WinTK Editorial Desk
Clear and reliable news from Bangladesh and beyond, with explainers and verified updates published by the WINTK editorial desk.
Bangladesh recorded a 202% surge in net FDI in Q3 2025, with cumulative inflows reaching $1.41 billion for January–September. The rebound signals investor confidence — but structural barriers and LDC graduation in November 2026 define how durable the trend becomes.
Bangladesh hit 17.4 million air passengers in 2023 — 37% above pre-COVID levels — while Biman posted its highest-ever profit. But foreign carriers still control 80% of the market.
In August 2020, Berlin courts protected 38,000 anti-lockdown protesters' right to assemble. That same year, Bangladesh's Digital Security Act was used to detain writer Mushtaq Ahmed — who died in prison 296 days later, never tried. What the contrast means for Bangladesh's civil liberties today.
Bangladesh went from 4% double-dose COVID coverage to 78.86% in 18 months — while the US lost measles elimination status in 2025 and 14.5 million infants globally missed routine vaccines in 2024. What Bangladesh did right, and what the world is getting wrong.
Bangladesh gave ivermectin emergency approval while millions self-medicated with Tk 10 tablets — then recorded 17,147 deaths in five months. How hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and local folk remedies defined South Asia's pandemic misinformation crisis.
Muhammad Yunus chose Beijing for his first bilateral visit, securing $2.1 billion in March 2025 as total Chinese investment reached $42 billion. What BRI has built in Bangladesh — and what the $7 billion debt, Mongla Port strategy, and Teesta project actually mean.
GameStop surged 1,600% in January 2021 when Reddit's WallStreetBets organized a short squeeze that wiped out hedge funds. Five years on, Dhaka's retail investors are chasing the same energy — through Facebook groups, fake trading apps, and a market regulators can barely control.
Bangladesh went from one COVID lab to a 64-district PCR network in twelve months — and produced peer-reviewed science on what worked. The harder question is what the governance gaps it exposed mean for the next pandemic.
Bangladesh hosts over one million Rohingya refugees while repatriation remains stalled and funding falls 50% short. Meanwhile the EU just designated Bangladesh a "safe country of origin.
Three out of four women in Bangladesh have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetime. A landmark 2024 national survey confirms the scale — and a reform commission's 433 recommendations are now facing political fire.
Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May 2024. Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won the snap election that followed — and then Iran and Israel fought a twelve-day war that sent oil prices surging and put Bangladesh's economy directly in the crossfire.
Dr. Li Wenliang was forced to sign a letter calling his COVID warning "illegal behavior" on January 3, 2020. In Bangladesh, writer Mushtaq Ahmed died in custody nine months after being arrested for criticizing the government's pandemic response on Facebook.