Voters in Bangladesh began casting their ballots as polls opened in an election fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, paving the way for prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League to seize a fourth consecutive term. Authorities said at least 18 arson attacks were reported across the country since […]
Polling booths were set ablaze in Bangladesh on the eve of Sunday’s general elections, while four people, two children among them, were killed in a train fire that the government decried as arson targeting democratic values. Friday’s fire broke out at about 9pm (3pm Irish time), injuring eight passengers as it spread to four compartments […]
(Bloomberg) — A Dhaka court sentenced Muhammad Yunus — who won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microloans to some of Bangladesh’s poorest — to 6 months in jail for labor law violations. Most Read from Bloomberg A labor inspector had found that employees of Grameen Telecom, of which Yunus, 83, is chairman, were denied […]
A labour court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labour laws. Yunus, who pioneered using microcredit to help impoverished people, was present at the hearing in Dhaka and was granted bail. The court gave the defence 30 days to appeal. Grameen […]
An old video showing exiled Bangladeshi opposition figure Tarique Rahman in a wheelchair has resurfaced online alongside false claims it shows him after being assaulted in London. But the journalist that took the clip told AFP it was in fact filmed in 2008 when Rahman arrived in the United Kingdom for medical treatment. A spokesperson for […]
Indonesian authorities have detected at least five boats packed with refugees approaching the shores of Aceh province, officials said on Thursday. The boats are the latest in a surge of vessels that have arrived in Aceh, most carrying Rohingya refugees from southern Bangladesh, where the persecuted Muslim minority fled in 2017 following attacks by the […]
The cataract of news and pontification about Henry Kissinger’s death reminds me of an email I sent out nine years ago with some notes on a book that chillingly documented — mostly from Kissinger’s own words — a piece of his record that should be getting a lot more attention.  The book was “The Blood […]