DHAKA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Scores of people, mostly holidaymakers, have drowned while bathing at Bangladesh's southeastern major tourist destination Cox's Bazar sea beach in the first half of this year ...

At least 20 turtles were dead and dozens more were rescued Sunday after being entangled in plastic waste washed ashore on one of the world's longest beaches in Bangladesh, officials and ...

The tourism season began yesterday and will continue until the end of January. Each day, a maximum of 2,000 tourists can travel to the island, and everyone must have a QR-coded travel pass issued ...

By Abu Siddique The amount of single-use plastic that gets recycled as a measure to manage plastic pollution is insignificant ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh found at least 40 dead turtles, some weighing 40 kg pounds) or more, on the beach of the Bay of Bengal over the past week, officials said on Thursday. At ...

SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh – He is too young to have a name but has already suffered more than most people do in a lifetime. Baby X was born nine days ago just after his family lost everything they owned. ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh is going ahead with an ambitious plan to reclaim land from the sea to help relocate people who have lost their homes to sea level rise, erosion and ...

The Bangladesh government has officially called off the development of a deep-sea port at Sonadia Island off the country’s southeastern coast. With this, the high-profile project on the Bay of Bengal, ...

Bangladesh needs a deep sea port. The country has one of world’s fastest growing economies, which is expected to rise at a 7.1 percent clip this year. It is on Goldman Sachs’s list of the “Next 11” ...

(Bangkok) – The Bangladesh government should immediately allow hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health ...