Bangladesh

Three years after India and Bangladesh exchanged exclaves to simplify the world's most complex border, many who chose to move rather than to change their citizenship find that their prospects are not what they'd hoped.

• By Robin Hemley

A young child stands under a shelter as monsoon rains hit on August 28th, 2018, in Unchiprang refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A Bangladeshi child lights a candle to mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in Dhaka on August 8th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Momin Mohammad, a leather worker, brushes his teeth by a canal near his home in the city's polluted Hazaribagh neighborhood. Each day, tanneries dump 22,000 liters of toxic waste into the Buriganga, the capital city's main river and key water supply.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

As hundreds of thousands of Myanmar muslims seek safety in the country, they have little choice but to overburden the jungles on which their livelihoods depend.

• By Kaamil Ahmed

Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Rohingya Muslim refugees who were stranded after leaving Myanmar walk toward the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on November 2nd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Rohingya Muslim refugees look at the hundreds of tents filling a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhiya district on October 4th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A study in Bangladesh highlights markedly different disease dynamics in the urban core versus the more rural periphery.

• By Nathan Collins

Second generation South Asians in London are well on their way to becoming W.E.I.R.D.

• By Tom Jacobs

An FBI agent offered up confidential information about a political operative’s enemy in exchange for cash—and they both got caught. What were they thinking?

• By Lauren Kirchner

Walmart and Benetton ducked a meeting in Geneva today on restitution.

• By Marc Herman

The garment industry finds that oversight of its far-off contractors is back in fashion. How tightly the industry wants to regulate itself is a matter of style.

• By Michael Todd

After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Walmart released a list of factories it had banned. But it has continued receiving shipments from two of them.

• By Michael Grabell

Sweatshops are great political targets for unions, who have incentives to drive up the price of manufacturing abroad. But better building inspectors is a rare union demand, at least compared to longer break times and higher wages.

• By Marc Herman