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Unrest erupts in Bangladesh's troubled garment hub
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| May 20, 2013 11:25 AM |
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Bangladeshi police fire rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of garment workers as they demand a wage hike at a protest in a manufacturing hub outside the capital Dhaka. |
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Bangladesh ban rallies for a month
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| May 19, 2013 03:18 PM |
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Bangladesh slaps a ban on rallies for a month in the wake of deadly protests by Islamists that left dozens of people killed earlier this month. |
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Bangladesh cleans up after killer cyclone
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| Kamrul Hasan Khan | May 17, 2013 10:57 AM |
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Bangladesh and Myanmar clean up after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall. |
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Cyclone rips into Bangladesh after mass evacuations
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| Kamrul Hasan Khan | May 16, 2013 09:47 AM |
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A cyclone rips into the Bangladeshi coast as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters, including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest. |
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Bangladesh bosses, labour hail retailers' safety pledge
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| Shafiq Alam | May 15, 2013 03:55 PM |
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Bangladesh labour activists and garment-makers, relieved clients are staying put despite last month's factory disaster, hail a promise by top retailers to make the country's factories safer. |
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European, U.S. firms split on Bangladesh reforms
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| May 15, 2013 01:31 AM |
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Major U.S. retailers, including Gap Inc., declined to endorse an accord on Bangladesh building and fire safety backed by Europe’s two biggest fashion chains, a trans-Atlantic divide that may dilute garment industry reform efforts. |
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Bangladesh honors the dead from building collapse
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| May 14, 2013 01:04 PM |
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Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry. |
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Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll 1,127
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| Farid Hossain | May 13, 2013 10:35 PM |
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Several major Western brands embraced a safety plan that requires retailers to help pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh, where the three-week search for bodies at the site of the world's worst garment-industry disaster ended Monday with the death toll at 1,127. |
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Bangladesh to end search for collapse victims
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| Farid Hossain | May 13, 2013 02:43 PM |
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Bangladesh's military is ending its search for bodies in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month because no more are expected to be found, officials say. |
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Bangladesh to allow unions for garment workers
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| Farid Hossain | May 13, 2013 11:51 AM |
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Bangladesh has agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions in their factories without prior permission of the owners. |
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Bangladesh to raise garment workers' minimum wages
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| Shafiq Alam | May 12, 2013 04:07 PM |
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Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment workers, a minister says, as tens of thousands protested over poor conditions highlighted by a series of disasters. |
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Bangladesh collapsed building death toll rises to 1,125
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| May 12, 2013 10:06 AM |
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The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rises to 1,125 after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck. |
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Death toll in Bangladesh collapse soars past 1,100
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| May 11, 2013 04:59 PM |
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Police say the death toll from the collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh has soared past 1,100 as recovery operations continue. |
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Finding woman alive lifts Bangladesh rescuers
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| Farid Hossein | May 11, 2013 11:50 AM |
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Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers return to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies. |
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Woman pulled alive from rubble of Bangladesh factory
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| Rafiqur Rahman | May 10, 2013 08:34 PM |
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A young Bangladeshi woman who spent 17 days buried alive under a collapsed garments factory was rescued on Friday when astonished workmen heard a voice calling "save me, save me" from the rubble. |
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