maker should be very worried about the future of our ship breaking industry, after reading the last two lines of the news item which reads "However, Indian ship breakers hope the tide will turn in 2010, when the International Maritime Organization comes with guidelines on ship breaking norms. Many Bangladeshi ship breaking yards will have to close down over pollution and labor issues". They should be worried, ideally that is.


If you take this news item in its face value, what needs to be done?

First of all, government and shipbreakers' association should employ a team of experts (consisting of engineers, environmentalists, labor-law specialists, maritime specialist, manufacturing consultant and above all, members from the finance industry) to assess the situation. The year 2010 is not very far away.

It should be noted that most of our local steel mills use these scrap steels. If proper processes are used, these steel is high-quality. The value chain is long - meaning it creates more employment than importing ore-based steel mills.

What Tata is proposing to build - that will be importing ore-based steels. If Tata's still makes economic sense, then go ahead and let it invest. One may ask whether we are going to lose our potential in ship breaking industry and then start importing ore from India through Tata? That would mean exporting thousands of job to India, scrapping our business relationships  with many  developed countries (who sells ships to scrappers) and instead becoming dependent on India's steel input. Moreover, the recycling through shipbreaking should be eligible for environmental credit. We don't know whether anyone from this industry has examined the possibility of selling environmental credits in European Regulatory Markets - funds channeled from those efforts can then be used to increase the margin from this industry as well as better working conditions for the workers.

Historically, India has shown its incapability of being a responsible player when it comes to dealing with Bangladesh. The latest example was the promise of rice export and later retracting from it, or at least, trying to do that. Now, we do not blame India, per se, for that. They have too many empty plates among themselves - why should we expect them to behave responsibly? Tata, Mittal or Ambani's might be world richest - however, India as a nation is much weaker than the world thinks.
 
Bangladesh should play its role as a responsible player and not to expect much from its giant, weak neighbour. There are few strategic things that our policy makers has to be clear about when it comes to dealing with India.

In short, India is a hungry man (just like Africa) - but it is smarter than Africa. It pretends to be a shining man - though it feels the hunger in every move that it makes. So, when it comes to behave responsibly (which translates to behaving generously, in many cases), India can hardly afford that. So, instead of blaming India in every step of the way, its time for us to be more strategically aware of the best possible option and avoid being dependent on India where we can.
 
Our policy makers have to make sure that the critical points of the supply chain of our overall economy should not depend on the India's will - at least not in the short to medium term. The spirit of SAARC or regional will not have much meaning as long as the poverty in the region is not dealt head-on. Bringing together seven hungry man might give some strategic advantage - however, chances are that will create more problem than solution. Our history is a good example of that. So the policy should be not to depend on it.
 
Or even if our paths cross, if it makes economic and political sense to deal with them, it is better to have redundancy options open for those parts of the supply chain where India has control. Because, as long as India has 50-times more hungry people than Bangladesh has, we have no moral authority to blame them, do we? Rather we should work hard to benefit from the proximity of the big market as well as (at some point in future) help the giant neighbor - just like Japan/Korea often helps China when the need. We can develop much faster than they can - if we really want. Singapore developed faster than Malaysia, Japan/Korea developed much faster than China, UAE is developing much faster than Saudis, why can't we replicate that? And most importantly, our development will not come at the cost of India's development. Rather we will be able to help the many citizens of India and Myanmar - as soon as we get into the trajectory. All it needs a group of dedicated politicians who has the competence and will to do that.

Some of you will accuse by saying this - if that is the case, then, why does India do matobbori? How do you explain the big-brotherly behaviour? Our answer to that would be - they are big. But that does not necessarily mean that its natural. Does China behave the same way to Korea or Japan? Why not? If you can figure that out, you will figure out the same here too.
 
Coming back to our topic today, shipbreaking and shipbuilding are two sister industries which needs proper policy support. A timely focus on this will help reap benefits down the road. Both of these industries are related to the steel industry and our construction sector, a very important component, contributor and indicator of national development. "However, Indian ship breakers hope the tide will turn in 2010, when the International Maritime Organization comes with guidelines on ship breaking norms. Many Bangladeshi ship breaking yards will have to close down over pollution and labor issues" - these words should be taken seriously and make a plan that is win-win for all the stakeholders.
 
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Indian ship breakers lose business to Bangladesh

BS reported that, with Bangladeshi ship breakers offering around 23% more for steel scrap than India, Indian ship breakers are in trouble and some of them may have to close shop. Bangladeshi companies are offering INR 29,600 per tonne for scrap steel compared with INR 24,000 per tonne that the Indian players are paying.

Bangladesh has emerged as a major ship breaking destination in South Asia with an average of 150 vessels to 200 vessels being scrapped there every year. Pakistan, on its part, is competing with India by scrapping an average of 70 vessels to 90 vessels in a year as compared with India's 120 vessels.

Both India and Pakistan generate around 4,000 tonnes of scrap steel per vessel, much less than Bangladesh, which generates 12,000-15,000 tonnes of scrap steel per vessel. Bangladesh can offer higher prices as most steel manufactured there has scrap as the basic raw material.

Mr Nikhil Gupta joint secretary of Ship Recycling Industries Association of India said that "One reason why Bangladesh is offering more is because it does not have any other major source for making steel. For that, it has kept the duties low. Because of this, Bangladesh has managed to attract high-tonnage vessels. Neglected vessels with lesser tonnage make their way to yards in India or Pakistan. Now with Pakistan offering a higher price, it is in a better position to attract more vessels."

Mr Gupta said that their business is going through a lean phase. Between 1995 and 2001, the industry employed over 45,000 people per annum, which has now come down to 6,000.

Industry experts said that in the last 5 years, because of the boom in the shipping industry, a number of old vessels have been overstretched. Due to global economic slowdown, freight rates are correcting and with global steel prices ruling higher, shipping companies will be able to command more for their scrap vessels. However, Indian ship breakers hope the tide will turn in 2010, when the International Maritime Organization comes with guidelines on ship breaking norms. Many Bangladeshi ship breaking yards will have to close down over pollution and labor issues.

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