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...

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...

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....

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...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent    UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccination ratesBangladesh is battling its...

Ajas Khan    Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or keeping children out of school to spend...

Callum Jones    From fuel caps to four-day work weeks, the Middle East conflict has left the world’s top crude oil importing region desperate to shore up...

Aletha Adu Political correspondent    Action relates to corruption case over allocation of government land in Dhaka to a private companyA court in Bangladesh has ordered officials to...

Kenneth Roth    While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want outThere...

Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka, and Penelope MacRae    Many voice hope that moment will mark move away from repression and unrest and a chance to revive economyBangladesh’s new prime minister has been...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Dhaka    Voting was largely peaceful in an election seen as a test of Bangladesh’s democracy after years of political turmoil The Bangladesh Nationalist party...

Kaamil Ahmed    Destined to a perilous life with no right to an education or to vote, state recognition gives them hope’, campaigners sayThrough the decades that the...

Guardian Staff    The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has won a landmark parliamentary election on Friday, local TV stations showed, as ballots were counted through the...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka    Jailed then exiled in London, Rahman returns home as the main contender to be next prime minister of BangladeshTarique Rahman, who after 17 years in...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka    Jamaat e-Islami, oppressed under Sheikh Hasina’s rule, could take unprecedented share of the vote on ThursdayAs the clock hit midnight, the women...

Reuters    The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring IndiaThe World...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Kolkata    As Bangladesh prepares for the first election since Sheikh Hasina fled to India, Awami League figures living in Kolkata believe she can still return...

Matt Hughes    Concern raised over politicisation of sportBangladesh pulled out of men’s World T20 after rowBangladesh’s withdrawal from the men’s T20 World Cup...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen    Virus primarily spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccineAirports across Asia have been put on high alert...

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent    Survivors of violence hope proceedings will bring justice a step closer and set a precedent for future genocide allegations Finally, I feel like our...