Bangladesh

Bangladesh airline suspends flights to Nepal after fatal plane crash

Mar 15, 2018 16:24

Bangladesh’s US-Bangla Airlines has suspended its flights to Nepal indefinitely due to a shortage of aircraft, days after one of its planes crashed as it tried to land in the Nepali capital and killed 51 people.
Nepal begins probe of Bangladeshi plane crash, as recordings show apparent air control confusion

Mar 13, 2018 07:33

Recordings show apparent confusion between the pilot and air traffic control over the runway approach at Kathmandu airport as Nepal Tuesday began investigating its deadliest plane crash in decades.
At least 50 killed in Bangladeshi plane crash in Nepal

Mar 12, 2018 10:54

A Bangladeshi airliner with 71 people on board has crashed while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, killing at least 50 people, an army spokesman says.
Monsoon floods threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Mar 11, 2018 16:29

The persecuted Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine state who live in denuded hills in southern Bangladesh hope that the sandbags fortifying the slopes will survive the upcoming monsoon.
Rohingya Muslims stranded in borderland not willing to return

Mar 10, 2018 14:02

Some 6,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been displaced from their homes in Myanmar and are locked outside the border with Bangladesh are not willing to return home, a new report says.
UN has strong suspicion genocide has happened in Myanmar

Mar 07, 2018 09:50

The United Nations (UN)’s human rights chief has expressed strong suspicion that “acts of genocide” may have been carried out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar since August 2017.
Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims still languishing

Mar 04, 2018 14:08

Rohingya refugees who are living in a no-man’s-land between Myanmar’s Tambru and Bangladesh’s Konarpara border areas are still in great need of aid support.
Myanmar defends military build-up at Bangladesh border

Mar 02, 2018 10:42

Myanmar has defended its military build-up near the border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees have sheltered after fleeing a brutal military crackdown on their community.
Bangladesh to protest to Myanmar over troops gathering at border

Mar 01, 2018 14:31

Bangladesh will send a protest note to Myanmar over an increased security presence near a portion of their border where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been sheltering just inside Myanmar, a Bangladesh border guard official said on Thursday.
Rohingya escape after Myanmar threat

Feb 28, 2018 15:29

Hundreds of Rohingya living in no man's land have left their makeshift camp and crossed into Bangladesh after soldiers from Myanmar used loudhailers to threaten them, community leaders said Wednesday.