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MISCELLANEOUS<br />
tHURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>31</strong>, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />
11<br />
United Arab Emirates Naval Forces Commander Rear Admiral Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Bin<br />
Mohammad Al Nahyan on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Bangladeshi Navy Chief of Staff Vice<br />
Admiral Abu Mozaffar Mohiuddin Mohammad Aurangzeb Chowdhury at Bangladeshi Navy's<br />
headquarters in Banani, Dhaka on Wednesday.<br />
Photo: ISPR<br />
China-US row over tech giant Huawei<br />
overshadows trade talks<br />
U.S. criminal charges against Chinese<br />
electronics giant Huawei have sparked<br />
a fresh round of trans-Pacific<br />
recriminations, with Beijing<br />
demanding Tuesday that Washington<br />
back off what it called an<br />
"unreasonable crackdown" on the<br />
maker of smartphones and telecom<br />
gear, reports UNB.<br />
China's foreign ministry said it<br />
would defend the "lawful rights and<br />
interests of Chinese companies" but<br />
gave no details. Huawei is the No. 2<br />
smartphone maker and an essential<br />
player in global communications<br />
networks.<br />
A day earlier, U.S. prosecutors<br />
criminally charged Huawei and<br />
several of its officials for allegedly<br />
stealing technology secrets and<br />
violating Iran sanctions. That followed<br />
the detention in Canada of the Huawei<br />
founder's daughter - a top company<br />
official who was named in one of the<br />
U.S. indictments, and who is now<br />
awaiting possible extradition to the<br />
U.S. Huawei has denied wrongdoing.<br />
All that has further complicated<br />
U.S.-China relations amid attempts to<br />
defuse a trade war instigated by<br />
President Donald Trump and clashes<br />
over alleged Chinese theft of trade<br />
secrets and other intellectual property<br />
from U.S. firms. A new round of trade<br />
talks are planned for Wednesday in<br />
Washington.<br />
The nearly two dozen charges<br />
unsealed Monday by the Justice<br />
Department accuse Huawei of trying<br />
to spirit a robot arm and other<br />
technology out of a T-Mobile<br />
Amar Ekushey book<br />
fair begins Feb 1<br />
DHAKA : The month-long<br />
Amar Ekushey book fair is<br />
set to begin on Bangla<br />
Academy and its adjoining<br />
Suhrawardy Udyan<br />
premises on February 1.<br />
"Prime Minister Sheikh<br />
Hasina is expected to<br />
inaugurate the fair on<br />
Bangla Academy premises,"<br />
Dr Jalal Ahmed, director of<br />
Bangla Academy and<br />
member secretary of<br />
Ekushey Book Fair<br />
Committee, told BSS .<br />
He said all the<br />
preparations regarding the<br />
fair are going on in full swing<br />
as only a day is left for the<br />
fair.<br />
"This year's theme "Bijoy<br />
1952-71: New Phase" will<br />
inspire the new generation<br />
with the spirit of Liberation<br />
War, he added.<br />
Meanwhile, Bangle<br />
academy will hold a press<br />
conference at 11:30 am<br />
tomorrow.<br />
Director General of Bangla<br />
Academy Habibullah Siraji,<br />
Poet Shankhar Ghosh,<br />
Misrian Writer Mohsin-Al-<br />
Harisi and Cultural Affairs<br />
Ministry's high officials will<br />
attend the press conference.<br />
The government has<br />
allocated 750 units under 24<br />
pavilions for publication<br />
houses.<br />
Highlighting security<br />
measures, he said<br />
authorities concerned are<br />
taking necessary<br />
preparations to ensure<br />
safety for visitors.<br />
smartphone testing lab. They also<br />
allege that Huawei, two subsidiaries<br />
and a top executive misled banks<br />
about the company's business and<br />
violating U.S. sanctions.<br />
The allegations mark a new phase in<br />
the dispute between the two countries<br />
over global technological dominance.<br />
The U.S. has reportedly waged a<br />
campaign to discourage other nations<br />
from using Huawei<br />
telecommunications equipment for<br />
next-generation "5G" wireless<br />
networks, based on concerns that the<br />
Huawei gear might compromise<br />
national security. U.S. intelligence<br />
chiefs who briefed Congress on<br />
worldwide threats Tuesday sounded<br />
the alarm about China's efforts to gain<br />
an edge over the United States.<br />
"China's pursuit of intellectual<br />
property, sensitive research and<br />
development plans ... remain a<br />
significant threat to the United States<br />
government and the private sector,"<br />
Director of National Intelligence<br />
Daniel Coats told the Senate<br />
Intelligence Committee.<br />
"While we were sleeping in the last<br />
decade and a half, China had a<br />
remarkable rise in capabilities that are<br />
stunning," Coats said. "A lot of that<br />
was achieved - a significant amount<br />
was achieved by stealing information<br />
from our companies."<br />
On Tuesday, Australia's TPG<br />
Telecom said it abandoned plans to<br />
build what would have been the<br />
country's fourth mobile network<br />
because of a government ban on<br />
Huawei over security concerns. Last<br />
Directly contradicting President Donald<br />
Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies told<br />
Congress on Tuesday that North Korea is<br />
unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal,<br />
that the Islamic State group remains a<br />
threat and that the Iran nuclear deal is<br />
working. The chiefs made no mention of a<br />
crisis at the U.S.-Mexican border for<br />
which Trump has considered declaring a<br />
national emergency, reports UNB.<br />
Their analysis stands in sharp contrast<br />
to Trump's almost singular focus on<br />
security gaps at the border as the biggest<br />
threat facing the United States.<br />
Top security officials including FBI<br />
Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director<br />
Gina Haspel and Director of National<br />
Intelligence Dan Coats presented an<br />
update to the Senate intelligence<br />
committee on Tuesday on their annual<br />
assessment of global threats. They<br />
warned of an increasingly diverse range of<br />
security dangers around the globe, from<br />
North Korean nuclear weapons to<br />
Chinese cyberespionage to Russian<br />
campaigns to undermine Western<br />
democracies.<br />
Coats said intelligence information does<br />
not support the idea that North Korean<br />
leader Kim Jong Un will eliminate his<br />
nuclear weapons and the capacity for<br />
building more - a notion that is the basis<br />
of the U.S. negotiating strategy.<br />
"We currently assess that North Korea<br />
will seek to retain its WMD (weapons of<br />
mass destruction) capabilities and is<br />
unlikely to completely give up its nuclear<br />
weapons and production capability<br />
because its leaders ultimately view<br />
nuclear weapons as critical to regime<br />
survival," Coats told the committee.<br />
Coats did note that North Korean leader<br />
Kim Jong Un has expressed support for<br />
week Vodafone, one of the world's<br />
biggest mobile phone companies, said<br />
it would stop using Huawei gear in its<br />
core networks.<br />
China's foreign ministry said it<br />
would defend the "lawful rights and<br />
interests of Chinese companies" but<br />
gave no details. Huawei is the No. 2<br />
smartphone maker and an essential<br />
player in global communications<br />
networks.<br />
A day earlier, U.S. prosecutors<br />
criminally charged Huawei and<br />
several of its officials for allegedly<br />
stealing technology secrets and<br />
violating Iran sanctions. That followed<br />
the detention in Canada of the Huawei<br />
founder's daughter - a top company<br />
official who was named in one of the<br />
U.S. indictments, and who is now<br />
awaiting possible extradition to the<br />
U.S. Huawei has denied wrongdoing.<br />
All that has further complicated<br />
U.S.-China relations amid attempts to<br />
defuse a trade war instigated by<br />
President Donald Trump and clashes<br />
over alleged Chinese theft of trade<br />
secrets and other intellectual property<br />
from U.S. firms. A new round of trade<br />
talks are planned for Wednesday in<br />
Washington.<br />
The nearly two dozen charges<br />
unsealed Monday by the Justice<br />
Department accuse Huawei of trying<br />
to spirit a robot arm and other<br />
technology out of a T-Mobile<br />
smartphone testing lab. They also<br />
allege that Huawei, two subsidiaries<br />
and a top executive misled banks<br />
about the company's business and<br />
violating U.S. sanctions.<br />
US intel heads list North Korea,<br />
not border, as threat to US<br />
ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear<br />
weapons and over the past year has not<br />
test-fired a nuclear-capable missile or<br />
conducted a nuclear test.<br />
The "Worldwide Threat Assessment"<br />
report on which Coats based his<br />
testimony said U.S. intelligence continues<br />
to "observe activity inconsistent with" full<br />
nuclear disarmament by the North. "In<br />
addition, North Korea has for years<br />
underscored its commitment to nuclear<br />
arms, including through an order in 2<strong>01</strong>8<br />
to mass-produce weapons and an earlier<br />
law - and constitutional change -<br />
affirming the country's nuclear status," it<br />
said.<br />
Directly contradicting President Donald<br />
Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies told<br />
Congress on Tuesday that North Korea is<br />
unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal,<br />
that the Islamic State group remains a<br />
threat and that the Iran nuclear deal is<br />
working. The chiefs made no mention of a<br />
crisis at the U.S.-Mexican border for<br />
which Trump has considered declaring a<br />
national emergency, reports UNB.<br />
Their analysis stands in sharp contrast<br />
to Trump's almost singular focus on<br />
security gaps at the border as the biggest<br />
threat facing the United States.<br />
Top security officials including FBI<br />
Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director<br />
Gina Haspel and Director of National<br />
Intelligence Dan Coats presented an<br />
update to the Senate intelligence<br />
committee on Tuesday on their annual<br />
assessment of global threats. They<br />
warned of an increasingly diverse range of<br />
security dangers around the globe, from<br />
North Korean nuclear weapons to<br />
Chinese cyberespionage to Russian<br />
campaigns to undermine Western<br />
democracies.<br />
UAE Navy<br />
commander calls<br />
on Bangladesh<br />
Navy chief<br />
United Arab Emirates<br />
Naval Forces Commander<br />
Rear Admiral Sheikh Saeed<br />
Bin Hamdan Bin<br />
Mohammad Al Nahyan has<br />
paid a courtesy call on<br />
Bangladeshi Navy Chief of<br />
Staff Vice Admiral Abu<br />
Mozaffar Mohiuddin<br />
Mohammad Aurangzeb<br />
Chowdhury, an ISPR press<br />
release said.<br />
Al Nahyan was greeted by<br />
a well-equipped Navy party<br />
and a guard of honour<br />
when he went to meet<br />
Aurangzeb Chowdhury at<br />
the navy headquarters in<br />
Dhaka's Banani on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
During the courtesy call,<br />
the navy chiefs of the two<br />
countries exchanged<br />
greetings. Aurangzeb<br />
Chowdhury also thanked Al<br />
Nahyan for his visit to<br />
Bangladesh.<br />
He emphasized the<br />
importance<br />
of<br />
strengthening the friendly<br />
relations between the two<br />
countries.<br />
The Navy chief also<br />
mentioned the two<br />
countries should undertake<br />
joint training programs that<br />
strengthen maritime<br />
research and improve on<br />
the countries' friendly<br />
relations and professional<br />
skills.<br />
During the visit,<br />
Mohammad Al Nahyan<br />
met Prime Minister Sheikh<br />
Hasina, and the Army and<br />
Air Force chiefs.<br />
Among others, the<br />
Defence Attaché of Saudi<br />
Arabia, Bangladesh's<br />
Defence Attaché in Saudi<br />
Arabia, PSOs of Naval<br />
Headquarters, and highlevel<br />
military officials were<br />
present at the meeting.<br />
GD-174/19 (11 x 4)<br />
Federal investigators win access<br />
to limo in deadly crash<br />
Federal investigators will finally be able to<br />
examine the stretch limousine in an October<br />
crash that killed 20 people, ending an<br />
increasingly testy impasse with local<br />
prosecutors over who has priority to probe<br />
the nation's deadliest transportation<br />
disaster in nearly a decade, reports UNB.<br />
Under the deal reached Tuesday in<br />
Schoharie County court, prosecutors<br />
bringing charges against the limo company's<br />
operator will be able to remove auto parts<br />
potentially crucial to the criminal<br />
investigation before National<br />
Transportation Safety Board inspectors<br />
begin a hands-on inspection within the next<br />
two weeks.<br />
The modified 20<strong>01</strong> Ford Excursion blew<br />
through a stop sign at a T-intersection on<br />
Oct. 6 in rural Schoharie and crashed beside<br />
a country store, killing the driver, 17<br />
passengers on a birthday outing and two<br />
pedestrians. The damaged vehicle has sat for<br />
months beneath a tent behind state police<br />
headquarters outside Albany.<br />
"All I'm interested in is making sure<br />
everyone is able to do what they're charged<br />
with doing," Schoharie County Judge<br />
George Bartlett said during the hearing.<br />
NTSB lawyers had argued that federal<br />
inspectors were prevented from getting<br />
within 15 feet of the crashed limo, and that<br />
their inability to make a detailed inspection<br />
unnecessarily delayed potentially crucial<br />
safety recommendations that could be<br />
applied to limos nationwide.<br />
Schoharie County District Attorney Susan<br />
Mallery argued that criminal trials take<br />
precedence and that her office dictates<br />
access to all evidence.<br />
Under the deal, the NTSB can visually<br />
inspect the limousine as early as Tuesday<br />
and take photographs. After that, police<br />
experts will be clear to remove the limo's<br />
transmission and torque converter as part of<br />
the criminal investigation. The NTSB can<br />
then proceed with a hands-on inspection,<br />
which is expected to begin within the next<br />
two weeks.<br />
NTSB investigators will be able to perform<br />
their entire post-accident protocol "except<br />
take brake fluid, because there is an<br />
insufficient amount available," according to<br />
the agreement read in court after lawyers for<br />
the prosecution, state police, the defense<br />
and NTSB met privately.<br />
Instead, state police will send a report on<br />
the brake fluid testing to the NTSB<br />
investigators, "who have agreed not to make<br />
it public until completion of the criminal<br />
case," according to the agreement.<br />
NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss did not have<br />
an estimate on when the board would<br />
release those findings, stressing that the<br />
agreement applies only to brake fluid<br />
testing.<br />
Agency inspectors will be able to examine<br />
components removed from the limo, along<br />
with defense experts, "later in the criminal<br />
process," the agreement said.<br />
Federal investigators will finally be able to<br />
examine the stretch limousine in an October<br />
crash that killed 20 people, ending an<br />
increasingly testy impasse with local<br />
prosecutors over who has priority to probe<br />
the nation's deadliest transportation<br />
disaster in nearly a decade, reports UNB.<br />
Under the deal reached Tuesday in<br />
Schoharie County court, prosecutors<br />
bringing charges against the limo company's<br />
operator will be able to remove auto parts<br />
potentially crucial to the criminal<br />
investigation before National<br />
Transportation Safety Board inspectors<br />
begin a hands-on inspection within the next<br />
two weeks.<br />
The modified 20<strong>01</strong> Ford Excursion blew<br />
through a stop sign at a T-intersection on<br />
Oct. 6 in rural Schoharie and crashed beside<br />
a country store, killing the driver, 17<br />
passengers on a birthday outing and two<br />
pedestrians. The damaged vehicle has sat for<br />
months beneath a tent behind state police<br />
headquarters outside Albany.<br />
"All I'm interested in is making sure<br />
everyone is able to do what they're charged<br />
with doing," Schoharie County Judge<br />
George Bartlett said during the hearing.<br />
NTSB lawyers had argued that federal<br />
inspectors were prevented from getting<br />
within 15 feet of the crashed limo, and that<br />
their inability to make a detailed inspection<br />
unnecessarily delayed potentially crucial<br />
safety recommendations that could be<br />
applied to limos nationwide.<br />
Schoharie County District Attorney Susan<br />
Mallery argued that criminal trials take<br />
precedence and that her office dictates<br />
access to all evidence.