Hong Kong’s leader defended her administration’s use of “ambush lockdowns” yesterday after a spate of overnight operations to conduct surprise mandatory coronavirus tests uncovered no new cases.

A Chinese lawyer nominated for a top human rights award is in poor health after years in prison, his wife told AFP yesterday.

China has rebuffed the latest offer of talks from Taiwan, saying the government was engaging in a “cheap trick” and provocation, claiming the island was seeking confrontation with China at every turn.

A Uighur Muslim doctor has been jailed on terrorism charges, Beijing confirmed yesterday, a day after her family told US politicians she had been sentenced to 20 years.

China considers Bangladesh as an important partner in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, Chinese President Xi Jinping says.

Initially seeking the finance minister and Bangladesh Bank governor's resignation over the around $100 million of the central bank being stolen by hackers recently, BNP yesterday demanded that the prime minster do the same shouldering the responsibility.

Police have identified the individual who threatened Professor Anisuzzaman with life, chief of the force AKM Shahidul Haque says.

In the wake of deadly gun and bomb attacks in Paris, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said Bangladesh is now on high alert to tackle any possible terror attack.

Industrialist Kazi Tajul Islam Farooq, 60, is killed when a truck hit him on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Habiganj Sadar upazila.

Erosion by the Padma River has taken a serious turn in Harirampur upazila under the district.

Police arrested three people with 1,000 Yaba tablets, 27 bottles of phensidyl and one pistol at Dhulirpar village in Daudkandi upazila of

Pabna regional chief of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is arrested from Tebunia of the district, law enforcers claim.

A local Jubo League activist is hacked to death by miscreants at Showani Togba village in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali today morning.

When law keepers are the ones breaking the law, the general people might be encouraged to do the same.

At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League over formation of Kashinathpur union unit committee of BCL in Santhia upazila of the district yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says there was a plot to tarnish Bangladesh’s image through creating a situation in the country with the "foreigner" killings.

Over 2500 people of Hatibandha and Lalmonirhat Sadar upazilas, hit by Teesta and Dharla erosion, have been living under the open sky

Law enforcers pick up two suspects -- Nahid and Shahriar -- in killing of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio from Rajshahi city.

Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed hopes that he will get "justice" after he seeks review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.

A housewife burnt her baby to death and attempted the same on herself yesterday, allegedly failing to bear with the torture inflicted by