Bangladesh

A 19-year-old British woman has bravely spoken out about being sexually assaulted by 30 men during a chaotic New Year's Eve celebrations in Milan.

The high concentration of arsenic levels has been attributed to seasonal flooding and rising sea levels.

A new study has made some frightening revelations about the harmful impact of air pollution on people living in South Asian countries.

The UN request urgent funding for their life-saving assistance to the victims of Cyclone Mocha, which killed over 450 people, in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The appeal will also help support thousands of Rohingya people, after the storm destroyed refugee camps.

A new report released by UNICEF, the children's agency of the UN, says that South Asian countries have the highest number of child brides in the world.,

A 15-year-old boy from Bangladesh was playing hide and seek when he fell asleep in a shipping container and found himself in a new country six days later.

Two Islamist militants managed to escape from the premises of a crowded court in Dhaka on Sunday.

At least 25 people lost their lives after the boat they were travelling in overturned in a river near the town of Boda in Bangladesh on Sunday.

Bangladesh will close schools for one extra day a week and cut office timings by an hour to save power, a government official said on Monday, as the country battles a shortage after shutting down all of its diesel-run power plants.

Rohingya demand security as UN rights chief visits Bangladesh camps

In a tragic incident reported from Bangladesh, a British family of five lost three members within the span of just one week.

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain.

At least 49 people were killed and more than 450 were injured after a fire broke out at a container depot in Sitakunda, Bangladesh.

At least six people lost their lives after a cargo vessel collided with a ferry carrying dozens of people on the Shitalakhsya River in central Bangladesh on Sunday.

Monira Khatun first underwent surgery for a stomach ailment in 2020

Greaves, who does not have a central contract with Cricket Scotland, said he was delighted with his all-round display.

In India, 80 percent of children aged 14-18 years said they learnt less than when they were in a physical classroom

Faced with the surge in a pandemic that has already killed more than 3.9 million people worldwide, officials are racing to vaccinate their populations.

Similar spikes in infections have been seen across Southeast Asia, with Indonesia setting a new daily infection record of more than 21,000.

The nation's president will issue the ordinance to address the country's high level of sexual violence and abuse against women.

Officials have warned that the current deluge could become one of the worst in recent years to hit Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

"Amphan" is expected to pack winds gusting up to 185 km per hour when it hits eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon or evening.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire on April 6 after she made a sexual harassment complaint against the principal of her rural Islamic seminary.

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Myanmar finally allowed the world's media in to Rakhine state to show they are ready to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims who fled the country.

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

The government has promised to find all the missing people amid concerns that the victims could be subjected to enforced detentions.

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.