Development

News Hour: Considering the rising HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Dhaka, Save the Children introduced one-stop-services through comprehensive drop-in-centers (DICs) to reverse the trend. In this process, PWID is tested for HIV....

News Hour: MenCare launches the 2017 State of the World’s Fathers: Time for Action report, revealing what has stalled progress toward global gender equality and laying out a bold agenda forward for men and boys doing...

News Hour: The Executive Director for BRAC International, Mr Faruque Ahmed visited Liberia from May 9, 2017 to May 12, 2017. During this time, Mr Faruque visited several project sites and met with some of the...

News Hour: Yemen is in the grip of a runaway cholera epidemic that is killing one person nearly every hour and if not contained will threaten the lives of thousands of people in the coming months,...

News Hour: BRAC in Liberia celebrated the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development across the country. All area offices, branch offices and the country office got involved for the occasion. The country office...

News Hour: The UN Migration Agency, has launched an appeal for USD 3.7 million to help Rohingya migrants living in settlements in Bangladesh affected by Cyclone Mora. The storm hit the country’s coastline around Cox’s Bazar...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Yanchang Petroleum Group, and Northwest University for a...

News Hour: Bangladesh has called the developed countries particularly the G7 for meaningful transfer of marine and other technologies to LDCs, expected funding and exploration of new sources of financing to prevent ocean pollution. “The LDCs...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is partnering with governments, communities, and the private sector to help improve the availability and quality of clean and affordable sustainable power in the Pacific region, says a new...

News Hour: Today, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began the dispatch of Chinese rice through the ‘Maritime Silk Road’ to support hundreds of thousands of people in need of food assistance across drought-stricken Somalia....