投稿者: Agence France-Presse in Dhaka
Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster’s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network…
Prizewinner has earned the enmity of the prime minister, who accused him of ‘sucking blood’ from poor peopleNobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been convicted of violating Bangladesh’s labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically …
Officers use rubber bullets and teargas to disperse demonstrators blockading main roads into DhakaBangladesh police have fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading main roads in the capital, Dhaka, in a protest demand…
Campaigners fear media crackdown under PM Sheikh Hasina after suspension order upheldThe only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party has stopped publishing after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in t…