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Bangladesh poised between agony and ecstasy: the choice depends on us!
If world leaders settle for modest restraints on global warming, I do not want to have to be the reporter sent to see the unfolding tragedy in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina escaped in a military helicopter as protesters stormed her official residence.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called on her to help the Rohingya refugees. Mr Johnson said Burmese authorities should fully investigate the violence against the Rohingya minority and create the ‘right conditions’ for them to return to their homes in Rakhine state. More than 620, 000 Rohingya…
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called for the safe and dignified return of the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority have fled what the UN has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, and ahead of meeting Aung San Suu…
The UK is sending doctors and nurses to Bangladesh, to try to save Rohingya Muslim refugees from the spread of a deadly diphtheria outbreak. In the camps sheltering people who’ve fled violence in Myanmar, there are around 160 new cases of the bacterial infection every day. The British team will treat those who’ve caught the…
Myanmar has signed a deal with Bangladesh to send hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees back home. Earlier today Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi met the Bangladeshi foreign minister to discuss the details of the agreement. They say repatriations will begin within the next two months. More than 600 thousand people have crossed…
Shocking testimony from Rohinghya women about rape and assault by soldiers in the Myanmar military
The United Nations has urged the international community to come up with hundreds of millions of pounds to deal with the Rohingya refugee crisis. It is now estimated that more than 600,000 Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar since violence erupted at the end of August. More than half of them are children.
A new wave of up to 15 thousand Rohingya refugees have crossed the border from their homes in Myanmar to seek refuge in the makeshift camps inside Bangladesh. Some of the new exodus have described scenes of violence that the UN has called ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’. Myanmar’s military government has maintained they are targeting militants,…
If world leaders settle for modest restraints on global warming, I do not want to have to be the reporter sent to see the unfolding tragedy in Bangladesh.
A British man, Touhidur Rahman, is among three people arrested in Bangladesh for alleged involvement in the brutal murders of two secular bloggers.
The family group from Luton, which reportedly includes a baby and two grandparents, failed to return home from a holiday in Bangladesh in May. Police say they could have gone to Syria.
The worst earthquake to hit Nepal in 81 years leaves at least 1,500 people dead, killing dozens in India and causing an avalanche at Mount Everest.
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.
With union membership rising, Bangladeshi factory workers take part in May Day protests over their own cost of living crisis: slum housing, malnutrition and unaffordable healthcare.