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Switch to LNG threatens renewable energy development in Asia
Mar 25, 2021 09:51The Bangladeshi government’s signaled move to replace 13 under-construction coal power projects with LNG will see an opportunity to fix its power system missed. A shift to LNG would expose Bangladesh to even greater fossil-fuel price volatility.
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Fire at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh kills several: Witnesses
Mar 23, 2021 04:59A huge fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people, officials and witnesses said, in the worst blaze to hit the settlement in recent years.
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Rohingya refugees suffering mental distress
Feb 04, 2021 16:09The recent coup in Myanmar compounds the nationwide instability and stress that fuel the mental-health crisis festering among Rohingya survivors and places real solutions further out of reach.
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Bangladesh sends another group of Rohingya Muslims to a remote island
Jan 29, 2021 09:28Bangladesh has sent a third group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island that was surfaced only 20 years ago, in the Bay of Bengal.
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Huge fire guts Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, destroys belongings
Jan 15, 2021 02:35Thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been left without shelter after a huge fire swept through an overcrowded camp in southeast Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh continues relocation of Rohingya refugees to island
Dec 29, 2020 08:38Bangladesh has started relocating a second group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Bangladesh to send hundreds more Rohingya to remote island
Dec 27, 2020 05:48Bangladesh is set to send hundreds more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, weeks after it started their force removal from border with Myanmar.
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Bangladesh starts 'coercive' relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Dec 04, 2020 09:43Bangladesh has started forced removal of hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Rohingya refugees coerced into going to remote Bay of Bengal island: Aid workers
Dec 04, 2020 05:18Rights groups and humanitarian workers say some of the thousands of Rohingya refugees being shipped to a Bangladeshi island have been coerced into going to the remote, flood-prone place.
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Rights groups urge Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya
Dec 03, 2020 08:56Human rights groups have urged Bangladesh to immediately stop its plan to relocate thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.