Lawyers

• New Child Marriage Law In Bangladesh

  On February 27, the Bangladesh government passed a law that would allow for child marriage to occur in "special circumstances".

• Story of The Muslim American Woman Behind The Face of Anti-Trump Protests

  A Muslim-American woman who was photographed nearly 10 years ago has become the face of anti-Trump protests. She reveals that it has been a surreal experience to her.

• Hindu Teachers Jailed After Derogatory Remarks About Islam

  Two Hindu teachers in Bangladesh were sentenced to jail after publicly insulting Islam. A mob of angry students and villagers attacked the teachers forcing them to lock up in a room. Insulting the religion in the said country will spark violence resulting to killings.

• Journalist Shafik Rehman Accused of Acts of Sedition, Arrested in Bangladesh

  Renowned Journalist Shafik Rehman was recently arrested and charged in a court in Dhaka for Sedition, according to reports. However, Rehman's family are stressing that the arrest was illegal and that they have no grounds to do so.

• Death sentence against Nizami will heal the wounds of those affected by the war in Bangladesh

  Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against the head of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes during the country’s 1971 fight for independence from Pakistan. Bangladesh said that the death sentence is necessary to heal the wounds of those affected by the war.

• New recruits to Hindu cause hear anti-Muslim message

  As a teenager, Uttam Shaha says he used to watch scornfully from his bedroom window as men in brown shorts performed martial exercises in a car park below. Like many Indians then, he viewed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a fringe group.

• Bangladesh beefs up security for foreigners after second killing claimed by Islamic State

  Bangladesh stepped up security for foreign diplomats and citizens on Sunday after the killing of two foreigners within a week in attacks claimed by Islamic State, which has vowed similar further assaults in the Muslim-majority nation.

• Abbott tangles with Indian regulators over cough syrup complaint

  Drugmaker Abbott Healthcare is challenging West Bengal's accusation that a sample of the company's cough syrup contained excessive levels of codeine, the second multinational to question India's regulatory testing regime in recent months.

• India's push to save its cows starves Bangladesh of beef

  Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year - stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbour.

• Modi draws flak for "despite being a woman" comment about Bangladeshi PM

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked outrage after he praised his Bangladeshi counterpart for her courage to fight terrorism "despite being a woman", triggering an avalanche of criticism on social media site Twitter.

• Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on

  More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through the sweltering camps of mud houses where they found shelter in southern Bangladesh that they will soon be on the move again.

• Malaysia finds 139 graves in 'cruel' jungle trafficking camps

  Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country's police chief said on Monday.

• Rohingya Muslims found on boat rescued by Myanmar navy

  May 24 At least eight Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were among some 200 migrants rescued from a trafficking boat by the Myanmar navy on Thursday, according to interviews conducted by Reuters, contradicting official accounts that all onboard were from Bangladesh.

• Thai police arrest Rohingya man suspected of running deadly jungle camp

  Thai police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking network that ran a jungle camp where dozens of bodies have been found.

• In Rohingya camp, tensions mount over Myanmar plan to revoke ID cards

  Myanmar's decision to revoke temporary identification cards for minorities is raising tensions among its 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims, who have effectively been disenfranchised just days after parliament approved a law affirming their right to vote in a referendum.

• China looms over South Asian summit in the Himalayas

  When eight South Asian leaders gather for a summit in Kathmandu on Wednesday, they will meet in a conference center donated by China to its cash-strapped Himalayan neighbor Nepal 27 years ago.

• Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death for war crimes

  A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted an Islamist party leader on Sunday of atrocities during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago and sentenced him to death

• Rising rural wages in Asia will reduce extreme poverty: report

  The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the next decade, a new report showed on Thursday.

• Rohingya could face detention under Myanmar draft plan

  Myanmar's national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained.

• Bangladesh Factory: Woman Found Alive in Rubble 17 Days After Collapse (Video)

  Rescue crews working through the rubble at the Bangladesh building collapse site scurried to extract a woman found alive in the wreckage on Friday. She reportedly was pleading, "'m alive. Please rescue me."