COVID-19: revealing the inequalities in the world of work

By Guest Writer,

While most workers will not have the opportunity to take the streets and raise their challenges, we need to enforce a core message: the COVID-19 disru...

COVID-19

Wendy’s boss in Lebanon found her preparing dinner. Moments later, she was told to never touch food with her bare, black hands again

By CNN,

Wendy’s boss glared at her as she chopped coriander. Stone-faced and angry, he charged out of the kitchen to speak with his wife. Moments later, ...

domestic workers , Lebanon , migrant workers

More than 100 dead and 6 million affected by flooding across South Asia

By CNN,

The death toll in South Asia continues to rise after flooding and landslides ravaged the border region of India and Nepal, leaving tens of thousands d...

flooding , India , SOUTH ASIA

Chinese worker killed in clashes at Bangladesh power plant

By Reuters,

Clashes erupted between Bangladeshi and Chinese construction workers at a Chinese-funded power station in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday in which a ...

Bangladesh , Chinese worker , power plant

Saudi Arabia says it seeks to avert war, ball in Iran’s court

By Reuters,

Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it wants to avert war in the region but stands ready to respond with “all strength” following last week’s attac...

Iran , Saudi Arabia , war

Bangladesh police say they have killed 2 Islamist militants

By VOA,

Police in Bangladesh say security forces killed at least two people suspected of belonging to an Islamist militant group behind the 2016 attack on a D...

Bangladesh

Four die as attack on Saudi police station foiled: Al Arabiya

By Reuters,

Four people died as an attack on a police station in Saudi Arabia’s central Riyadh province was foiled, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Su...

Riyadh province , Saudi

Fire at high-rise in Bangladesh kills at least five, 60 injured, many trapped

By Reuters,

A fire broke out at a 22-storey building in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka on Thursday, killing at least five people, injuring 60 and trapping and man...

Bangladeshi

20yr old woman gives birth to twins — a month after having first child

By CNN,

A 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman gave birth to twins -- 26 days after giving birth to her first child. Arifa Sultana gave birth to a boy in late F...

didelphys , twins , uterus

Bangladeshi team escape New Zealand shooting

By Reuters,

The Bangladesh cricket team narrowly avoided being caught up in a shooting at a mosque in Christchurch on Friday that left 40 dead and forced the canc...

mosque shooting , New Zealand

Lawyer for US-born Islamic State woman: she should return to US

By VOA,

A lawyer for an American-born woman who defected to the Islamic State says his client should be allowed to return the United States because she was bo...

Islamic state , US

Father sues to allow daughter who joined Islamic State to return to US

By VOA,

The father of an American-born woman who defected to the Islamic State terrorist group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration becau...

Islamic state

Bangladesh slum fire kills at least eight

By Reuters,

A fire gutted more than 200 slum houses in the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 50, poli...

Bangladeshi port , Fire , Rana Plaza

Bangladesh opposition demands chief election official quit

By VOA,

Bangladesh's main opposition alliance on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the chief election commissioner, accusing him of bias, ahead of Sunday's ...

Bangladesh , K.M.Nurul Huda , Kamal Hossain , Khaleda Zia , Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

Myanmar says policeman found dead near border with Bangladesh

By Reuters,

The body of a missing Myanmar policeman was found on the country’s troubled border with Bangladesh, state media and officials said on Sunday after a...

Bangladesh , Lt. Colonel Tin Han Linn , Major Mohammad Iqbal , Myanmar , ROHINGYA , U.N

At site of Rohingya Massacre, Burmese villagers say little

By VOA,

Kyaw Soe Moe, the head man of this northern Rakhine state best known as the site of a massacre of 10 Muslim men and boys by their Buddhist neighbors a...

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia

By Reuters,

Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine S...

Myanmar , ROHINGYA

‘If we go they will kill us’: Rohingya refugees fear repatriation to Myanmar

By CNN,

Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal army crackdown last year say they are terrified of going back to Myanmar, as authorities begin the process of repa...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Bangladeshi , Hassan Noor Saadi , Michelle Bachelet , Mike Pence , Mohammad Abdul Kalam , Myanmar , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , UNDP , UNHCR

Life and death: World Cup rivalry turns violent in Bangladesh

By AFP,

The World Cup is arousing high passions in Bangladesh, where machete-wielding fans of Brazil and Argentina have clashed in the streets and flags of th...

Bangladesh , Russia 2018 , World cup

Adios as Kitambi finally leaves AFC Leopards

By Godfrey Ashiali,

Dennis Kitambi has officially left his post as AFC Leopards coach as he prepares for new role at Bangladeshi club Saif Sporting Club which is managed ...

AFC Leopards , Dennis Kitambi