Story Archive
2015-08-14
The province's economic growth is still the smallest in the Sumatra region and corruption is rampant.
2015-08-14
Indian authorities are also hunting for whoever was responsible for a grenade explosion at a local mosque.
2015-08-14
Both suspects in the slaying of Niladri Chottopaddhya belong to the outlawed group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), police say.
2015-08-13
Meanwhile, Thailand issues arrest warrants for 26 more people wanted in connection with a human-trafficking scandal.
2015-08-13
“I honor the temple as much as I do the mosque,” says its principal caretaker, an adherent of Islam.
2015-08-13
So far this year, 44 women and girls have died after being raped, an NGO says.
2015-08-12
An opposition party and a group of hackers come after Najib Razak over questions about how hundreds of millions of dollars landed in his bank accounts.
2015-08-11
Human rights advocates have accused the Thai military of forcing people in the insurgency-affected Deep South to give authorities DNA samples.
2015-08-11
"That night, my mother made me promise that I would find a way to escape and never return to Burma,” Mohammed Tahir says.
2015-08-10
The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh members are convicted and sentenced for their roles in a series of bombings in 2005.
2015-08-10
But members of the country’s secular blogging community don’t feel safe and are trying to flee abroad.
2015-08-07
Suspects are seldom nabbed at the scene of the crime – even those committed in broad daylight.
2015-08-07
The rise of the Islamic State (IS) terror group emboldens extremists, police official says.
2015-08-07
Niladri Chottopaddhya, whose pen name was Niloy Neel, became the fourth secular blogger killed by alleged Islamists this year.
2015-08-06
Lutfor Rahman’s arrest and the recent arrests of other suspected JMB members of the extremist group is refocusing attention on the banned extremist group.
