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Chinese vloggers line the narrow streets of Techpara, filming for hours with iPhones fitted with cooling fans. Photos: Mehedi Hasan

What are Uttara's Chinese vloggers up to?

A group of Chinese nationals have been spotted filming in narrow lanes, slums, and even inside people's homes for months in Techpara, Uttara — but nobody, including local police, seems to know...

Silence must end

Silence must end

Ishmam Chowdhury (left) and Raiyaan Ehab Shams (right). Sketch: TBS

Beton Kemon: Bangladesh’s first anonymous salary transparency platform giving job-seekers an edge

Illustration: TBS

Universities in the age of AI: The tension between trust, competence and surveillance

The goal for the next decade is to ensure women farmers thrive in a sustainable, high-tech economy. Photo: COURTESY

Empowering the green shield: How women farmers are steering Bangladesh’s food security

Sajib Sheikh now produces between 700 and 800 plush dolls a day at his factory in Kamrangirchar. Photos: Mehedi Hasan

How a doll-maker rebuilt his plush toy empire after losing it to Covid-19 

Illustration: TBS

Water as a weapon: From Farakka to the Himalayas, South Asia’s new geopolitical tool

Raul Castro is older, frailer, but more symbolic and more strategically difficult to remove. Photo: REUTERS

Will Raúl Castro be the next Maduro?

A cat perches on its owner's shoulder. Photo: Courtesy

How pet ownership got easier for urban Bangladesh

Kurdish militant groups are spread across parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Photo: DW

Iran war: Why is Trump blaming the Kurds?

Illustration: Freepik

Fear and anxiety of parenthood: When children's safety no longer feels certain

Large stacks of freshly cut timber lie scattered across the slopes of Dim Pahar. Photos: U She Thowai Marma

Forest felled, streams buried: Illegal timber trade devastates Bandarban’s Dim Pahar

After 17 days at sea, the migrants reach the Thai coast, where traffickers transfer them onto smaller speedboats and move them deep into the surrounding hill forests near the border. Photo: Reuters

As legal migration to Malaysia stalls, desperate Bangladeshis turn to deadly sea routes