WinTK Editorial Desk
Clear and reliable news from Bangladesh and beyond, with explainers and verified updates published by the WinTK editorial desk.
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.
China permanently banned wildlife trade for food within 54 days of COVID hitting Wuhan. Bangladesh still lacks enforcement on a trade scientists directly link to the next pandemic.
A woman in China ran 49 red lights in her ex's car to rack up fines. The story went global — and opened a window into how social media is reshaping public accountability across South Asia.
Israel struck Iran's nuclear sites in June 2025, collapsing five rounds of US-Iran talks. By December, protests erupted in all 31 provinces. Here's why this matters for Bangladesh and South Asia.
BNP won Bangladesh's February 2026 election with two-thirds majority. Now five simultaneous crises — LDC graduation, US tariffs, Myanmar border, China-US rivalry, and a fragile economy — will define the year.