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  • US delegation to urge labour reforms in Bangladesh US delegation to urge labour reforms in Bangladesh

    DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...

  • Kolkata hosts meet to enhance bilateral trade ties with Bangladesh

    Kolkata recently hosted a meeting on Tuesday to discuss measures that needs to be taken to increase cross border trade with Bangladesh. Amit Kumar Roy, Commissioner of Customs said that expectations were high as India considered Bangladesh a friendly and compliant neighbour. "Compared to other countries, compared to Pakistan etc, Bangladesh is very friendly and very compliant. They are very ...

  • Video Undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory

    Many of the clothes sold in American stores come from factories in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Following the factory collapse last month that killed over 1,000 people, Holly Williams went undercover to see what the conditions are really ...

  • British firms face ethical dilemmas in Bangladesh

    For the first time, Tesco, one of the largest retailers in the world, opened the doors to its factory in Bangladesh. ITV News visited a production center said to be ethically run. It manufactures many of the 40 million garments made in Bangladesh every year for the supermarket giant Tesco. ITV's Laura Kuennsberg ...

  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh

    - Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...

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Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation

John D. Hancocks low-budget Suspended Animation is a wild, weird, sometimes fascinating, but more often head-scratching horror-thriller thats been running the festival circuit for the past two years and has finally scored a theatrical release just in time for Halloween. Scripted by his wife, Dorothy Tristan, who based it on her own unpublished novel, Suspended Animation is the kind ... ...

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  • Report on Bangladesh Building Collapse Finds Widespread Blame

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  • Bangladesh building collapse owner blamed

    THE head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex says the building's owner was the "main culprit" for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the nine-storey Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed more than 1100 workers in the country's worst industrial disaster. "He (owner Sohel Rana) is the main ...

  • Bangladesh panel blames building owner for disaster

    The head of an official inquiry into the collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building's owner was the "main culprit" in the disaster because he violated building ...

  • Bangladeshi volunteers haunted by rescue trauma

    SAVAR, Bangladesh (AFP) - Mamun was hailed a hero for pulling survivors from the ruins of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory complex but now he struggles to sleep, haunted by the memory of sawing off a young woman's hand."I had never even touched the hand of a woman before but it was the only way to save her and the others," said the 22-year-old in an interview ahead of the ...

  • US to push for major factory safety reforms in Bangladesh

    A US government delegation will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of factory safety following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said ...

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