NEW DELHI: Even as Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina prepares to inaugurate later this month the landmark China-built Padma bridge, which promises to transform the country’s economy, Dhaka is treading cautiously on economic assistance from China. The Hasina government, according to an official source in Dhaka, has nixed a proposal for a high-speed Dhaka-Chittagong railway line
Bangladesh should reject a “cold war mentality and bloc politics,” China told Dhaka’s ambassador this week as it criticized Washington’s policy to contain Beijing that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined in a speech last week. This was China’s second apparent warning to Bangladesh in a little over a year. In May 2021, China’s envoy
Growing up, Nuru Majhi and his friends used to see dolphins jumping in Bangladesh’s southern coastal waters. “But now we see a lot less dolphins,” the 58-year-old fisherman from Patuakhali district told BenarNews. “The main cause of death is due to fishing nets. The number of fishermen has increased 10 times compared to 30 years
Malaysian police have detained two Rohingya they suspect of having instigated a riot and mass breakout at a detention center that led to six escapees being fatally struck by vehicles on a highway in the middle of the night, authorities in northern Kedah state said Friday. Eighty-eight Rohingya remained at large, including nine women and
Canada has actually agreed to provide sanctuary to 11 member of the family of a Rohingya rights activist who was assassinated at a refugee camp in Bangladesh last September, authorities in Dhaka and a human rights group said Friday. Nasima Khatun, the widow of Muhib Ullah, their 9 kids and the hubby of one of
Did they produce essential conditions for us to return to Rakhine state? Junta chief Snr. He is doing this due to the fact that of worldwide pressure and not because of goodwill. We are ready to go back, no matter who makes the decision to call us back, but it is impossible to return unless
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week to figure out whether it has jurisdiction to evaluate if atrocities committed by the Myanmar armed force against Rohingya Muslims made up a genocide. The West African nation of Gambia filed a case at the ICJ in November 2019 implicating Myanmar of breaching the
It alleges that aid companies in Coxs Bazar district shared documents showing repeating dangers, browbeating and intimidation against Rohingya prior to transfers to Bhashan Char in December 2021 and January 2022.” I saw my other halfs face was inflamed from the whipping,” she said. I do not desire to go to Bhashan Char.”. ” A
Bangladeshi government authorities this week had their very first meeting with Burmese junta agents on the problem of repatriating Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in Bangladesh. The repatriation talks, the very first in more than a year, have been moving at a snails rate because more than 700,000 of Myanmars stateless Rohingya ethnic minority left
