New Theme Park Opens In Bangladesh
2 April 2002 - 1:00pm
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, gets a multiple-million dollar theme park.
"A multi-million dollar theme park has opened on a 50-acre site near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, offering roller coaster rides, bumper cars and water sports to the general public...Critics argue the park itself is incongruous in a country where around half the population of 130m lives below the poverty line."
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Bangladesh opens lavish theme park
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BBC News, October 7, 2005
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