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  • UN praises Bangladeshs preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen UN praises Bangladeshs preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen

    20 May 2013 150 The United Nations has commended the work carried out by the Bangladeshi Government ahead of tropical storm Mahasen, which hit the country last Thursday, noting it saved thousands of lives. "While tropical storm Mahasen reached the coastline of Bangladesh on Thursday weaker than anticipated, the preparedness work undertaken by the Government and humanitarian partners saved ...

  • Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse

    Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday. The six-member committee, due to submit its conclusions to the government on Thursday, has singled out shoddy construction and the improper issue of building permits as the main reasons for the accident which killed more than 1,100 ...

  • Bangladesh gets $324-mln credit facility from Philippine firm

    DHAKA, May 21 (Reuters) - State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has received a $324-million, six-month deferred payment facility for oil from the Philippines National Oil Company (PNOC), a BPC official said on Tuesday. The South Asian nation's fuel demand is growing sharply after a shortage of natural gas forced it to turn to oil-fired power plants to avert power ...

  • Video Families of Bangladesh factory workers wait for compensation

    An ITV News investigation has found there's still no compensation for the victims of the Bangladeshi factory collapse, from the Western clothes companies that promised help.More than eleven hundred workers were killed nearly a month ago. But survivors in Dhaka claim no money has yet reached them. ITV's Business Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this exclusive ...

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Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia

In Julia & Julia, the ever-impressive Meryl Streep pulls off another of her unlikely highwire acting feats by embodying the immediately recognizable chef Julia Child, a pre-Food Network PBS mainstay in the 1960s and 1970s who introduced Americans to French cooking and ... ...

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  • Its Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

    The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in April, the world's worst garment industry catastrophe which killed over 1,000 people, has sparked intensive debate over who is to blame for the ...

  • Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest

    , Karl Johan Persson, the CEO of the Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), said that the company is looking for locations in Central and South America or in Africa. The Hasina government faces a massive political crisis as working class opposition deepens. It is desperately trying to deflect discontent among workers and maintain cheap labour conditions. About 3.7 million workers, mostly young women, ...

  • Gap stance on Bangladesh draws protest

    "I own Gap clothing and I don't think it's acceptable that this is the cost," Mandavilli said. Protesters like Mandavilli are being galvanized into action by labor and socially conscious groups in the wake of the deadly ...

  • Why Im protesting against Gap over Bangladesh

    "I own Gap clothing and I don't think it's acceptable that this is the cost," Mandavilli said. Protesters like Mandavilli are being galvanized into action by labor and socially conscious groups in the wake of the deadly ...

  • Proposed reforms in Bangladesh labour laws unduly benefit employers

    The proposed amendment to Sri Lanka's labour law, expected to be finalised in June, claims to bring changes for workers--for the better. In reality, many of its provisions will have a contrary effect, particularly on those in the garment sector."In many important areas, the employers are being given undue benefits over the interests of workers," said AKM Nasim, senior legal ...

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