The ship-breaking industry in Sitakunda, Bangladesh, faces numerous challenges, including hazardous working conditions, environmental pollution, and minimal worker compensation. As older ships are ...

We crossed the river to Bangladesh by boat. We paid the owner 20,000 Myanmar Kyat ($15) for our family to cross alone -- if it was overloaded it would have sunk. I have no idea what the future ...

Hanida Begum kisses her infant son, Abdul Masood, who died when their boat capsized near shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on Sept. 14. Dar Yasin—AP A photographer’s tragic encounters from ...

Twenty bodies, believed to be of Bangladeshis killed after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean near Brega of Libya last week, have been buried in the north African country. Bangladesh foreign ...

The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has directed the Dhaka Boat Club Limited to vacate 10 acres of land in Savar, which it is accused of occupying illegally. In a letter issued to the club's ...