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Shamsuddin Illius

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Bangladesh, Chittagong
As seen in: The Business Standard, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo Singapore, Yahoo Finance Singapore, International Business Times (U.S.), The Scotsman, Barron's, ABS-CBN News, Scroll.in, Forbes India and
Covers:  business, corruption, Rohingya refugees, migration, climate change, and environmental issues.
Award-winning journalist. Covering Environment, Climate change, Biodiversity & Migration. Fellow @ World Press Institute, Hong Kong Baptist University, EJN

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Shamsuddin Illius is a Chittagong in Bangladesh-based investigative journalist specializing in business, corruption, Rohingya refugees, migration, climate change, and environmental issues.

Illius, the former Chittagong Bureau Chief at The Independent, has been working as Chittagong Bureau Chief at The Business Standard.
He also writes for different international media. The Earth Journalism Network story grantee is a fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Journalism Fellowship 2018, Alum…

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‘A Paper Dream’: COP30 stalls as vulnerable nations warn of broken climate finance promises

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By Shamsuddin Illius
| The Climate Watch
COP30 entered its second week on Monday mired in deadlock, with negotiations on climate finance, adaptation, technology transfer, gender equality and just transition showing little movement. Bangladesh and other vulnerable nations warned that without concrete support, global ambition risks remaining “a paper dream” while climate disasters intensify.
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Finance Deadlock, Justice Demands: COP30 boils over in Belém

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By Shamsuddin Illius
| The Climate Watch
Heated debates marked the third day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, as delegates clashed over climate finance, adaptation needs and the contentious Just Transition agenda. While some progress was reported on Wednesday and Thursday, deep divides between developed and developing nations continued to overshadow the negotiations. In the heated debate Bangladesh reiterated its leadership role in pushing for equity and justice in global climate diplomacy.
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DIGITAL DREAMS, PARCHED REALITY: The hidden cost of Bangladesh's data industry gold rush

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By Shamsuddin Illius
| The Climate Watch
On the outskirts of Gazipur, north of Dhaka, bulldozers roar across the sprawling landscape of the Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park – Bangladesh’s flagship technology zone. Steel and concrete frames towered over the clay; cables snaked through trenches; and the air hummed with the promise of digital data sovereignty. Local and foreign firms, building data centers and computing power to enable artificial intelligence (AI), rising rapidly across the park.
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