17/06/2013 17:55 CET Bangladeshi security forces have opened fire on textile workers protesting in pursuit of a higher minimum wage. Police used batons, rubber bullets and tear gas on day five of demonstrations near the capital Dhaka. Workers on a minimum wage equivalent to 28 euros a month, want their monthly [...]

Bangladesh's history is replete with ironies. If you have lately heard or read of Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu's invitation to General Ershad to broker a dialogue between the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, you will get a fairly good idea of how irony has been an integral part of politics here. The [...]

Akram Khan , the former Bangladesh captain, has resigned from his position as chief selector, a week before his contract was to expire. The announcement came following Chittagong Divisional Sports Association's decision to nominate him as its councillor ahead of the BCB elections, which is likely to be held in the first week of October. [...]

Bangladeshi villagers work to protect embankments from water erosion. The UN should build on its work in the battle against climate change and the rapid urbanisation that has accompanied it. Photograph: David … [Read More]

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Bangladesh, the world's second-largest producer of textiles after China, has the lowest minimum wage. Angry workers have taken to the streets to demand more money and better working … [Read More]

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Source: Bangladesh News latest RSS headlines - Bangladesh News.Net

HIGHLIGHTS The face of bonded labour Asia has biggest share Holistic approach needed Targeted research holds key BANGKOK, 25 September 2013 (IRIN) - There was a time when slavery was synonymous with shackles, whips, cramped ships and white plantation owners. Today the face of bonded labour and [...]

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in United Nations with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday.During their talks, Wang said China and Bangladesh have been good neighbors for a long time, and added there are no problems between the two countries: only trust, friendship and cooperation.Lauding Bangladesh's firm support on issues concerning China's core [...]

Security forces of India and Bangladesh have vowed to resolve issues of infiltration, trafficking and smuggling by criminals alongside the border with an aim to enhance bilateral relations between the neighbouring countries. West Bengal shares a long border with Bangladesh and normally friendly relations between India and Bangladesh have often been marred by border firing, [...]

At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound [...]

The following is a CPJ Blog post by Sumit Galhotra/CPJ Asia Program Research Associate:Bangladesh's Supreme Court has hardened the sentence against Abdul Quader Molla, a top Islamist of a key opposition party, from a life term to death for his role in mass killings committed during the country's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971. [...]