Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups ‘at risk of electoral fraud’
Some Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are especially vulnerable to electoral fraud – that is the conclusion of research published today by the Electoral Commission.
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Migrant traffic is not all heading from north Africa towards Europe, there’s another route which is no less perilous. One used by Burmese Muslims and Bangladeshis who travel south in hope of a better life in Malaysia. But the traffickers who transport them often take them prisoner in camps on the Thai-Malaysian border, and it’s…
A blogger is brutally murdered by men with machetes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka – the second attack in five weeks on an online critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority country.
Bangladesh’s capital reels after a prominent blogger was hacked to death, the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support free-thinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
Some Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are especially vulnerable to electoral fraud – that is the conclusion of research published today by the Electoral Commission.
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After the supreme court rejects his lawyers’ last-minute appeal, Islamist opposition leader Abdul Quader Mollah is hanged at Dhaka central prison for war crimes committed in 1971.
Primark announces a compensation plan for victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse, six months on from the disaster in Bangladesh – but will it be enough? Channel 4 News takes a look.
Suppliers to leading British retailers used fabric produced by the Aswad Composite Mills factory in Gazipur that caught fire, killing at least nine people.
The UK government is donating £18m for the safety and skills training of Bangladeshi factory workers following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in April.
Amid walkouts and protests over poor working conditions, one factory boss in Bangladesh tells Channel 4 News that western brands are to blame for haggling over every last penny.
A month after the collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh, the final death toll is still unkown and workers are still waiting for any form of compensation.
Tropical cyclone Mahasen hit Bangladesh’s low-lying coast with heavy rain, strong winds and flooding on Thursday, killing six and forcing thousands into emergency shelters.
Walmart will not join a group of European retailers in a pledge for higher safety standards and puts forward its own safety plan. But Channel 4 News hears Walmart is merely “accepting the status quo”.
For the first time since the devastating collapse of a nine-storey factory that killed over 1,120 garment workers on 24 April, Primark is able to peek its head above the parapet.