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  • Reporters notebook Undercover in a Bangladesh garment factory

    (CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Getting inside a garment factory in Bangladesh isn't easy. It's an enormous industry. There are more than 4,000 factories, employing an estimated 4 million people. Garments and textiles make up about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export ...

  • Sweating Bangladesh Surveyor Races to Avoid Next Tragedy

    Bangladesh is struggling to conduct even a crude assessment of the country's garment factories. To appreciate the Sisyphean task, spend a day with Mohammed Helal Ahmed, a 42-year-old-civil engineer in the Dhaka city government, as he struggles through cursory factory inspections. His day starts with a decrepit government car that breaks down and a list of misspelled factory names ...

  • Bangladesh collapse search over after 1127 died

    Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended yesterday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll hit 1,127. Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense, said search for bodies from the April 24 collapse was called off at 6pm. Bulldozers and other ...

  • Cyclone Mahasen washes away US$35.2m of crops in Bangladesh

    Cyclone Mahasen has damaged crops worth 2.75 Bangladeshi taka (US$35.2 million), hurting hundreds of farmers in the southern districts.Aus seedlings, sesame seeds, green chilli, mung beans, peanuts, vegetables, sunflower and various other crops were damaged as fields were submerged by heavy rains and water logging, farmers and officials of Department of Agricultural Extension said.The cyclone ...

  • Bangladesh opposition urges govt for talks

    The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the Bangladesh government to hold a dialogue with it on formation of an election-time bipartisan neutral government.In a press statement on Thursday evening, BNP said the government should take the initiative "in the interest of peaceful handover of power through a participatory and competitive national election."The ...

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Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) [DVD]

Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) [DVD]

Last Year at Marienbad (Lanne dernire Marienbad), the second feature film directed by the great French New Wave pioneer Alain Resnais and the first written by famed novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, is more than anything designed to provoke a response. When it was first ... ...

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  • EU warns Bangladesh of withdrawing duty-free access

    The European Parliament in a resolution yesterday said Bangladesh's duty and quota-free access to the EU market can be withdrawn in the event of serious and systematic violations of the principles set out in different human rights conventions.Members of European Parliament (MEPs) called on the European Commission to investigate the country's compliance with these conventions.They ...

  • Dhaka deluged in downpour

    Just a few hours of torrential rain pushed much of the capital city Dhaka to ankle to waist-deep water, causing immense sufferings to the city dwellers yesterday.Two pedestrians died of electrocution when they stepped on a snapped electric cable in the waterlogged street at Bangsal in the old town.In Uttara, a mother and her five-month-old baby died in their sleep when a wall collapsed on their ...

  • Bangladesh plans to filter internet contents

    The Bangladesh government is going to install a filter for sensitive content at the internet gateways of the country which would hamper free flow of information.The filter would be effective for all data passing through gateways and sites like Facebook, Twitter and different blogs. Even news websites could be affected.At a conference at Dubai in December, the International Telecommunication ...

  • EU threatens action over Bangladesh working conditions

    Bangladesh unless it sees an improvement in the country's working conditions following the collapse last month of a building housing a number of garment ...

  • Video Victim of Bangladesh factory collapse shares story

    A teenager who survived the massive Bangladesh factory collapse says she was afraid to go to work the day of the incident. Those who try to improve working conditions face retaliation. Holly Williams ...

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