In the latest attack on the minority, an elderly Hindu ashram worker was hacked to death by suspected Islamists in Bangladesh

The Chinese feel Taiwan's new President Tsai Ing-wen practices "emotional" and "extreme" politics because she is a single woman without children.

A Hindu businessman was hacked to death in Bangladesh after he allegedly refused to pay extortion money to drug addicts.

A Hindu school headmaster was beaten up and made to do sit ups in front of a local lawmaker for allegedly making deprecating statement against Islam.

An elderly Buddhist monk was found hacked to death in Bangladesh, the latest in the string of murders of religious minorities and secular activists in the Muslim-majority region.

India has concluded a nuclear agreement with Bangladesh in a sign that the bilateral neighbourhood relationship is becoming special. The core of the new engagement is all 21st century - energy, connectivity, security.

Bangladesh has hanged Islamist party leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan

A Hindu tailor was hacked to death by machete-wielding Islamic State militants in his shop in central Bangladesh.

Bangladesh high court has rejected a petition sent by secular activists challenging the constitutional provision that recognises Islam as the state religion of the Muslim-majority nation

 Mahfuz Anam, the editor of Bangladesh's most popular English language newspaper, has been facing 79 legal cases - 62 for defamation and 17 for sedition.