Full Coverage: Bangladesh

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

25.05.2004 As a Scotland Yard probe begins into Friday's bomb attack on a shrine in northeast Bangladesh that killed three and injured over 70 people including the British High Commissioner, Opposition parties are accusing the government of harboring Islamic militants.

21.05.2004 Bangladesh's new agreement with the US to protect American interests and help identify suspected terrorists in the country has drawn flak from the Left, which feels it reeks of imperialism.

19.05.2004 The fear of an international boycott looms over Bangladesh's bustling Chittagong port - declared one of the world's most dangerous, piracy-prone ports by the world shipping watchdog - if the country does not implement global security recommendations.

18.05.2004 A Bangladesh NGO, working with partners on education, is focusing on education for all at an early age and is focusing on creative learning for young children.

17.05.2004 Micro-lending has become a powerful weapon in Bangladesh in its fight against poverty as it has transformed the life of many women and their families in areas close to Dhaka.

12.05.2004 Multilateral donors have warned Bangladesh they may slash aid or withdraw it from the impoverished nation if it fails to fulfill commitments to control crime and corruption and promote good governance.

11.05.2004 Thanks to government apathy, encroachers and looters are destroying a 2,374-year-old city in northern Bangladesh that is considered holy by Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists and is renowned for an annual festival of marijuana users, beginning Thursday.

07.05.2004 Amid growing political and business unrest, the Bangladesh government has launched a concerted campaign against the country's largest nongovernmental organization (NGO) Proshika, raiding its offices and arresting over 50 employees on specious charges of corruption and sedition.

05.05.2004 A 1997 study of the US boycott of child labour products from Bangladesh which resulted in children losing their garment factory jobs, with many of them being forced into even more hazardous labour.

03.05.2004 More than two dozen journalists have been killed in Iraq since last year's launch of the U.S.-led invasion, making the Middle Eastern nation the world's most dangerous journalist assignment, according to the New York-based watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Iraq was followed by Cuba, Zimbabwe, Turkmenistan, and Bangladesh in the top five of the Ten 'World's Worst Places to Be a Journalist,' an annual listing by CPJ in honor of World Press Freedom Day, May 3.