Tag: Bangladesh

Four Myanmar nationalists were held on Friday for inciting violence during anti-Rohingya protests in Yangon last year, after a week ...

Myanmar's army chief defended his military's violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims by comparing it to Britain's campaign to tackle sectarian ...

Some 20 foreigners held at an immigration detention centre in Tokyo are on a rare hunger strike in an apparent ...

Yangon police arrested several Buddhist nationalists Thursday for inciting violence after at least one man was left injured in a ...

India’s Supreme Court has formally opened hearings into a number of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in ...

India's Supreme Court is hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam. The court ...

Bangladeshi police have carried out a string of raids on suspected militants in recent weeks Police in Bangladesh say five ...

Bangladesh police on Thursday raided a suspected Islamist hideout in an operation that left five relatives and a fire officer ...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Sri Lanka on Thursday on a charm offensive as New Delhi seeks to ...

Exactly two years after his appointment, Ireland coach John Bracewell finally comes up against his native New Zealand in a ...

Libya's coastguard on Wednesday intercepted a wooden boat packed with more than 350 migrants after duelling with a German rescue ...

Police in Myanmar fired warning shots to break up scuffles between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Myanmar's biggest city in ...

A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...

A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...

The United Retailers Association of Ghana is appealing to the Minister for Trade and Industry to investigate the operations of ...

Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday rejected a decision by the UN's rights council to investigate allegations of crimes by ...

Bangladesh is using "draconian" internet laws to crack down on dissent, curb public debate and criticism and harass and prosecute ...

Bangladesh on Tuesday imposed a 10-year ban on a bowler who deliberately lost a match by conceding 92 runs off ...

Sri Lanka's coastguard have detained an Indian boat which illegally entered the island's territorial waters and rescued 30 Rohingya refugees ...

Sri Lanka's coastguard Sunday detained an Indian boat which had illegally entered the island's territorial waters and rescued 30 Rohingya ...