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Bangladesh

Asia & Pacific 7 months ago

Stuck in grim camps, Rohingya hope Bangladesh can tackle crisis

Bangladesh has recorded a surge of refugees from Myanmar since early 2024, with 150,000 more Rohingya arriving.

Asia & Pacific 7 months ago

Bangladesh exhausts resources for Rohingya refugees, chief adviser Yunus warns

Children make up half the 1.3 million Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, most of whom fled a brutal 2017 military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that UN investigators called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

Asia & Pacific 8 months ago

At least 20 killed as Bangladesh fighter jet crashes into school

Many of the victims were young students who had just been let out of class when a Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft slammed into the Milestone School and College.

Asia & Pacific 10 months ago

Bangladesh's Yunus could quit over lack of reform progress

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over as interim head of the South Asian nation of 173 million last August after a student-led uprising forced then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.

Academia 10 months ago

Will US-China tug of war ensue over Rakhine State?

Growing US interest in Myanmar’s Rakhine State could prompt China to ramp up its backing for the military junta in Naypidaw.

Academia 1 year ago

Taking stock of Bangladesh post-Hasina

Drastic reform may not happen, but Bangladesh’s future would be better than the past.

Asia & Pacific 1 year ago

US official sought to end aid for Rohingya refugees

Written on February 16 by Peter Marocco, the acting USAID deputy administrator, the email provides a window into some of the thinking behind the administration's drive to terminate aid programs that it does not believe benefit the US.