Dhaka - Sri Lanka fought hard to beat hosts Bangladesh by three wickets in the last league match of the Asia Cup in Dhaka on Thursday, gearing up for the final with an all-win record.

Dhaka - Sri Lanka bowled a tight line and length to restrict Bangladesh to a modest 204-9 in their last league match of the Asia Cup in Dhaka on Thursday.Spinners Ashan Priyanjan (2-11) and Ajantha Mendis (2-55) put the brakes on after Bangladesh won the toss ...

Dhaka - Standing knee deep in toxic chemicals, Mokter Hossain loads animal hides into huge drums filled with still more dangerous liquids at a tannery in the Bangladesh capital.Barefoot and sick with fever, Hossain stops every now and then to cough, a legacy o...

Dhaka - Safety experts hired by Western retailers such as H&M and Benetton will begin a mass inspection Wednesday of clothing factories in Bangladesh, nearly a year after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse.Dozens of fire officers and structu...

Dhaka - Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were denied bail on Sunday after surrendering to a court which sought their arrest over the country's worst industrial fire that killed 111 workers.

Chittagong - Kumar Sangakkara became the second batsman in history to score a triple-century and a hundred in the same match as Sri Lanka pressed for victory in the second Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong on Friday.

Dhaka - A boat packed with labourers and their children caught fire and capsized in a river in northeastern Bangladesh leaving at least 11 people dead and others missing, police said Tuesday.

Chittagong - A Bangladesh court sentenced Thursday the leader of the country's largest Islamist party and 13 others to death over a huge 2004 arms smuggling racket, sparking fears of new political unrest.

More than 40 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists last week in Burma's Rakhine state. Two international aid officials who visited the area said they found evidence of a massacre, BBC News reports.

Dhaka - Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a third spell as Bangladesh's prime minister on Sunday after a deadly general election boycotted by the opposition amid an ongoing political crisis.

Dhaka - The scheduled national election in Bangladesh turned violent when thousands of protesters firebombed polling booths across Bangladesh and unleashed a wave of violence in its bid to stop the ruling party from power.

Bangladesh is the world's second largest exporter of apparel after China. Cheap wages and lucrative trade deals have made the garment industry the country's main livelihood for millions of people, most of them women.

Yangon - A boat carrying at least 70 Muslim Rohingya capsized off the coast of Myanmar Sunday. Aid workers say that only eight survivors have been rescued.

A recent survey claims one Asian man in four admits to committing rape. Now someone has taken a critical look at these figures.

Dhaka - Hundreds of garment workers who were injured during the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in April are still awaiting compensation.

On the eve of the six month anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, United Students Against Sweat Shops are launching a new movement on college campuses across the the U.S. to demand an end to deathtrap factories.

Raleigh - Many fish from Vietnam and China contain formaldehyde, which has been known to cause cancer, according to tests. The study showed 25 percent of tested fish in supermarkets contained the carcinogen, and all of it came from Asia.

Derby - One British charity has found an ingenious method of helping airport security staff save potential victims of forced marriage.

Dhaka - Advertising and product endorsement has been big business since the 19th Century, but are endorsements all they appear to be, celebrity or otherwise?

Dhaka - The sentencing of a top Islamist leader to 90 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bangladesh 1971 war of independence triggered widespread protests in different parts of Bangladesh.