The Rohingya mainly leave from huge camps in Bangladesh, where more than 1 million refugees forced to flee across the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine...

   A special court in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in prison, and her UK lawmaker niece, Tulip Siddiq to...

   The Gambia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2019, arguing a so-called clearance operation by Myanmar’s military in 2017...

   Though the US spent just 1% of its budget on foreign aid, Trump dubbed USAID wasteful and shut it down, a move that has proven catastrophic for the...

   In January, Siddiq resigned as a government minister following pressure because of her ties to her aunt.

   In a televised address, Muhammad Yunus said he would request the Election Commission to organise the vote before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

   The jet crashed onto the campus of Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood, where students were taking tests and attending...

   A widespread armed struggle against military rule in Myanmar began in February 2021 after generals seized power from the elected government of Aung...

   Lawyers for Siddiq said the charges against Tulip Siddiq were politically motivated and completely false, and that Dhaka has provided no evidence to...

   Eid al-Fitr was celebrated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with large gatherings in open grounds and mosques, along with the revival of a...

   It is easy to call for human rights from EU offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, our old, established democracies. In Bangladesh, Yunus is trying to...

   As many as 1,400 people were killed, mostly by the country’s security services, in demonstrations last summer against the now ousted leader Sheikh...

   The building in the capital of Dhaka was gutted while the country’s recently-deposed prime minister gave a fiery social media speech from exile in...

   Integrating the 1.4 billion people around the world with no access to a bank account into the financial system is a top priority for governments...

   Floodwaters in eastern Bangladesh have left people stranded and caused several deaths, including a pregnant woman.

   Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country following weeks of violent, student-led protests.

   Bangladesh’s incoming interim leader Muhammad Yunus appealed for calm on Wednesday and urged all parties to help the country rebuild after weeks of...

   The end to Sheikh Hasina’s 15 years in power came after weeks of violent unrest during which nearly 300 people died, according to local media reports.

   The country’s military chief General Waker-uz-Zamam said he was temporarily taking control of the country amid the unrest, but many won’t accept him.

   Sheikh Hasina’s whereabouts are currently unknown after crowds stormed the prime ministerial palace in Dhaka.

   The protesters demand the resignation of the country’s prime minister, and justice for over 200 students and others killed during protests last month.

   An internet blackout will remain in force and the nationwide curfew has been extended, meaning people will only be allowed out between 3pm and 5pm.

   Internet and mobile services were cut off after days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs.

   Authorities are still trying to establish a full death count and return identified bodies to the victims’ families.

   The European Union’s autumn summit, held this week in Brussels, was attended by a new prime minister who is a well-known face of the centre-left.

   French President Emmanuel Macron is on a two-day visit to Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to bolster bilateral relations between the two countries.

   Bangladesh is struggling through its lengthiest heatwave in half a century, as temperatures have surged to around 40 degrees Celsius.

   Around 1,000 people have been rescued along the western coast of Myanmar, after Cyclone Mocha hit on Sunday.

   At least five people have been killed and hundreds injured after Cyclone Mocha swept into Myanmar on Sunday. The tropical storm also hit Bangladesh,...

   Cyclone Mocha is expected to hit Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday with meteorologists warning it will bring extreme weather as it comes in from the...

   A decade after the Rana Plaza factory collapsed, Europe’s fashion industry still faces many ethical problems.

   Dozens of desperate migrants, who risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean in small boats, have arrived in Italy’s ports over the weekend....

   A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless.

   A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless.

   Bangladesh is hosting the 56th edition of the annual gathering of Bishwa Ijtema. The event takes place in the town of Tongi, by the banks of the...

   Tens of thousands of supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) rallied on the streets of the capital Dhaka to protest against...

   The legacy of the British partition of India lives on 75 years later. A new play in London inspects the impact of that legacy through verbatim...

   Water levels were receding in major rivers in Bangladesh’s northeast regions, but the city of Sylhet, which was badly hit by the floods, remained...

   Thousands of people marched in the Bangladeshi capital on Friday to call on Muslim-majority countries to sever diplomatic relations with India.

   The cause of the fire at the depot, located near the country’s main Chittagong seaport, 216 kilometres southeast of the capital Dhaka, could not be...

   New research reveals how cancelling orders and refusal to pay for work impacts vulnerable garment workers in Bangladesh.

   Thousands of people were left homeless after a fire gutted parts of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, destroying about 1,200 houses.

   Police in Bangladesh have arrested the owner of a ferry on which at least 37 people died in an onboard fire.

   An overcrowded night ferry caught fire in Bangladesh, killing at least 37 people, in the latest maritime tragedy to hit the impoverished low-lying...

   There was no word on what caused the fire.

   Thousands of opposition protesters continue to stage demonstrations across Bangladesh, demanding that the government allows ailing former Prime...

   Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to flooding and extreme weather. As cyclones and tidal surges hit its coastal regions, agriculture is being...

   Children in Bangladesh return to classrooms as schools reopen after 18 months, one of the world’s longest coronavirus shutdowns.

   Though the error may seem amusing, it speaks to a larger problem with fast fashion and activism.

   On April 24, 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza building on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed within 90 seconds, killing 1,134 people.