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News in-depthFake news
Deepfakes for $24 a month: how AI is disrupting Bangladesh’s election
...Bangladesh’s Cyber Security Act, for example, has been criticised for giving the government draconian powers to crack down on dissent online....
December 14, 2023
Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in power at Bangladesh election
...Even if Sheikh Hasina — the world’s longest-serving incumbent female leader, who headed Bangladesh between 1996 and 2001 and again since 2009 — remains in power, analysts said her government would find it...
January 8, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthBangladesh
Bangladesh election raises fears of descent into one-party rule
...Since last year, Bangladesh has struggled with high inflation, fuel shortages and dwindling foreign reserves, forcing Sheikh Hasina’s government to seek a multibillion-dollar IMF loan....
January 4, 2024
Climate change
Asian region reels from heat and floods as WMO warns of climate change effects
...The government ordered some schools to be closed in Bangladesh this week because of the “severe heatwave” sweeping over the country, while in parts of India the school holidays have been brought forward...
April 23, 2024
News updates from January 9: False SEC post swings bitcoin price, Eurozone unemployment falls to record low
UK and US voice concerns over opposition arrests in Bangladesh
...The UK and US have decried election interference in Bangladesh after authorities arrested thousands of members of the main opposition party prior to voting on Sunday....
January 9, 2024
Person in the News
Sheikh Hasina: the Bangladeshi premier determined to retain power
...I am Bangladesh.’” Sheikh Hasina was born in 1947 in what was then East Bengal, part of the new Muslim state of Pakistan....
January 6, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
News updates from December 13: Fed signals rate cuts in 2024, BP former CEO to forfeit up to £32.4mn after ‘serious misconduct’
IMF approves release of loans for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
...Separately, the fund also approved a payout of nearly $700mn for Bangladesh under its own programme.Both countries approached the IMF last year after struggling with rising import costs and falling foreign...
December 13, 2023
InterviewIndian economy
India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank
...Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s opponents have sought to make joblessness a political issue ahead of the general election starting this month, with the rival Congress party on Sunday accusing the government...
April 2, 2024
News in-depthBangladesh
Bangladesh’s prime minister pins re-election push on mega-projects
...Sheikh Hasina’s government has responded by ramping up repression, hounding journalists and human rights activists and arresting leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, which has been...
October 6, 2023
News in-depthBangladesh
Bangladesh garment exporters say western brands not paying ‘ethical prices’
...storm” for Sheikh Hasina’s government....
November 15, 2023
Bangladesh
Bangladesh pushes back at US over visa curbs ahead of election
...Tensions are rising between Bangladesh and the west as the US pressures prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian government to ensure the integrity of upcoming elections....
October 1, 2023
Letter
Letter: Africa has a chance to leapfrog outdated farming practices
...However it was applied in Bangladesh. Farmers there were left having to cope with the negative impacts of the introduction of seeds and fertiliser technology packages....
April 15, 2024
The Big Read
Will Bangladesh come to regret its dash for gas?
...Of the Tk1tn ($9bn) of capacity payments by Sheikh Hasina’s government since it came to power, Summit has in recent years been the largest private beneficiary....
October 29, 2023
Thames Water
Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation
...In 2014 Network Rail’s £30bn of debts were added to the government’s balance sheet after the ONS reclassified it as a public body....
April 18, 2024
World Health Organization
Push by Bangladesh PM’s daughter for WHO role raises transparency concerns
...Wazed, who holds advisory positions to Bangladesh’s government on mental health and whose mother is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, told the FT that accusations of nepotism were “offensive”, and cited her...
September 25, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
UK immigration
House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill
...As a result of the government’s new immigration rules 40,000 people in the UK were “stuck in a Kafkaesque perma-backlog of inadmissible [asylum] cases”, he added....
April 17, 2024
Bangladesh
Bangladeshi court sentences Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to 6 months in prison
...“I will continue to serve the people of Bangladesh and the social business movement to the best of my ability,” he added....
January 1, 2024
Shipping
Somali pirates seize ship as global naval forces focus on Houthi threat
...Some local media reports have suggested the issue has re-emerged partly because of the anger of fishing crews in Puntland, on Somalia’s coast, with the province’s government....
March 12, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The pursuit of happiness
...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....
March 22, 2024
Renewable energy
Supply chain strains pose threat to UK renewables targets, report warns
...But he added there still needed to be a “holistic review” of skills, and said industry and government needed to work more closely together....
April 16, 2024
HS2
Lack of orders puts future of HS2 train factories in doubt
...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....
March 23, 2024
Letter
Letter: Our microfinance targets African women exclusively
...Yet, they are up to 30 per cent more likely than men to repay loans — a phenomenon the microcredit pioneer Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh found too....
April 8, 2024
Photo essay
Record amounts of sewage flow into UK rivers
Data from Environment Agency prompts calls for government to declare national emergency
April 4, 2024
Post Office scandal
Campaigner Alan Bates accuses government of ‘vindictiveness’ in treatment of Post Office victims
...The role of Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats and former postal affairs minister in the 2010 coalition government, has been under scrutiny since an ITV drama about the scandal in January sparked...
April 9, 2024
Paul Killik
Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion
...I believe successive British governments bear a good deal of responsibility for what has happened....
April 5, 2024

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