As student protests swept Bangladesh earlier this year, Shahnaz Sharmeen, a veteran TV journalist, realized her daugher Ahona ...

With a burgeoning economy, a growing middle class, and increasing internet penetration, the country is ripe for a digital ...

Beijing is keenly aware of the opportunities arising from the ouster of PM Sheikh Hasina, and will seek to strengthen its ...

A major outcome of this project was the report, “Situation analysis on online safety and privacy of journalists, women and ...

Two years ago, Nahid Islam graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor thesis that examined why no student movement in Bangladesh had ever managed to reach its goals. Little does it matter ...

Fingular, a Singapore-based global neobank, is getting ready to rapidly launch an innovative digital lending business in Bangladesh through a strategic partnership with a local licensed Non-Banking ...

Bangladesh is at a critical crossroads in its economic development, where the urgent need to boost foreign direct investment (FDI) has never been more pronounced. As the country grapples with ...

But the trouble in question wasn’t a parking fine or mystery ailment. Joy’s mother, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, was facing a popular uprising intent on forcing her ouster.

An estimated 18,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent months to escape abuses amid the surging fighting between Myanmar’s military junta and the ethnic Arakan Army, while another ...

Like many working-class students in Bangladesh, Sayed went to college ... the students adapted, relying on digital organizing. Many of today’s student leaders are those same schoolchildren ...

With my three-week visit to Bangladesh coming to an end, I decided to get outside the capital bubble and visit the village where I did the bulk of the field research for my book “Small Loans ...

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