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KUALA LUMPUR: As a board member of his alma mater, a Chinese vernacular school, lawyer Wong Kong Fatt knows how difficult it is to raise funds for new buildings, halls and classrooms.
Fresh protests are roiling Bangladesh, just weeks after a deadly government crackdown dispersed a student movement that began as demonstrations over a preferential quota system for public-sector jobs and widened to express deeper discontent.
Crowds hit the streets in large numbers as student leaders press the government for more concessions.
Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem last month that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina’s 15-year tenure.
To become a bird, pull an oversize T-shirt over your arms and torso. Hide your legs. Let your hands stick out like claws and your empty sleeves flap like wings.
In 1996, when Peter Hessler taught at a small college in Sichuan Province, 90 percent of his students came from villages. Mr. Hessler, 5 feet 9 inches, towered over them by about half a head. They often had just one outfit to wear: a blue suit jacket, or maybe a knockoff Chicago Bulls jersey. One student told him decades later that he could afford only one meal a day.
We speak to Bangladeshi youth at the forefront of a movement they say aims to restore trust and hope in the country’s future.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More protests were taking place in Bangladesh on Friday against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government to demand justice for more than 200 people killed in last month’s violent demonstrations despite reforms announced in the job quota system which prompted weeks of protests.