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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies—normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes—to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the

Schools around the country are struggling to fill vacancies, and Maine schools are having mixed success.

Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought ...

DHAKA — Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 per cent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers say are among the lowest in the world.Most tea workers in the overwhelmingly Muslim country are low-caste Hindus, the descendants of labourers brought to the plantations by colonial-era British

Schools around the country are struggling to fill vacancies, and Maine schools are having mixed success.

Some 150,000 workers at over 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations hold a strike against dollar-a-day wages.

The Ministry of National Development Planning has said that youth development is continuously being strengthened to create quality human resources in ...

DHAKA: Ethnic minorities have been undercounted in Bangladesh’s latest census, Indigenous activists said on Thursday, with implications for some of the poorest people in the...

In one of the largest follow-up studies to date, involving 25 pediatric hospitals, more than a quarter of children and adolescents hospitalized with coronavirus infection early in the pandemic still had health problems two to four months later, either persisting symptoms or activity impairment. The study, led by Boston Children's Hospital, is published August 12 in the journal Pediatrics.

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture continues to encourage the optimization of mental health services to support improvement in the ...