Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or keeping children out of school to spend all day scouring for firewood ...
Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children. The government in partnership with the World Health Organization, the ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 6 (IPS) - Bangladesh's first credible election in nearly two decades delivered a landslide win for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its leader Tarique Rahman, son of a former prime minister, just back from 17 ...
A major outbreak of measles has seen thousands of children suspected of contracting the highly-contagious disease, which is caused by a virus, as hundreds are reportedly being admitted to hospitals daily ...
Authorities in Bangladesh say five people have died in a fire that broke out at a factory manufacturing gas lighters near Bangladesh's capital. Officials said that the blaze broke out ...