An 11-hour standoff with alleged Islamic militants at an upscale bakery in Dhaka broke Saturday morning when Bangladeshi troops stormed the premises. Of the roughly three dozen hostages held at the café, offices found 20 had been killed in one of the deadliest terror attacks the country has seen, CNN reports.

A Japanese man, Kunio Hoshi, was shot and killed Saturday near Rangpur, in northern Bangladesh, five days after an Italian man, Cesare Tavella, was murdered in the capital Dhaka’s diplomatic zone, The Guardian reports. The Islamic State took responsibility for both murders.

According to the BBC, six suspected tiger poachers were killed in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans forest on Sunday during a gunfight with police. Authorities reportedly began cracking down on poaching after a recent survey found just 106 tigers left in the forest, down from 440 animals 10 years ago.

Police say a clothing giveaway in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, a city north of the capital, ended in the deaths of at least 20 people on Friday when a stampede broke out among hundreds of people trying to rush through narrow factory doors in order to get free clothing.

Bangladeshi authorities have charged 42 people with murder in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers. If we see an international minimum wage in our lifetime, they won’t have died in vain.

On Sunday, Malaysian authorities said they had discovered a series of mass graves in abandoned camps, used by human traffickers, along the country’s border with Thailand, the Associated Press reports. Police in Thailand made a similar discovery earlier this month.

Avijit Roy, an atheist American-Bangladeshi writer, was brutally murdered in the streets of Dhaka on Thursday while returning home from a book fair with his wife. Roy had written frequently against religious fundamentalism on his blog Mukto-Mona, which means Free Mind.

A river ferry capsized after being hit by a cargo vessel in central Bangladesh on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. Officials said least 48 bodies have been recovered.

Italian clothing brand Benetton has vowed to contribute money to a trust that will benefit the victims and families of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013. Benetton had previously been skeptical of the Rana Plaza Donors Trust, saying that there wasn't a system in place to properly aid victims.

A ship heading for Malaysia was intercepted by the Bangladeshi Navy on Monday, officials said, after it was discovered that the ship was harboring over 600 trafficking victims. It was then directed to the port of Chittagong by Tuesday night.

Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam has a heartbreaking editorial on Bangladesh's dismally maintained, murderous roads and waterways in today's Times: As she details, using WHO stats, at least 17,000 people die a year on Bangladesh's roads, not always while they're in vehicles.

Flooding during Bangladesh's yearly summer monsoon season has forced 500,000 residents into homelessness and caused scores more to lose their crops. Streets throughout the northern area of the country have reportedly been swept away.

Over 100 people are missing and presumed dead after a ferry crossing the Padma River in central Bangladesh capsized Monday morning. Local media outlets estimate that there were at least 250 people on board when bad weather struck the river, causing the vessel to overturn.

A woman who was trapped in last year's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 people and injured more than 2,400, now tells the story of having to amputate her own arm to escape the rubble.

A storm in central Bangladesh caused a loaded ferry to sink in the River Meghna near Munshiganj on Thursday after the ferry's captain reportedly didn't heed passengers' warnings to steer closer to shore. The bodies of 54 passengers have been found, while police fear over 100 bodies are still unaccounted for.

The collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh last April— which killed more than 1,000 people— sparked a slew of promises from major retailers to reform their sourcing standards and increase safety. But as it stands today, that doesn't seem to be anywhere near happening.

In the wake of April's horrific garment factory collapse, in which 1,129 people died, the Obama administration plans on suspending trade benefits to Bangladesh, raising duties on goods like tobacco, plastics and some textiles.

A government investigation in Bangladesh found that last month's deadly garment factory collapse was caused by “extremely poor quality” construction materials and various building code violations, including the addition of two illegal floors.

The ceiling of a shoe factory in Cambodia collapsed this morning, killing two and injuring several (some sources are reporting three killed). This just a day after the search for survivors of the building collapse that killed over a thousand people in Bangladesh last month was called off.

The search for survivors of the building collapse that killed over a thousand people last month and (once again) brought the world's attention to the horrible working conditions of the Bangladeshi garment industry, has ended. Officials announced earlier this week that there were no more bodies to be found in the debris.