People look on to the slum that burnt out in Dhaka People look on to the slum that burnt out in Dhaka DHAKA (Reuters) - About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire ...

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.

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bilkis Begum has lived on the lakeside in Dhaka's Korail slum for 16 years, but in December 2016, her extended family's 12 houses were razed to the ground by a ...

Residents of Medical Slum, in Dhaka's Tongi district, watch a community theatre performance on the problems of child marriage and dowry payments. TRF/Laurie Goering DHAKA, April 25 (Thomson Reuters ...

During the 13th national parliamentary election, Dhaka-17’s slum areas, including much-talked Korail slum, witnessed a heavy turnout of voters at two prominent polling centres. The constituency has ...

Special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on an innovative approach for getting water to slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The report is the latest in a series on global population issues in ...

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) - ...