Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh on Thursday began relocating hundreds of Rohingya refugees to an island in the Bay of Bengal, despite ongoing concerns from rights groups over the conditions on the vulnerable low-lying island and that no refugees should be sent forcibly.

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group, over 700,000 of whom fled persecution and violence in neighboring Myanmar in August 2017. Bangladesh has been sheltering 1.1 million of the refugees in crowded camps near its coast.

DHAKA, Nov 16 (NNN-BSS) – The fifth session of the Joint Commission meeting between Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was held yesterday in Dhaka, to discuss a range of bilateral initiatives.

The meeting was co-chaired by Bangladeshi Finance Minister, AHM Mustafa Kamal, and Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, minister of state, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the UAE.

Senior officials of both sides attended the meeting face-to-face, while their team leaders joined the meeting virtually.

DHAKA, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The fifth session of the Joint Commission meeting between Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was held Monday in Dhaka to discuss a range of bilateral initiatives.

The meeting was co-chaired by Bangladeshi Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, minister of state, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the UAE.

Senior officials of both sides attended the meeting face-to-face while their team leaders joined the meeting virtually.

DHAKA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- In the first public exams in nearly 20 months since outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, around 2.2 million students began Sunday this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams in Bangladesh.

The exams, which are usually held every year in February, began at 10:00 a.m. local time Sunday after over a nine-month delay.

SHYAMNAGAR, Bangladesh (AP) — With each tide, Abdus Satter watches the sea erode a little more of his life.

His village of Bonnotola in southwestern Bangladesh, with its muddy roads and tin-roofed houses, was once home to over 2,000 people. Most were farmers like the 58-year-old Satter. Then the rising seas poisoned the soil with salt water. Two cyclones in the last two years destroyed the mud embankments that shielded the village from tidal waves.

Now, only 480 people remain, with the rest rendered homeless by the sea.

DHAKA, Oct 22 (NNN-BSS) – At least seven persons were killed and seven others injured, in clashes between two rival factions of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, at a camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, early today.

Shihab Kaiser Khan, a senior Armed Police Battalion (APBn) official, told journalists that, “the bodies of the seven Rohingya refugees, including several bullet-ridden, have been recovered following the early morning clashes.”

He said, a Rohingya refugee has already been detained with weapons, in this connection.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Protests erupted for a second day in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday, amid a wave of violence against local Hindus following a viral social media image perceived as insulting to the country’s Muslim majority.

Some 10,000 protesters — many of them carrying banners of Islamist political parties — took to the streets outside the main mosque of the capital, Dhaka, a day after demonstrations on the same site ended in clashes with police.

The crowd chanted “Down with the enemies of the Islam” and “Hang the culprits”.

DHAKA, Oct 11 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladeshi Commerce Minister, Tipu Munshi, termed China as a “great friend” of Bangladesh and emphasised on enhancing bilateral relations between Bangladesh and China, especially boosting trade ties.

“There is no doubt that China is a great friend of Bangladesh and they play a big role in our development efforts,” said the minister, while addressing the “BCCCI-ERF Best Reporting Award on Bilateral Relationship between Bangladesh and China” as the chief guest.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The United Nations and Bangladesh’s government have signed an agreement to work together to help Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands have been relocated from crammed camps near the Myanmar border.

More than 19,000 Rohingya have already been moved to the Bhasan Char island by the government, and the U.N. said one of the key reasons to sign the agreement was to start serving that population.

Bangladesh plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya to the island in phases from the crowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district.

DHAKA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.N. officials signed a deal with Bangladesh on Saturday to help provide basic services to thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been moved to camps on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.

The Bangladeshi government has moved nearly 19,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island from border camps despite protests by some refugees and opposition from rights groups, who say the low-lying island is vulnerable to flooding and storms.