Body recovered from Hatirjheel lake: victim identified as student of Malaysian university Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A body recovered on January 14 from Hatirjheel lake and subsequently buried unclaimed was primarily identified as Sadman Sakib Rafi, a student of Malaysia s Asia Pacific University who remained missing since January 13.
His mother Monowara Hossain identified him from his clothes and photographs police took after recovering the body from the lake, said Sub-inspector of Hatirjheel Police Station Harun-or-Rashid.
After autopsy at Dhaka Medical College, the body was kept at the mortuary for a month and was buried unclaimed, he said.
Sadman s mother earlier filed a missing diary (GD) with Bhatara Police Station after the 23-year-old left his home in the capital s Bashundhara residential area on January 13 and did not return.
University student missing in capital Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
A 23-year-old Bangladeshi youth, also a student at Malaysia s Asia Pacific University (APU), has been missing for a week since he left his home in the capital s Bashundhara Residential area on January 13.
The missing person s name is Sadman Sakif aka Rafi.
Sadman s mother filed a general diary (GD) with Vatara Police Station in this regard.
According to the GD, Sadman left the house on the morning of January 13 without telling anyone. Since then he did not return home. The mobile number used by him is switched off.
Sadman s mother Monowara Hossain told reporters that her son returned to Dhaka from Malaysia in September 2019. After that he could not return to Malaysia due to coronavirus situation.
Jan 15, 2021
Since the onset of winter, the rampaging coronavirus has seemed unstoppable. Yet, compared to the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, the number of COVID-19 victims is small. More than 50 million people died from the Spanish flu out of a world population of about 2 billion at that time that’s 2.5% of the total. In contrast, the current world population is about 8 billion. The percentage of deaths is only 0.02%. The gap between the two figures is immense.
Why this gap? The World Health Organization’s legally binding International Health Regulations, revised in 2005, state that in the event of a potential pandemic event, member countries must assess the risk to public health and then notify the WHO within 24 hours. Upon receipt of the information, an emergency committee session at the WHO will deliberate the matter and then provide the necessary information to member countries. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the organization on March 11.
Sixteen graduate from APU | 23 December 2020
Sixteen students who have successfully completed study programmes with the Asia Pacific University (APU) in Malaysia yesterday graduated from the institution via a virtual graduation ceremony.
In the presence of relatives and loved ones, eleven graduands followed the institution’s first ever online graduation ceremony from the Central Bank of Seychelles’ (CBS) boardroom, with employees of the Agency for National Human Resource Development (ANHRD) also present.
The ceremony unfolded much like conventional graduation ceremonies, comprising addresses by APU’s Vice-Chancellor Hari Nayarayan, chief executive of APU and the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) Dakut Parmjit Singh and Class of 2020 Valedictorian Lin Ming Ming.
Economics graduate Chong Yoong Fu returned to the family business in 2011 after a stint in the corporate world because the family had land and expertise that he could bank on, and he had a deep passion for property development.
Last year, the executive director of Winfar Group, which he founded in 2012, launched his first residential development, Serlesa Villas, in Serdang Heights.
At his family business Tulin Development Sdn Bhd, he had been involved in two commercial projects, Tulin 28, which was completed in October 2012, and Seri Gembira Avenue, which was handed over to purchasers in August 2014.
“These two projects were developed on land my grandparents owned in partnership with a relative, who has been in the construction line for over 30 years,” says Chong. “He was my mentor when I joined the property business at the end of 2011 after I left MMC Corp Bhd. While at MMC Corp, I had been partially involved in the two projects, keeping tabs on their progress.”