Suppliers to Walmart have delayed or put on hold some orders from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh, according to three factory owners and correspondence from a supplier seen by Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of a 35% tariff on the textile hub disrupts business.

DHAKA: Bangladesh has, over the past 18 months, registered the biggest influx of Rohingya refugees since the mass exodus of Myanmar’s largely Muslim minority nearly a decade ago, the United Nations said Friday. The UN refugee agency said up to 150,000 Rohingya had arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps since early 2024.

A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye.

Essential services for the Rohingya refugee population in Bangladesh are at risk of collapsing unless more money is found, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, with its appeal for $255 million to support them just 35% funded.

A rights group in Bangladesh accused the government on July 10 of overlooking more than 2,000 crimes committed against religious minorities in the country and excluding them from reforms.

Bangladesh will hold further negotiations with the United States to push for deeper tariff cuts, even as US President Donald Trump slapped a 35% levy on goods from the South Asian nation.

The fear of job losses is rippling through Bangladesh's garment hubs as U.S. President Donald Trump's 35% tariff on the South Asian nation threatens orders from its main export market and crimps the country's biggest industry.

Footage from India of a man's bare-handed fight against a leopard has been falsely shared online as an incident from Bangladesh. The critically endangered species is rarely seen in Bangladesh although one was recently photographed by camera traps in forests in Chittagong Hill Tracts.

BBC Eye investigates the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 2024, when 36 days of protest ended in bloodshed.

Bangladesh’s interim government is anticipating a favorable resolution in trade negotiations with the US, after being among the hardest hit by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs in April.

stated, “Bangladesh has been suffering due to a severe void in law and order since the fall of the previous Government in August last year. With a noticeable uptick in the number of criminal activity, of varying size and scope, the country has been in ...