Download  After water, tea is the world’s most popular drink.

The highlands of Bangladesh have been producing tea for over 150 years, but the profits at the expense of slave-like conditions for the workers has long been the subject of controversy and conflict.

In this two part series, reporter Ric Wasserman journeys to the plantations in northeast Bangladesh to gain a rare insight into the tea estates.

Download   The Royal Bengal Tiger of Sundarbans may join the arctic polar bear as early victims of climate change-induced habitat loss.

One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund led study.

Shakil Ahmed travelled to this remote area to see first hand the changing environment.

Download   The use of toxic chemicals to hasten the ripening of green fruits, especially mangoes and bananas, is causing alarm in Bangladesh.

While the practice is banned in most countries, unscrupulous traders in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are putting the health of millions of people at risk.

The Bangladesh government is now trying to rid the markets once and for all of tainted fruit.

Our reporter in Bangladesh, Ric Wasserman, has the story.

Download   Recently on Asia Calling we heard how a group of Bangladesh nurses threaten to burn themselves alive if their demands for employment weren’t met.

At the last minute, the Minister of Health promised to address their grievances and they went home...still without jobs.

But while the striking unemployed nurses have gone home, they haven’t given up the cause.

Bangladesh Ric Wasserman investigates the causes of the nurses’ strike and began by taking a look inside one of the country’s hospitals.