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  • Bangladesh online activist calls for ban of Islamists accused of wartime atrocities

    Bangladesh online activist and spokesperson of the Shahbagh's Ganajagaran Mancha, Imran H Sarkar, has called for the banning of country's biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, while blaming it for wartime atrocities committed during the 1971 liberation war. Jamaat, an Islamist ally of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), opposed independence from Pakistan, denied ...

  • Inside a Bangladesh garment factory that plays by the rules

    Set aside for a moment what you think you know about the garment factories in Bangladesh: grimy, sweaty, children sitting in dimly lit, sweltering rooms sewing shirts you buy at your box store for ...

  • Do you know your Dakar from your Dhaka Airline mix-up sends couple 7000 miles off-course to wrong continent

    All irritating, no doubt; but spare a thought for US couple Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo who ended up 7,000 miles from their destination after an airport code mix-up.The couple had planned to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, but instead found themselves 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after their carrier mixed up the airport codes.The bizarre situation resulted in a ...

  • A Bangladesh factory that obeys the rules

    Set aside for a moment what you think you know about the garment factories in Bangladesh: grimy, sweaty, children sitting in dimly lit, sweltering rooms sewing shirts you buy at your box store for ...

  • Bangladesh bosses hail safety deal

    Bangladesh labour activists and manufacturers have welcomed plans by foreign retailers to improve shocking safety standards at garment factories after a disaster which killed over 1,100 workers.The retailers' promise followed last month's collapse of a nine-storey factory complex outside Dhaka that killed 1,127 people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.Labour ...

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The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm is Terry Gilliam's attempt to sell out to the Hollywood establishment by making a fully commercial movie. The fact that it doesn't quite reach sell-out status is a relief, although it isn't vintage Gilliam, either. Instead, it stands awkwardly in the mi ... ...

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  • Teargas used on Dhaka textile workers

    Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers in the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30km outside Dhaka, in this April 26, 2013, file ...

  • Bangladesh has one-month ban on rallies

    Bangladeshi authorities have announced a one-month ban on political rallies to facilitate relief operations after Cyclone Mahasen.'It is not possible to protect the fundamental rights like holding meetings and rallies when the country was hit by a natural disaster,' Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters in the capital Dhaka.The category-one ...

  • 17 killed 30 injured in road accident in Bangladesh

    At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound truck collided head on with the passenger bus, leaving 11 passengers ...

  • Bangladesh garment hub to reopen

    Bangladesh garment manufacturers said they would reopen hundreds of factories in a manufacturing hub outside the capital, days after they shut the plants due to worker unrest following a deadly accident.The manufacturers on Monday announced the shutdown of the factories in the Ashulia industrial area after two weeks of protests over the death of 1,127 garment workers in the country's worst ...

  • Bangladesh Myanmar suffer with cyclone

    A cyclone ripped into the Bangladeshi coast Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters, including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest.Two people died as Cyclone Mahasen hit Bangladesh's southern Patuakhali coast, officials said, while heavy rains and strong winds also lashed neighbouring Myanmar's northwest coast, home to tens of ...

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