DHAKA, Bangladesh – Large-scale animal sacrifices marking the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha combined with heavy rains have turned the streets of Bangladesh's capital into rivers of blood.

Discussions around street vendors usually begin with accusations of "encroachment." But these lives and livelihoods need to be understood within the wider story of the informal economy and the way our ...

Flooding is a common occurrence because of the poor drainage systems in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an over-crowded city of 10 million people. But the problem has not been so vividly illustrated as it was on ...

Court vacation this year came with an unexpected lesson, not from a courtroom but from the streets of Dhaka — a city that moves, quite literally, on three wheels. Above the traffic, a modern metro ...