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Bangladesh approves trade agreement with US after over a decade of talks

After more than a decade of talks, the Bangladeshi government yesterday finally gave the go-ahead to the signing of a crucial deal that is expected to accelerate trade and investment with the US. The draft Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) that the cabinet yesterday approved says the two countries will foster an open and predictable environment for trade and investment. ...
Contaminated water suspected as 140 Bangladeshi garment workers become ill

Over 140 workers from two garment factories near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have taken ill. It is suspected that the illnesses were caused by contaminated drinking ...
Most US Retailers Choose Not to Sign Bangladesh Factory Accord

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Top cricketers threaten to pull out of Dhaka league

Top cricketers in Bangladesh have threatened to "stay away" from this season's Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League after the BCB proposed a change in the players' transfer system. The Dhaka Premier League is a city-based domestic one-day competition and is the country's most popular ...
Mass hysteria outbreaks hit Bangladeshs garment workers

Doctors say 'mass psychogenic illness' - not contaminated water - is to blame for recent outbreaks of sickness. Garment workers are fearful of workplace safety after a year of deadly ...

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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs receives the Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh

Manama: June 17 -- (BNA)-- The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, HE. Mr. Ghanim bin Fadhl Al-Buainain, received today afternoon the Ambassador of the People's Republic of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Mr. Mohammed Ali Akbar. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs discussed the friendly ties between the two friendly countries and peoples, praising the progress of ...
Dhaka police open fire on garment factory workers demanding pay and safety

(15 mins ago) Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of garment workers protesting for better benefits in the capital Dhaka. The clashes occurred in Dhaka's Tejgaon industrial area after about 5,000 workers from Utah Fashions went on the rampage when they found the owners had closed the factory rejecting their demand for a rise in lunch and attendance bills, AFP ...
Bangladeshi freed after kidnap by countrymen in Lebanon

BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities rescued a Bangladeshi worker after he was kidnapped by three of his countrymen to demand a ransom, a security source said ...
Weekly closer of Indian LCS ruining Indo-Bangla trade

West Bengal border closed on every Friday, the official weekly holiday in Bangladesh. The weekly closer is eating up a large chunk of the bilateral trade worth around INR 2750 crore per month between the two south Asian neighbours and ruining good amount of Government revenue. Following many unfruitful persuasions, ...
Susan Ormiston Dying for cheap clothes lessons of the Bangladesh disaster

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Global warming sees Bangladesh river destroying villages

It is time for Mohammed Qader of Bahuka village in Sirajganj district to move again. For the seventh time in the last 20 years that he has been residing in Bahuka, Qader will be forced to rebuild his life from scratch as the mighty Jamuna river continues to erode its banks and destroy everything in its wake - all thanks to global warming.

According to inhabitants of Bahuka, 110 km northwest of Bangladesh capital Dhaka, the Jamuna has swallowed 10 embankments - artificial banks built above the level of the original banks to hold back excess water - and with it all buildings built on the banks, since 1968.

"This has been going on for years. The Jamuna breaches the banks throughout the year and this has accelerated in recent times," the 56-year-old Qader told a visiting IANS correspondent.

Mashfiqus Salehin, professor at the Institute of Water and Flood Management in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, said the constant shifting of Bahuka's residents is not uncommon since erosion is a "very big" issue in the region.

"Because of the flood and erosion problems, they have to shift to a higher elevation. For an adult to shift 6 to 10 times in his lifetime is not very unusual," Salehin said. ...