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Zarif Faiaz

Zarif Faiaz is a journalist, communications specialist, and a tech-policy researcher based out of Dhaka. He is the editor of the Tech & Startup section at The Daily Star and a fellow at the Tech Global Institute. Reach him at faiaz@thedailystar.net.

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Views / The legacy Tim Cook leaves behind

2 September 2026
Tim Cook leaves behind a $4.6tn corporate machine, an unrivalled consumer ecosystem and a record of extraordinary political dexterity.
2 September 2026
future ready skills for Bangladesh youth

We need to prioritise future-ready skills over freelancing

28 August 2026
The government wants to spend Tk 683 crore training more than 50,000 young people to become freelancers.
28 August 2026
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Views / Bangladesh should learn from China’s technological rise, but not copy it

21 July 2026
We’ve all heard the phrase—“China is not living in the future. It is the future.” In many ways, it is a literal truth. The influx of robot taxis, the automation craze, and the skyscrapers in Shanghai racing each other to the clouds certainly point that way. For many economies in the Global South, it is also a blueprint. But the most tempting lesson to draw from China’s technological miracle is also the most misleading: build a few futuristic industrial parks, announce an artificial intelligence strategy, import advanced equipment and wait for transformation to follow.
21 July 2026
how to improve Dhaka city infrastructure

To build like Shanghai, start with Dhaka's east

12 July 2026
We live it every day, and Dhaka’s unliveability is simply undeniable.
12 July 2026
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Un-erasable: This open-access digital archive is preserving evidence of war from Gaza

10 July 2026
ArchiveGenocide brings together tens of thousands of videos and photographs, as researchers race to protect potentially important material from deletion, censorship and digital decay
10 July 2026
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Palestinians are creating a digital archive to safeguard a history under threat

10 July 2026
Hundreds of thousands of photographs, letters and personal records are being preserved across multiple countries as Gaza’s cultural institutions face widespread destruction.
10 July 2026
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Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire, and his empire of ashes

15 June 2026
This week, for the first time in recorded history, a single human being's net worth crossed the trillion-dollar threshold. And yet, look past the headline figure, and the empire generating it looks less like a triumphant monument and more like a building site after a fire alarm. Several, actually.
15 June 2026
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Asus bets on AI PCs as Bangladesh market enters ‘high growth’ phase

5 May 2026
Peter Chang, General Manager, Asia Pacific, Consumer Business at Asus, speaks to The Daily Star about the company’s latest AI PC lineup, Bangladesh’s growth potential, component price pressures, and why he believes AI PCs are more than a marketing trend.
5 May 2026
places in common

Underrated places in common destinations

Over the past couple of years, Bangladeshis have become more and more inclined towards travelling.
9 January 2020
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Take a step back in time

There are places in this world that will wow you with their old-time charms and carefully preserved heritage—cities that are hundreds of years old and still look the same, ruins of kingdoms lost forever in the jungle and waiting to be rediscovered,
2 January 2020
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Mobile photography tips to up your travel photography game

In the age of Instagram influencers, every other person with a smartphone is a photographer. Smartphones these days are packed with so many top-notch photographer-friendly features that they are replacing DSLRs for many, especially when it comes to travel photography, where many prefer the portability of a smartphone.
26 December 2019
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4 tips for online communication

Our work environments are changing fast. Most of our business communications now take place online and much of these communications are now moving to our inboxes rather than e-mails.
26 December 2019
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Darjeeling - winter wonderland, close to home

Welcome to Darjeeling - the majestic Kangchenjunga in the backdrop of a bustling small town, the echoing sound of the old steam engine train running through its streets, the captivating smell of momos and warm tea.
19 December 2019
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Embracing differences through travelling

Some travel to escape the drabness of routine mediocrities. For some, it’s a call that can hardly be ignored. Even before the age of discovery, travelers like Faxian and Ibn Battuta travelled around the world with a single goal - to learn. No matter what category we fall under as a traveller, adventure lover or leisure seeker, we all agree that to travel is to discover.
12 December 2019
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Traveller’s notebook: in the Land of the Blue Dragon

Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is not the first destination that comes to an average Bangladeshi traveller’s mind when thinking of getting out on exploring a new place.
18 June 2018
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Traveller’s notebook: Kuala Lumpur

We’re a generation of wanderers and we have long been a species of wanderers. What ties us to our 9–5 routine is not natural. We want to explore, even if we don’t realise it, each one of us, to our very core, are explorers.
21 March 2018
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