TANGAIL, Bangladesh – Bangladesh’s Tangail sari is fighting for survival as weavers warn that automation and economic pressures are pushing the centuries-old craft to...
DHAKA – Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has named a former commerce minister to steer the country’s troubled economy and kept the defence portfolio...
DHAKA – Bangladeshi women carried flaming torches through the streets of Dhaka on Monday, marching to demand justice and political representation in the coming...
DHAKA—Textile worker Sabina Khatun is in limbo after losing her job during sweeping factory closures, caught up like millions in Bangladesh in the fallout...
Senator Francis Escudero on Friday urged health and border authorities to keep preparedness systems fully operational amid rising global concern over the Nipah virus.
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SYLHET, Bangladesh – Bangladesh begins official campaigning on Thursday for hugely anticipated general elections next month, the first since the 2024 uprising ended the...
DHAKA—Bangladesh bids farewell on Wednesday to former prime minister Khaleda Zia with a state funeral expected to draw vast crowds, mourning a towering leader...
DHAKA – Bangladeshi judges will issue the hugely anticipated verdict in the crimes against humanity trial of fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on...
DHAKA – Bangladeshi traders on Sunday assessed heavy losses after a devastating fire tore through the cargo complex of the country’s main international airport,...
RAJSHAHI, Bangladesh – In the swamplands along Bangladesh’s mighty Padma River, snakes slithering through villages have become an unrelenting menace, leaving residents terrified and...
Foreign buyers are helping to absorb some of the 19 percent tariff on Philippine garment exports, the Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (FOBAP)...
NEW DELHI – India has pushed hundreds of ethnic Bengali-speaking Muslims into Bangladesh without due process, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, accusing the government...
