Archive for June, 2008

Full Moon Beach Parties at Cox’s Bazaar

June 25, 2008 10:58 am

~story by Mikey Leung~

Full Moon Beach Parties in Bangladesh? Just last year, most travellers wouldn’t have dreamed of it.

But the reality is that they are now a monthly occurrence, drawing anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred people to the beachside at Cox’s Bazaar every month.

Mermaid Cafe LogoThe parties are an initiative of Alien Shohagh and Samiha Alam Bristy–the co-owning couple who have created Mermaid Cafe—a place that offers something quite different from the mass tourism experience offered by the rest of the venues at Cox’s.

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Responsible Business Bangladesh steps up its game

June 13, 2008 4:35 pm

rooms at Chez FloRBBA, or “Responsible Business Bangladesh,” is a new initiative of Florence Calvet, a French national who has an excellent sense of duty to the people she employs and about the kind of business she wants to create.

In her own words:

What is behind the idea of RBBA and Chez Flo. It’s what I call Responsible Business or Ethic Business. It’s a way to help people from Bangladesh from inside meaning that I am helping them to develop business, generate incomes and then use this money to help more people.

Florence has started the business with a new guesthouse named Chez Flo, located in Uttara, a northern suburb of Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka. Currently, there are two well-decorated rooms and a series of masterfully prepared deserts, cakes and drinks on offer, all created by Chez Flo’s staff under Florence’s guidance.

It’s an encouraging development to see new initiatives like Ms. Calvet’s—certainly we hope to visit the cafe the next time we’re in Uttara!

Her address:
Road 2, House 4
Uttara Sector 4
Dhaka, BANGLADESH
tel: +880 1732 284 946
http://www.chezflobangladesh.com/