カテゴリー: Bangladesh
More than 500 stranded on trawlers in what UN calls ‘human tragedy of terrible proportions’The Bangladeshi government has been urged to open its ports and allow two boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees to come ashore so they can be given urgent…
Government charters four flights to bring back 850 people paying £600 per ticketCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHundreds of Britons stranded in Bangladesh by the coronavirus lockdown are to return home after the UK governmen…
About 400 were on board, and more than 30 had died during perilous attempt to reach MalaysiaBangladesh’s coastguard says it has rescued at least 382 “starving” Rohingya refugees floating in a large boat in the country’s territorial waters after nearly …
As owner of brands including Topshop and Dorothy Perkins cancels unshipped orders, thousands will be left without income, warn rights groupsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Arcadia Group, which owns brands including Topsh…
Pledge comes in response to claims that order cancellations to minimise Covid-19 losses have hurt millions of workers in the developing worldCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrimark, one of the UK’s most popular retailers, ha…
Up to 100,000 women could be left unable to support families as brothels are closed amid fears of Covid-19 outbreakThe government of Bangladesh has started sending emergency food and aid to the tens of thousands of women working in the country’s commer…
Walls have been raised and societies quarantined as people enter a new realityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt should not have come as a surprise. Life had already been upended in China. Iran and Italy have been reeling fo…
Experts cast doubt on officials’ assertion in country that has 1,400-mile border with China The porous Myanmar-China border stretches more than 1,400 miles but coronavirus cases have only been reported on one side.In China, more than 80,800 people have…
Two dozen people have died and hundreds have been injured in India’s capital. The prime minister talks of peace and brotherhood, but he has led his country hereAs shocking as the outburst of hatred in Delhi has been, with the deadliest religious violen…
Smugglers responsible for mass atrocities in Thailand may be linked to capsized boat carrying refugees from Bangladesh to MalaysiaActivists fear a dangerous transnational trafficking network is being revived after at least 16 Rohingya refugees drowned …
At least 15 dead and many missing after overloaded vessel allegedly trafficking refugees to Malaysia sankAn overcrowded boat carrying about 138 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps has sunk in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at least 15 confirmed dead a…
Low-lying country is prone to tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall that often bring floodingOf all the countries at risk from the consequences of the climate emergency, the largest and most populous is Bangladesh. Home to more than 160 million people i…
Refugees in Cox’s Bazar complain the international aid community does not utilise their experience and say the lack of education risks creating a ‘lost generation’In a tea room just outside Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, a group of young activist…
Refugees in Cox’s Bazar complain the international aid community does not utilise their experience and say the lack of education risks creating a ‘lost generation’In a tea room just outside Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, a group of young activist…
Khalid Mollah died while working among the thousands who dismantle old ships in Chittagong. Now, in a test case that could transform the industry, his widow is suing the firm that sold the vessel for scrapKhalid Mollah was uneducated, illiterate and ou…