Democrat Barack Obama will leave the White House trail later this week to head to the side of his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, just 11 days before the election. [Read more]

Nearly 53,000 children in China have been sickened by milk powder contaminated by an industrial chemical, the government said Monday, dramatically ramping up its previous figures. [Read more]

Taiwan has banned further imports of Chinese milk products after a scandal over contaminated baby formula that has sickened thousands of children on the mainland, officials here said Monday. [Read more]

South Korea’s entire Cabinet offered to resign Tuesday following a public uproar over the planned resumption of US beef imports, despite concerns of mad cow disease. [Read more]

Chittagong Correspondent
Leaders of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday blamed the local agents of the foreign conspirators for the recurrence of labour unrest at the apparel factories for destroying the garment industry. The leaders feared that the nation might have to see a sick economy and return of extreme poverty if the [...]

Staff ReporterHundreds of people - mostly children- are arriving at hospitals across the country daily. As last week, diarrhoeal diseases have been reported in more than 50 of the country’s 64 districts, with over 20,000 people affected over the past 10 days, said hospital sources.According to the Ministry of Health, about 10,000 new patients were [...]

UNB, Sirajganj
Three members of a family died from food poisoning and four others fell sick after taking food at Soydabad in Sadar upazila early yesterday.Local sources said seven members of Abdul Karim’s family fell sick shortly after having dinner on Tuesday night.They were rushed to Sadar Hospital where Karim’s mother Pariman Bewa, 60, son [...]

A special anti-graft court adjourned the hearing on charge framing in a barge-mount power plants case against Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina and seven others till April 17. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
A special court, set up in the high-security parliament complex to try high-profile corruption suspects, will today pass order on bail prayer for detained ex-Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina before charge hearing in another power-plant graft case against her.On Feb 13, the charge hearing was deferred as Hasina, also Awami League president, could not appear in [...]

A three-year-old boy from the Indonesian capital Jakarta who died last week had bird flu, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the toll to 105 in the nation worst hit by the disease. [Read more]