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11  october     17h26
Steve Jones obituary
Wendy Dickinson    My friend Steve Jones, who has died aged 77, had a working life devoted to humanitarian causes, with a particular focus on Bangladesh and India. In...
01  october     09h00
They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
Kaamil Ahmed, Yassin Abdumonab, Anna Leach, Prina Shah and Pablo Gutiérrez    Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the...
28  september     08h00
Exile has not broken young Rohingya people. But survival cost us more than our homes Ajas Khan
Ajas Khan    Nine years growing up in a tent robbed me of my freedom and childhood. But my generation is determined to fight for a better future - one that we...
18  september     09h00
I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh
Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka and Kaamil Ahmed    The country has been left in the dark as it endures power cuts caused by the Iran war and reliance on gas importsAt 1am, Halder’s alarm goes off and...
03  september     16h51
The film project combating child marriage in south Asia Letter
Guardian Staff    Visual storytelling is helping dismantle patriarchal norms that perpetuate child marriage in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, writes Ravi BaralRegarding...
02  september     10h00
Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest
Matthew Pearce    Bangladeshi complainants allege Rampal power station’s pollution and climate risks threaten the Sunderbans, a world heritage siteBarclays Bank is...
25  august     09h00
Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh
Sanjay Sujanthakumar    While Cavan and Quinn Sullivan star in MLS with the Philadelphia Union, brothers Ronan and Declan have connected with their South Asian heritageRonan...
06  august     14h30
India-Bangladesh relations hit new low over exiled PM’s speech to press in Delhi
Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka and Penelope MacRae in Delhi    Dhaka accuses India of giving platform to a convicted genocider’ by allowing Sheikh Hasina to address journalistsBangladesh has lashed out at India...
05  august     17h45
Exiled PM vows to return to Bangladesh despite execution threat
Penelope MacRae in Delhi    Sheikh Hasina plans a December comeback two years after being ousted in a bloody uprising led by studentsBangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh...
28  july     04h00
We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
Natasha May and Jonathan Watts    From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop - I...
26  july     19h03
Trisha Silvester obituary
Matthew Silvester    My mother, Trisha Silvester, who has died aged 79, was a single mother, businesswoman and long-serving charity chair, whose talent for connecting...
25  july     09h00
Family of missing footballer fear he is among 500 believed dead in Myanmar shipwrecks
Kaamil Ahmed    Siraz Ullah is one of hundreds of Rohingya refugees to take perilous sea journey to Malaysia to escape violence and persecutionThe fear was audible...
16  july     07h22
More than 500 feared dead after reports of two shipwrecks off Myanmar, UN says
Agence France-Presse    Vessels believed to have departed from Myanmar in late June, with mostly Muslim Rohingya minority onboardThe United Nations has said more than 500...
25  june     08h30
They’re defeating nations who occupied’: inside Bangladesh’s World Cup love affair with Argentina and Brazil
Melissa Hellmann    The nation of more than 170 million people - and its diaspora - have long supported the South American giantsWhen Shahidul Partha was growing up in...
09  june     09h00
I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh
Thaslima Begum in Barind    The arid Barind region was transformed by aquifer wells but now the water system is collapsing under the pressure of the climate crisis and decades...
28  may     11h40
Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice
Reuters in Dhaka    Rare albino buffalo spared due to security concerns over unusual level of public interest in 700kg animalA rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh...
01  may     09h00
Mothers won’t die, babies can survive’: new maternal hospital opens in world’s largest refugee camp
Thaslima Begum    As aid cuts strip back food and supplies, the facility offers a rare hope for Rohingya women who previously faced frightening and risky conditions to...
29  april     07h00
Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid
Rebecca Root    Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOsThe...
27  april     09h29
Weather tracker: Torrential rain in southern China leads to flooding fears
Daniel Adamson for MetDesk    Heatwaves reach 45C across India as unseasonably cold weather affects parts of central CanadaWidespread heavy rain is sweeping over southern China....
14  april     18h31
About 250 missing after boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsizes in Andaman Sea
Guardian staff and agencies    Trawler set off from Bangladesh and reportedly capsized due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowdingAbout 250 people are missing after a boat...
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