What Bangladesh – and US retailers – must do to prevent man-made tragedies
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-16 22:45:48 -0700 | political-news
What Bangladesh and US retailers must do to prevent man-made tragedies Two man-made tragedies have shaken Bangladesh recently: riots over Islamist demands for blasphemy laws and the garment factory collapse. Bangladesh's response to both will show how well it can meet...
Walmart checks Bangladesh factories; retailer accord elusive
Source: Chicago Tribune
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-15 05:52:35 -0700 | political-news
Wal-Mart Stores Inc( WMT.N ) stepped up Bangladesh factory inspections while U.S. and European retailers pursued separate accords to try to prevent another disaster in a garment industry where more than 1,200 workers have died in the past six months....
Kristallnacht of the fascists in Dhaka
Source: The Milli Gazette
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 12:01:09 -0700 | political-news
It is was used by Hitler to take over total control of the German State and lead it to the eventual destruction we all know. The fascist regime of Khalid Wajed tried the same in the night of 5-6 May...
Who pays for that $12 t-shirt?
Source: Boston Globe
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 10:33:56 -0700 | political-news
Invalid email address Add a personal message: Your e-mail: Invalid email address Sending your article Your article has been sent...The collapse of a Bangladesh factory last month, which killed more than 1,100 workers, shone a spotlight on the often-brutal working...
Headlines for May 14, 2013
Source: Democracy Now
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 17:17:43 -0700 | political-news
You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. download: Obama Admin Secretly Obtains Trove of Associated Press Phone Records in "Unprecedented intrusion" The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove...
It's the Economy: Economic Recovery, Made in Bangladesh?
Source: International Herald Tribune
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 02:15:40 -0700 | political-news
May 14, 2013 A couple of years ago, I was in an industrial park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a textiles executive pitched me on becoming a rich T-shirt manufacturer. It was easy, he said, to teach basic sewing to even...
Bangladesh building collapse: An end to recovery efforts, a promise of a new start
Source: World News
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 02:52:02 -0700 | political-news
Across from the detritus of Bangladesh's deadliest industrial disaster, up four flights of narrow stairs, and inside the makeshift offices of the recovery operations, stands a dry erase board that marks, in neat black handwriting, each life a nine-story building...
Burma Evacuating Camps Ahead of Cyclone
Source: Myanmar News
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 05:38:17 -0700 | political-news
Hundreds died in that violence and tens of thousands of others were left homeless, mostly ethnic Rohingya Muslims. Weather forecasters predict that Cyclone Mahasen will hit land in neighboring Bangladesh later this week. However, they say heavy rains and winds...
Bangladesh: Dialogue Vital for Peaceful, Credible Polls
Source: Scoop
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 05:39:26 -0700 | political-news
Political Dialogue Vital to Enable Peaceful, Credible Polls In Bangladesh UN Official A senior United Nations official today stressed the urgent need for more meaningful and constructive political dialogue in Bangladesh to create conducive conditions for the holding of peaceful...
Labor Ministry understaffed
Source: Arab News
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 16:54:00 -0700 | political-news
Tuesday 14 May 2013 Last Update 14 May 2013 1:51 am The Labor Ministry is grappling with a severe shortage of personnel that threatens the smooth operation of the Kingdom's largest labor reform package in the country's history...In Jeddah, the...
Sight Of Coworkers' Stupid Fucking Faces Endured Yet Again
Source: The Onion
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 13:36:44 -0700 | political-news
Americans across the nation were yet again forced to endure the sight of their coworkers' stupid fucking faces as they entered the office Monday morning. Yup, there they aresitting there again with those big dumbfuck looks on their big dumbfuck...
Bangladesh Reveals Uphill Battle For Fair Trade Clothes
Source: National Public Radio
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 11:57:12 -0700 | political-news
But global demand for inexpensive clothing shows no sign of abating. The New York Times ' Steven Greenhouse and Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion , unravel the prospects for improved safety in the...
Hundreds of Bangladesh textile plants shut
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 22:02:14 -0700 | political-news
News of the indefinite closure is another blow to the industry, which has pleaded with retailers not to pull out of Bangladesh and promised to offer a credible safety framework. The collapse of the nine-storey Rana Plaza, which housed five...
Teen recalls being trapped in rubble
Source: CNN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 10:41:35 -0700 | political-news
A Bangladeshi teen buried for 16 days under the rubble of a garment factory where she worked spoke for the first time Monday about her harrowing struggle to survive. Nineteen-year-old Reshma vowed to never again work in the country's garment...
Death toll at 1,127 as search for collapse victims ends
Source: Fox
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 07:57:30 -0700 | political-news
Bangladesh Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry...Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire...
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