DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, were either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently on the way to Malaysia, according to the U.N. refugee and migration agencies. While details remained sketchy, Bangladesh Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Sabbir Alam Suzan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that nine people, including three Rohingya and six Bangladeshis, were rescued on

At least 16 political activists have been killed since elections were announced in December, prompting fears of a return to a climate of violence many Bangladeshis had hoped was behind them. A man walks past a police cordon a day after violent clashes erupted between supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and security forces, in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, on July 17, 2025 [Abdul Goni/AP] Dhaka, Bangladesh – When Kazi Shawon Alam learned that Azizur Rahman Musabbir, a f

In August 2017, armed attacks, massive scale violence, and serious human rights violations forced thousands of Rohingya to flee their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Many walked for days through jungles and undertook dangerous sea journeys across the Bay of Bengal to reach safety in Bangladesh. Now, more than 1 million people have found safety in Bangladesh with a majority living in the Cox Bazar’s region - home to the world’s largest refugee camp. The United Nations has de

Once one of the world’s poorest countries, the Republic of Korea is now a booming success story - and one of WFP’s top food aid donors Suwoong Han, 85, remembers what hunger was like after the Korean War, in the early 1950s. Photo: Yanghae Won Throughout his 85 years, rice has dominated Suwoong Han’s life. During bitter March days, when the soil is still hard, the elderly Korean farmer soaks rice seeds so they germinate. Then comes planting and pest control - and the chance t

Photo via UNHCR In the hilly terrain of Cox’s Bazar, life for over 1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest and most densely populated refugee camp is always a struggle, but monsoon season brings fresh challenges. Heavy rain makes the narrow walkways slippery and treacherous, and landslides threaten to destroy the latrines, bathing facilities and water points that refugees rely on. Since 2020, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has run an initiative that provides refugee

(Photo via The Financial Express) The government has conveyed to the Arakan Army that the Rohingyas must be included in different...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain explained to US officials on Thursday that there is a new reality, one that involves non-state...

The home ministry said that no cases can be filed against students and people who actively took part in the mass uprising of July-August. A notification, signed by Faisal Hasan, senior information officer of the ministry, was issued to this end. According to the notification, a new journey has begun towards building a discrimination-free new Bangladesh through the fall of the autocratic government on August 5. "The students and people who actively worked for the movement on t

WASHINGTON-Sharadiya Durga Puja, the largest Hindu festival in Bangladesh, started Wednesday under a cloud of concern following recent...