Tag Archives: Bangladesh

Tuesday, 28 March 2017 DHAKA: A young Bangladeshi girl diagnosed with a rare condition known as “tree man syndrome” has left hospital, said her father who feared that she will never be cured. Surgeons operated on Sahana Khatun last month and removed some of the bark-like growths she had developed …

Saturday, 18 March 2017 DHAKA: A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh’s elite security forces, wounding 2 others, in an apparent botched suicide attack. The incident came a day after a series of raids on suspected militant hideouts in the troubled country, which has suffered …

Friday, 10 February 2017 DHAKA: Bangladesh is working with Myanmar security forces to stop Rohingya militants crossing their shared border, but will continue to allow women, children and the elderly to seek shelter there, a top government official said. Around 69,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in …

Tuesday, 7 February 2017 Dhaka: A medical board yesterday decided to operate within a week on Shahana Khatun, possibly the country’s first female with tree-man syndrome. Medical examinations, including blood tests and biopsy, have already been done. Shahana might need two surgeries initially, said Samanta Lal Sen, national coordinator of …

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 YANGON/DHAKA: A special envoy of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin top-level talks in Bangladesh on Wednesday (11 January), as the United Nations said the Rohingya crisis prompted 65,000 people to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh in the past 3 months. Kyaw Tin, Myanmar’s deputy …

Friday, 6 January 2017 DHAKA: A Bangladeshi father dubbed the “tree man” because of the bark-like warts that once covered his body will soon be able to leave hospital after groundbreaking treatment for one of the world’s rarest diseases.   Abul Bajandar has undergone at least 16 operations to remove five …

Thursday, 22 December 2016 JAKARTA: Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi sees untapped potential in trade and investment with Bangladesh after a bilateral meeting with the South Asian nation’s Foreign Minister A. H. Mahmood Ali in Dhaka. Retno arrived in Dhaka late on Monday following an informal meeting with fellow …

Thursday, 5 October 2017 :  Bangladeshi authorities have destroyed about 20 boats that ferried Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, accusing smugglers of using the huge exodus to bring methamphetamine into the country. Refugees told Reuters that border guards also beat and arrested passengers and crew as they landed at Shah …

Friday, 22 September 2017 :  The United States will dispense about $32 million in humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya ethnic minority facing persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the State Department said Wednesday. “Through this support, the United States will help provide emergency shelter, food security, nutritional assistance, health assistance, psychosocial …

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 :  The bloodshed overtaking Myanmar’s Rakhine state forced Hamida, a Rohingya Muslim, to run from her homeland last week. She, her husband Nasir Ahmed, their two young sons and about a dozen other refugees boarded a small fishing boat crossing the Bay of Bengal to the …