As Ukraine evacuates trapped seafarers, foreign mariners count cost of war reut.rs/3HP4fr9

reuters.com/business/retai… with Ruma Paul A near doubling in benchmark cotton futures to 11-year highs, hard on the heels of a spike in freight and fuel prices, is clobbering Asian apparel makers while their global retail customers reluctant to soak up the extra costs. #textile

Analysis: 'Sitting above a bomb': Bangladesh's missed fire-safety lessons reut.rs/3mpwS5K

The supply deal with Russia, the world's biggest wheat exporter, could help Dhaka in meeting its needs below the elevated global prices. with Ruma Paul #wheatexport #wheat #inflation #FloodsUpdateInBangladesh #food #FoodShortage

Bangladesh's garments exporters brace for slowdown after Walmart warning reut.rs/3baiBba

Bangladesh garment export growth seen slowing to 'normal' 15% this year reut.rs/3zLXg0e

Bangladesh to cut school, office hours to save power reut.rs/3KggO1E

Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding threaten more and more farmland reut.rs/3VHtO5D

Crimes in Bangladesh refugee camps and the number of Rohingya arrested last year were 16 times 2017 levels. Police arrested 2531 Rohingya and registered 1220 cases last year, up from 1,628 arrests and 666 cases in 2021. Ruma Paul Sudipto Ganguly reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

For Rohingya, rising crime in Bangladesh camps adds to longstanding troubles like a lack of educational and work opportunities and bleak prospects of returning to military-ruled Myanmar. Story with @reutersruma & Krishna N. Das reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Analysis: Gas shortage exposes fragile South Asian economies to more pain reut.rs/3lT4KLG

In Bangladesh, new school textbook features transgender people reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Bangladesh owner to get $22.48 mln after ship explosion in Ukraine reut.rs/3KIrmZo

Reuters reporters read hundreds of academic papers and interviewed dozens of scientists to learn how deadly viruses spill over from bats to people. Part 2 of The Bat Lands explains how humans have helped one deadly virus get better at that: reuters.com/investigates/s…

Bangladesh struggling to pay for fuel due to dollar shortage, letters show reut.rs/41XTRaC

Exclusive: QatarEnergy to sign long-term LNG supply deal with Bangladesh reut.rs/3MIhr5p

Bangladesh to ratify ship recycling convention in June reut.rs/3otUzik

Bangladesh power cuts may last two more weeks on fuel shortages reut.rs/3P3s3yy

A searing heatwave in Bangladesh spurred the closure of primary schools this week and triggered frequent power cuts, worsening conditions for residents unable to run fans to cool themselves as weather officials warned relief was not imminent. reut.rs/3MKMRby

Bangladesh's worst electricity crisis in a decade reut.rs/3qAdhFj