¤ With Lower Garment-Industry Wages, Bangladesh Moves In on China
As costs have risen in China, it is losing work to countries like Bangladesh for cheaper, labor-intensive goods. |
¤ Party Supporters Clash in Bangladesh Protests More than 200 activists were arrested and several people were injured, as the main opposition party led a nationwide general strike to protest alleged government misrule. |
¤ Bangladesh Takes Home Some Positives From Cricket Performance in England Bangladesh's stature as a test-playing nation took a hit in England, as it decidedly lost two matches, but a gem of a player was uncovered in the young batsman Tamim Iqbal. |
¤ Australians Once Again Wriggle Free of Disaster Australia’s cricket team flirted with disaster before beating Bangladesh to advance to the Super Eights at the Twenty20 World Cup. |
¤ Spammers Pay Others to Answer Security Tests The work is attractive enough to lure young people in developing countries to decipher tests known as captchas. |
¤ Burmese Refugees Persecuted in Bangladesh
Aid workers say ethnic Rohingya refugees who have been living for years in Bangladesh are being seized, beaten and forced back to Myanmar, which does not want them. |
¤ No Refuge for Myanmar's Forgotten People
Stateless refugees from Myanmar are suffering beatings and deportation in Bangladesh, aid groups say. |
¤ India's Opening With Bangladesh The two nations share a host of problems, so why not work together to resolve them? |
¤ Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
Experts say millions in developing countries could be on the move because of worsening climate change. |
¤ 12 Hurt in Bangladesh Twelve people are wounded as unidentified attackers throw bomb at car of Bangladeshi politician Fazle Noor Tapas, who is related to Prime Min Sheikh Hasina |