DHAKA, Bangladesh (AlertNet) Â? As families displaced by climate change push into Dhaka's already overcrowded slums, shacks are crowding up against the city's railway lines with disastrous results.

The Bangladesh garment factory fire, which killed 16 workers, was not an "accident," but part of an ongoing industrial ...

Architects help residents redesign fire-damaged homes to be safer and more liveable, but protecting them long-term is difficult as they lack land rights DHAKA, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

Have you ever given a thought to the social life of Dhaka’s toiling masses? Our service helps, our guards, drivers, office ...

DHAKA, March 11 (Reuters) - A massive fire ripped through a slum on Wednesday in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless. Hundreds of shanties were destroyed in the ...

A massive fire in a slum in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka has left thousands of people homeless. The blaze broke out at Chalantika slum in Mirpur on the northern outskirts of Dhaka on Aug. 16.

Despite promises of decentralisation and sustainable growth, the government’s latest revision of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) could deepen Dhaka’s urban crisis. By raising building height limits and ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

JAKARTA, IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Josna Begum lives ...