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China sends first span of Bangladesh's largest Padma Bridge

First Made in China span for Bangladesh's largest Padma bridge has reached the project site.

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Philippine central bank fines RCBC $29 million on Bangladesh cyber heist case

The Philippine central bank said on Friday (Aug 5) it will fine Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) 1 billion pesos (S$28.6 million) in relation to the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, one of the largest digital bank thefts in history.

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Bangladesh university teacher, student arrested over links to Dhaka terror attack

A Bangladeshi university teacher and a student studying at a foreign university have been produced before a court in capital Dhaka on Thursday as suspects in deadly Dhaka terror attack.

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Bangladesh identifies two Dhaka terror masterminds, announces 4 mln taka bounty

Bangladesh has identified two Dhaka terror masterminds and announced a cash reward of 4 million taka (about 50,632 U.S. dollars) to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the militant kingpins.

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Floods spread, kill at least 14 people in Bangladesh

More than a week of flooding has claimed at least 14 lives and drove hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in parts of Bangladesh.

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Bangladeshi court upholds death penalty for six militants for 2005 deadly court bombings

A High Court Division Bench in Bangladesh has upheld death sentence for six militants for 2005 deadly bombings at a court in Gazipur district adjacent to capital Dhaka leaving eight people including four lawyers dead.

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Bangladeshi ex-PM's son sentenced to 7 years in money laundering case

A High Court Division Bench in Bangladesh has awarded former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's eldest son Tarique Rahman a sentence of seven years in jail after scrapping a lower court order that had acquitted him in the money laundering case.

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Bangladesh approves proposal to amend extradition treaty with India to ease process

The Bangladeshi government has approved a proposal to amend extradition treaty with India to further ease the process.

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Youngest victim in Dhaka just wanted to make a difference

Rui Shimodaira spent her life helping others, but at the age of 27 it was cut short by the terrorist outrage in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh’s water shortage woes in stark contrast to country’s reputation for floods and cyclones

Every drink of water earns Seema, 15, a rebuke from her mother. The wells in their village in Bangladesh have run dry, and so everything they need must be carried by hand from up to half a kilometre away.

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Dhaka cafe siege shows fault lines of Bangladesh’s long history of political strife

When Bangladesh dismissed the Islamic State’s (IS) claim of responsibility for the deadly hostage crisis that gripped Dhaka’s diplomatic zone over the weekend, some questioned if authorities were in denial.

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Bangladeshi rich kids who grew up to be jihadists

Well-educated and hailing from wealthy families, the gunmen who killed 20 hostages in a Bangladesh cafe defy the increasingly outdated stereotype of jihadists from poor backgrounds who have been radicalised in madrassas.

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Uniqlo to halt business trips to Bangladesh after attack

Japan's Fast Retailing Co., owner of the Uniqlo casual-wear brand, said it plans to suspend all business travel to Bangladesh after militants targeting foreigners killed 20 people in the country's capital on Saturday, including seven Japanese.

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Failure to detain kingpins blamed for Bangladesh's worst hostage crisis

​In the aftermath of Bangladesh's worst hostage crisis that left dozens of people, including 18 foreigners and two police officers dead, questions about the efficacy of the country's mechanisms to rein in militant threats are now being asked.

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Japanese firms strengthen security in Bangladesh as 7 killed in Dhaka siege

Seven Japanese were killed as a result of the standoff with gunmen at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on July 2.

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Fears for the future of Bangladesh’s garment industry after deadly cafe attack

The horrific slaughter of diners at a Dhaka cafe has fanned fears that surging Islamist violence may imperil the giant garment industry in Bangladesh, which built its economy on cheaply supplying fashion to the world’s big-name brands.

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Bangladesh mourns victims of first-ever hostage crisis

With all the national flags at government and semi-government offices and foreign missions down at half-mast, Bangladesh is mourning on Sunday the deaths of victims of the country's first-ever hostage crisis involving militants.