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How tastes differ between first-generation migrants and their British-born offspring.
New research shows that the treatment of drug resistant-TB can be reduced from the current duration of 20 to 24 months to less than a year.
Using driverless cars to get from A to B in the future will mean more free time to do other activities – but will people really use it productively?
Promoting Canadian jobs is part of any government’s political mandate, but so too is the responsibility of ensuring that Canadian businesses are not supporting or condoning corruption abroad.
Research suggests the government's dismantling of democracy could cost the country dear.
Sahia and her husband hoped to start a life in Singpur, a village in Bangladesh. But the riverside community found climate change made putting down roots impossible.
Rising seas and groundwater depletion, both driven by climate change, are making soils saltier in many parts of the world. Farmers will need help adapting, especially in developing countries.
Five years on from the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, improvements have been made. But workers compensation is still to happen.
For decades, Bangladesh had a very vibrant – and highly political – rock scene. But the genre is struggling to survive the country's crackdown on dissent and increasing Islamic conservatism.
Young people raised their voices in the streets and online – but a government crackdown seeks to silence them.
Shifting parameters for citizenship are at risk of excluding millions from Indian citizenship.
The Rohingya have long seen Bangladesh as a place of refuge from persecution in Myanmar.
One of the world's worst refugee crises is still unfolding, and conditions on the ground have barely improved.
Better childhood environments linked with higher testosterone levels in later life.
In voicing youthful outrage over inequality and violence, Bangladeshi rappers are creating a powerful form of protest music — just as American MCs have done for 40 years.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assesses the refugee claims of millions of people worldwide. It needs to be more open about what it discovers and how it makes decisions.
Many critics say that fish farms mainly sell their output to wealthy countries and don't provide much benefit to poor people in producing countries. Three aquaculture experts show why this view is wrong.
Vast numbers of Rohingyas in the region are stateless, living in limbo. Therefore, the Rohingya repatriation deal, its terms, delay and successful implementation impacts upon the lives of millions.
The way Bangladesh has taken in Rohingyas stands in stark contrast to Europe, which faced an influx of Syrian refugees in similar numbers. I saw how refugee camps were being run in an efficient manner.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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Professor of Development Economics, University of Malaya
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Research Fellow, Social Policy, University of South Wales
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Lecturer in Global Health at BSMS, University of Sussex and Senior Researcher at UNU-EHS, University of Sussex
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Engaged Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
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Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Institute Associate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Essex
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Assistant professor, International Relations, University of Chittagong
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Assistant Professor in Politics, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in International & Community Development, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
