The US Agency for International Development USAID has redirected $42.4 million of assistance to support and strengthen civil society in Myanmar instead of supporting the military government.

The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to assist the country's fight against COVID-19.  

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday with a consortium of US retail, apparel, and footwear companies and industry associations to pursue much-needed relief to the predominantly female workers in their supply-chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

The US government on Tuesday announced a commitment of $37 million in financing for 25 countries including Bangladesh which are either affected by novel coronavirus COVID-19 or at high risk of its spread.