1.   Abdul Gaffar, whose turn to be repatriated had come, hid from Bangladeshi camp officials.

2.   Bangladeshi officials accused a group of militant refugees, who oppose a planned repatriation to Burma, of deliberately starting the blaze.

3.   Bangladeshi border guards returned fire, triggering more clashes in which two Bangladeshi villagers and a border guard were killed, the Bangladeshi official said.

4.   Bangladeshi officials admitted a four-member EC team that visited the country in June found Bangladeshi shrimps contaminated with bacteria.

5.   Bangladeshi officials have not been able to confirm any link between the previously unknown Harkutul Jehad and the Taliban.

6.   Burmese border guards clashed with Muslim rebels along its frontier with Bangladesh, leaving two rebels and one troop dead, Bangladeshi officials said Monday.

7.   Halliburton provided talking points to U.S. diplomats for meetings with Bangladeshi officials.

8.   Indian border guards shot and killed four Bangladeshi farmers plowing a rice field along the northern frontier Thursday, a Bangladeshi official said.

9.   The three are identified by Bangladeshi officials as Sharful Hussein, A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed and Rashed Choudhury.

10.   French Ambassador Michel Lummaux decorated Zaman with the insignia at a function in Dhaka Wednesday attended by high-ranking Bangladeshi officials and diplomats.