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Anwar Choudhury – British High Commissioner for Bangladesh between 2004 and 2008. He was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post. He is currently the Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. [111]
The research found that poverty rate is 46% of people of Bangladeshi background – compared with 16% for the white British in 2009–11. "Bangladeshi background are also more likely to have a limiting long-term illness or disability and to live in more crowded conditions," it noted. [148]
Former Channel S logo. Channel S (Bengali: চ্যানেল এস) is a UK-based, free-to-air television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. The channel was established on 16 December 2004 by Mahee Ferdous Jalil, a Bangladeshi businessman in London. [1]
The Bangladeshi media has a significant presence in the UK. Bangladeshi channels operate 5 TV channels and over 12 Bangla and English dailies and weeklies. They are doing a commendable job of raising awareness amongst the second and third generation British-Bangladeshis about Bangladesh and its culture. [4]
British foreign correspondent Simon Dring, who was previously the managing director of Ekushey Television, joined the channel as a staff member. [11] Jamuna Television was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. [12]
Most of these mixed-race individuals assimilated into British society through marriage with the local white population, thus there was never a permanent British Bengali community until Bangladeshi women began arriving in large numbers in the 1970s (after the independence of Bangladesh). From the 1970s onward, a majority of Bangladeshis chose to ...
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News24 was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. [6] The channel officially went on the air on 28 July 2016.