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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

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Hidalgo

Hidalgo

Hidalgo has much in common with Edward Zwicks The Last Samurai, as both are set near the end of the 19th century and are about Americans who, resentful of their governments treatment of Native Americans, find personal redemption in the East. While Tom Cruises Nathan ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Do shoppers feel guilty about Bangladesh

    Fair trade labels might help consumers decide on ethical purchases The hottest date at the global retail real estate conference that starts Sunday in Las Vegas is Uniqlo. That's because Uniqlo is one of the three "big hitters" in retail right now, says Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Douglas Elliman Real Estate's retail group, along with Sweden-based chain H&M and British ...

  • A visual explanation of the factory safety plan in Bangladesh

    Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (pdf) lays out a new factory inspection program and calls for companies that sign to underwrite any renovations needed to bring their suppliers up to established safety standards. Here is a visual explanation of the accord: More from ...

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