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Prek Takeo, Cambodia — Cambodia broke ground Monday on a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea, despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam.
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas and swelled into a movement demanding her ouster.
After a country applies when there is no rule book in place, the ISA has two years to finalise comprehensive rules. If that effort fails, mining could theoretically start free of regulation. The deadline for Nauru expired on July 9, 2023 but some argue that this is not a hard deadline. Moreover, the ISA council has emphasised that commercial mining should not begin until regulations are adopted.
They came prepared for violence. A day after about 100 people were killed in antigovernment protests, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, defying a curfew imposed by the government and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Crowds celebrated the resignation of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. There have been calls for her to step down ever since deadly protests over job quotas rocked the country in July.
The order for Zia’s release comes hours after her archrival Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled Bangladesh.