Write to the editor @newagebd.com Main Page « Front Page « Metro « Business « International « Sports « National « Editorial « Op-Ed « Home « Timeout « Letters « Others Archive « Launch Supplement «   July 15-21, 2005   On the cover High stakes gamble A radical overhaul of the secondary education system is set to hit schools across the country starting next year. Under the new School-Based Assessment system that the government announced this week, teachers’ powers over students and their academic performance are being expanded considerably. Sea, sand and a curse! Cox’s Bazar has changed dramatically in the last ten years especially in the sector of hotels, accommodation and beach management. However, entertainment is still a neglected issue, playing soccer on the beach is prohibited for some unknown reason and people look at tourists and see crisp bank notes. Towheed Feroze experiences what it feels like to be seen as a wad of crisp bank notes, plunges into the sea, survives through bad luck and still says Cox’s Bazar is fatafati While they have obfuscated 10 million people have died The rubric images introducing each of the eight obfuscations, illustrate the contradictions between the prepped photo-opportunities for each of the individual G-8 leaders and the suppressed, ‘ethically’ anonymised images representing the billions of very poor people infected by tuberculosis. I came, I saw... Baily Road In the heart of the city is Baily Road – a place that zealously blends theatre, fast food, youth and fashion. Asifur Rahman Khan takes a walk down the famed road where life never ceases to thrive, looks at the different angels of the place and is struck by the Baily Road bug The club of the ‘riches to rags’ You have heard of people metamorphosing from obscurity to ‘somebody’, and people labeling them behind their back as ‘rags to riches’, but have you heard much about those few, who are pointed at, also behind their back, as ‘riches to rags’? I am sure not many of you have come across some of these fantastic research specimens who go happily about in society, blissfully broke and notoriously nostalgic. Also A president, a defeat, new beginnings Travelling back to 1969 Le Saigon: Food from Vietnam Life, the positive way   COPYRIGHT © NEW AGE 2005 Mailing address Holiday Building, 30, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. Phone 880-2-8114145, 8118567, 8113297 Fax 880-2-8112247 Email xtra@newagebd.com Web Designer Zahirul Islam Mamoon