Bangladesh will have a hard time complying with the loan recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without antagonizing the public and big business ahead of the national election, analysts and stakeholders said.
The United Nations World Food Program announced on Friday that it will cut food aid to Bangladesh’s Rohingya starting in March because of funding shortfalls and despite warnings from its own experts that malnutrition is pervasive in the refugee camps.
A 12-hour gunfight and the torching of a refugee settlement along the Banglesh-Myanmar border thrust the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an old armed insurgent group, back into the spotlight.
The International Monetary Fund announced it officially awarded a two-part loan totaling about U.S. $4.7 billion to Bangladesh on Monday to help preserve economic stability and strengthen the nation’s resistance to climate change.
Bangladesh High Court Recognizes Mothers as Standalone Guardians for Educational Issues
Bangladesh’s government has nixed a plan to use electronic voting machines for at least half the parliamentary constituencies in the next general election, citing a funds crunch, the Election Commission said
A senior U.S. official highlighted “tremendous progress” made by Bangladesh in reducing alleged extrajudicial killings by its elite RAB security force, which Washington had sanctioned in December 2021 over gross human rights abuses.
Dhaka wants good relations with both Beijing and Washington but striking a balance between the two superpowers is a challenge, Bangladesh’s foreign minister said Tuesday after meeting new Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
American orders for apparel made in Bangladesh are growing faster than U.S. imports from clothes manufacturing giant China.
As many as 20 people have died aboard a boat stranded at sea for days north of Indonesia’s Aceh province and carrying scores of Rohingya refugees