Bangladesh
Amid pressures from Quad, China discusses military ties with Sri Lanka
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
With the Indian Ocean increasingly becoming a locus of big power contestation, the recent two-day visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence...
6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded
Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure over the past decade likely to be an underestimate
23 Feb 2021
More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal,...
Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia
By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange,
Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
November 25, 2020
photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...
World Food Programme warns: COVID-19 pandemic will cause “famines of biblical...
By Jean Shaoul
23 April 2020
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday that without urgent action and funding, hundreds of millions of...
Biosphere Collapse?
by Robert Hunziker
December 19, 2019
Five years ago: Nations of the world met in Paris to draft a climate agreement that was subsequently accepted by...
Youth in revolt: Les Misérables—and other films: Made in Bangladesh, Mariam,...
Toronto International Film Festival 2019: Part 6
By David Walsh
2 October 2019
This is the sixth and final part in a series of articles devoted...
Bangladesh: Rana Plaza is Reminder that Workers, Not Profit, Should Control...
5 years have passed and the survivors and relatives of the victims of the Rana Plaza collapse continue to wait for justice
By V Arun...
The Crimes of Henry Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens details his research on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger.
Hitchens details Kissinger's involvement in assassination, torture and mass murder in in Vietnam,...
Media Downplays Millions Affected by Climate Change-Linked Floods in Asia
Over 1200 people have been killed in rains that have inundated a third of Bangladesh along with portion of India, Nepal and Pakistan
Source: The...
Trump in the White House, by Noam Chomsky
On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government – the executive, Congress, the Supreme Court – in the hands of the Republican Party, the most dangerous organization in world history.









