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  • Legacy of cruelty by Islamists should end Bangladesh educationist

    Bangladesh educationist Azad Chowdhury called for the banning of the country's biggest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and blamed the organisation for misusing Islam and committing the wartime atrocities during the 1971 liberation war. In an interview, Chowdhury blamed the Jamaat for butchering intellectuals in huge numbers. "Jamaat is an organized party, they had a legacy of this sort of ...

  • Sub-standard construction material led to Bangladesh building collapse says govt report

    A Bangladesh Government report into the collapse of a multi-storied factory building has uncovered a series of violations. The report revealed that the building had been constructed with sub-standard materials on unsuitable land. According to the BBC, it also recommended life sentences for the building's owner and the owners of five garment factories operating there. The Rana Plaza collapse ...

  • In Bangladesh owner under scrutiny in deadly collapse

    More than a thousand people died because of one man - as an official inquiry into last month's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh blamed the owner for violating building codes. Many of the victims are now seeking compensation. But some workers might not receive a penny. It's been reported that their ID cards were confiscated when they got their final pay packets. ITV's ...

  • Reporters notebook Going undercover inside 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 ...

  • Girl Scouts Lemonade Day success reaching Bangladesh

    Contributed photo Mayor Nelda Martinez pours water for a batch of lemonade on May 5 at the stand operated by Girl Scout Elizabeth Schmidt and her friend Justin Kar. Chamber of Commerce Director Foster Edwards looks on. The stand’s $446 profit is being donated to Justin’s uncle to help pay for removal of a brain ...

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Men in Black II

Men in Black II

The enormous success of 1997's Men in Black was due largely to its consistent ability to surprise us at every turn. An inventive comedy-thriller that made hash of paranoid conspiracy theories and science fiction tropes, it was a geek-dream summer movie, one you could laugh at and be thrilled by at the same time. There was always something either funny or bizarre (or both) around every corn ... ...

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  • Buddhists from Bangladesh resettle in Myanmar Rohingya Muslims cry foul

    Minority Rohingya Muslims who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists in Myanmar, say Buddhist families from Bangladesh are now being resettled on their ...

  • Bangladesh RMG Sector-should be win-win situation for all

    Professor Abdul Mannan. After the Savar’s Rana Plaza disaster and 1127 ready-made garments workers death in five garments factories located in the building there has been flurry of activities around the world, mostly condemning the Bangladesh Ready Made Garments’ Manufacturers, the Government and other relevant trade bodies for not overseeing the safety issues of approximately 4 ...

  • Survivor of Bangladesh factory building collapse speaks out

    (CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- When she was 11 years old, Tahmina Akhter Sadia went to work in a garment factory. Four years later, she's her family's breadwinner -- and a survivor of one of the worst industrial accidents in ...

  • Life Terms Urged in Bangladesh Building Collapse

    DOHA, May 23 2013 (Al Jazeera) - Those responsible for the Bangladesh building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers should be given life in prison, a government-appointed committee has ...

  • 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 ...

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