Bangladesh : Lawyer Herald

New Child Marriage Law In Bangladesh

On February 27, the Bangladesh government passed a law that would allow for child marriage to occur ...

Mar 06, 2017 11:30 AM EST

Two Hindu teachers in Bangladesh were sentenced to jail after publicly insulting Islam. A mob of ang...

Apr 27, 2016 04:38 AM EDT

Renowned Journalist Shafik Rehman was recently arrested and charged in a court in Dhaka for Sedition...

Apr 19, 2016 04:01 AM EDT

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against the head of the country’s largest Isl...

Jan 11, 2016 04:08 AM EST

As a teenager, Uttam Shaha says he used to watch scornfully from his bedroom window as men in brown ...

Oct 13, 2015 01:44 AM EDT

Bangladesh stepped up security for foreign diplomats and citizens on Sunday after the killing of two...

Oct 04, 2015 10:44 PM EDT

Drugmaker Abbott Healthcare is challenging West Bengal's accusation that a sample of the company's c...

Sep 14, 2015 01:59 AM EDT

Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minis...

Jul 03, 2015 10:18 AM EDT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked outrage after he praised his Bangladeshi counterpart for he...

Jun 08, 2015 07:56 AM EDT

More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through ...

Jun 02, 2015 06:43 PM EDT

Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human traffickin...

May 25, 2015 06:44 PM EDT

May 24 At least eight Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were among some 200 migrants rescued from a traf...

May 24, 2015 04:44 AM EDT

Thai police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking net...

May 04, 2015 07:31 AM EDT

Myanmar's decision to revoke temporary identification cards for minorities is raising tensions among...

Feb 17, 2015 01:03 AM EST

When eight South Asian leaders gather for a summit in Kathmandu on Wednesday, they will meet in a co...

Nov 26, 2014 12:14 AM EST