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  • UN praises Bangladeshs preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen UN praises Bangladeshs preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen

    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 partners saved ...

  • 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 ...

  • Turkish Airlines flies US couple to Bangladesh instead Senegal

    Two US holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes. Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. However, instead they ended up about 11,000km away - on an entirely different continent - in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport ...

  • Families of Bangladesh factory workers wait for compensation

    An ITV News investigation has found there's still no compensation for the victims of the Bangladeshi factory collapse, from the Western clothes companies that promised help.More than eleven hundred workers were killed nearly a month ago. But survivors in Dhaka claim no money has yet reached them. ITV's Business Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this exclusive ...

  • A Tale of Two Factory Disasters What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh

    Cambodia , including a pregnant woman, were injured when an outdoor platform where workers took breaks toppled over. The incidents linked two low-income countries whose export-driven garment and footwear industries supplying major international brands were already being discussed together - but as opposites. ...

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The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli

Note: This review contains some plot spoilers, so if you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk. The postapocalyptic genre, with its dour terrain, physical hardships, and frequently nihilistic overtones, is tricky terrain for movie stars to inhabit: While the Ma ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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