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  • Bangladesh online activist calls for ban of Islamists accused of wartime atrocities

    Bangladesh online activist and spokesperson of the Shahbagh's Ganajagaran Mancha, Imran H Sarkar, has called for the banning of country's biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, while blaming it for wartime atrocities committed during the 1971 liberation war. Jamaat, an Islamist ally of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), opposed independence from Pakistan, denied ...

  • HM Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Collapse Killing 1100

    a new $3 billion fund to improve the safety of garment factories in Bangladesh . Watchdog organizations say the companies acted only because of external pressure by activists and workers. The announcement came weeks after Rana Plaza, a building that housed five garment factories, collapsed in Bangladesh last month leaving over 1,100 dead. While H&M was not among the many international ...

  • Bangladeshs exports grow to USD21.78b in 10 months

    (MENAFN) Bangladesh's Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) announced that the country's income of exports of goods rose by more than 10 percent during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, reaching USD21.78 billion, reported Xinhua News.An official at EPB said that the figure is compared with USD17.77 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier.He added that in the July-April ...

  • Picture Archive Bangladesh 1950s

    a collapsed textile factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh --the largest garment-industry disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of other textile factories in Bangladesh reopened Friday after shuttering earlier in the week in response to worker protests over poor pay and unsafe ...

  • UN praises Bangladesh39s preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen

    Print 20 May 2013 &#150 The United Nations has commended the work carried out by the Bangladeshi Government ahead of tropical storm Mahasen, which hit the country last Thursday, noting it saved thousands of lives. 'While tropical storm Mahasen reached the coastline of Bangladesh on Thursday weaker than anticipated, the preparedness work undertaken by the Government and humanitarian ...

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The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm is Terry Gilliam's attempt to sell out to the Hollywood establishment by making a fully commercial movie. The fact that it doesn't quite reach sell-out status is a relief, although it isn't vintage Gilliam, either. Instead, it stands awkwardly in the mi ... ...

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  • Hizb ut-Tahrir Protests against Tyrants of Bangladesh Khilafah will soon Avenge Your Crimes

    Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan demonstrated against the Bangladeshi regime's firing and slaughtering of Muslims on 6th May 2013 as they rose up over blasphemy against RasulAllah ??? ???? ???? ????. Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan also delivered a letter of protest to the Bangladeshi diplomatic mission. Demonstrators were holding banners and placards ...

  • Inside a Bangladesh garment factory that plays by the rules

    Set aside for a moment what you think you know about the garment factories in Bangladesh: grimy, sweaty, children sitting in dimly lit, sweltering rooms sewing shirts you buy at your box store for ...

  • Do you know your Dakar from your Dhaka Airline mix-up sends couple 7000 miles off-course to wrong continent

    All irritating, no doubt; but spare a thought for US couple Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo who ended up 7,000 miles from their destination after an airport code mix-up.The couple had planned to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, but instead found themselves 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after their carrier mixed up the airport codes.The bizarre situation resulted in a ...

  • A Bangladesh factory that obeys the rules

    Set aside for a moment what you think you know about the garment factories in Bangladesh: grimy, sweaty, children sitting in dimly lit, sweltering rooms sewing shirts you buy at your box store for ...

  • Bangladesh bosses hail safety deal

    Bangladesh labour activists and manufacturers have welcomed plans by foreign retailers to improve shocking safety standards at garment factories after a disaster which killed over 1,100 workers.The retailers' promise followed last month's collapse of a nine-storey factory complex outside Dhaka that killed 1,127 people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.Labour ...

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