Pressure mounts on Myanmar

DHAKA, 18 September 2017: Bangladesh restricted the movement of Rohingya refugees, Saturday, banning them from leaving overcrowded border areas where over 400,000 who have fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar are living in squalid conditions.

The tough new measures came as Dhaka struggled to cope with the scale of the “unprecedented crisis”, with Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina heading for the UN General Assembly to plead for global help.

Conditions are already worsening in Bangladesh’s southeast border district of Cox’s Bazar, where the majority of refugees are living in desperate circumstances after fleeing Myanmar’s violence-wracked Rakhine state. Read more

Mövenpick expands in Bangladesh

BANGKOK, 9 May 2017: Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is set to open a 210-room hotel in Sylhet, northeast Bangladesh, in the third quarter of 2018.

The business and leisure hotel will feature a retail wing and is located in one of Bangladesh’s main commercial and tourism centres in the northeast of the country.

Sylhet is considered one of the most spectacular tourism destinations in Bangladesh, noted for its scenic beauty and tropical forests. Read more