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  • Exclusive Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts

    GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF ...

  • Factory owner banned from leaving Bangladesh

    DHAKA, Bangladesh // The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities yesterday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said. The High Court made the request in response to a petition seeking the arrest of Delwar Hossain, the owner of Tazreen Fashions Ltd. It also asked authorities to bring Hossain ...

  • Hema Zeeman dont sign Bangladesh textile industry safety deal

    Dutch high street brands Hema, Zeeman, Prenatal and Coolcat have not signed an agreement to improve safety and working conditions for textile workers in Bangladesh, according to the final list of signatories published online. C&A, V&D, G-Star and WE have signed up to ...

  • Garment factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh

    Bangladesh's top court on Sunday ordered police to prevent the owner of a garmentfactory that catered to top Western retailers from leaving the country, six months after 111 of his employees died in a ...

  • Bangladesh court orders action against factory owner in Nov fire

    Delwar Hossain, owner of the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, where 112 workers died in a devastating fire last month, speaks during an interview at the office of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Dhaka November 29, ...

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Breaker Morant

The historical event behind Bruce Beresford's stunning military drama "Breaker Morant" is really nothing more than a minor blip in Australian history, but it contains a wealth of understanding of power, politics, war, and human nature in general. It depicts with painful clarity the confusion that ensues when crass politics and civilized morality are introduced to war, and ho ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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