Five years after a people’s movement to stop a power plant near the Sundarban, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government has pushed the project through. Why did this movement fail where others in Bangladesh have succeeded?
With massive anti-government rallies by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and their repression by the ruling Awami League-led government, battle lines are being drawn for the next general election
Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's much-awaited two-day visit to Dhaka, on 6-7 September, New Delhi's last-minute inability to sign a long-awaited
Afghanistan now has the honour of being the first country of the region to have its own remake of The Office, the hit UK TV series that has inspired copycat
BURMA
Feral fans
With umbrellas, water bottles, shoes and stones, infuriated Burmese fans at the Thuwunna sports stadium, in Rangoon, brought a 28 July World Cup qualifying match against Oman
The birth of Bangladesh was exceptional for one reason: it divided Pakistan, a country that for many was born out of the communal divisions of British India. Bangladesh emerged in
With the trial of those suspected of war crimes likely to begin soon in Bangladesh, closure for what took place four decades ago might finally be possible. But the opposition is determined to stop the process in its tracks.
BANGLADESH
Paralysed Bangla
Where the Bangladeshi government fails in supplying power to its people, it does not quite make up for in its attempt to find a solution to the
On 13 January, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had just returned home from New Delhi to face a barrage of accusations that she had "sold out" to India over
