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7 hrs ago | Asia News Network

TAIPEI: What to do when human life is as cheap as a new T-shirt

"This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers.

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11 hrs ago | WGAL-TV Lancaster

Airline flub: couple flown to wrong continent

According to a Los Angeles Times report, that's the travel nightmare story Sandy Valdivieso and her husband, Triet Vo, will get to tell for the rest of their lives.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Asia News Network

DHAKA: Proposed reforms in Bangladesh labour laws unduly benefit employers

The proposed amendment to Sri Lanka's labour law, expected to be finalised in June, claims to bring changes for workers--for the better.

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The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

Bangladesh Court Orders Action against Tazreen Fire Factory Owner

A Bangladesh court on Sunday banned the owner of a garment factory that was destroyed in a fire in November from leaving the country as anger builds up over a string of deadly incidents in which thousands have died.

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Inter Press Service

Survivors of Factory Collapse Speak Out

The air was filled with the smell of decomposing corpses," recalled Nasima, a 24-year-old factory worker who spent four days buried under the rubble of an eight-storey building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka last month.

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News24

Unrest erupts in Bangladesh's garment hub

Bangladeshis watch the rescue operations at the site of a building housing garment factories that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Commentary Magazine

Curtailing Bangladesh Investment Is Short-Sighted

The April 24 collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza, a building hosting numerous garment factories on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, has now claimed more than 1,100 lives.

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The Peninsula

H&M mulling production in S. America, Africa

STOCKHOLM: Swedish fashion giant H&M is considering starting production in South America and Africa, chief executive Karl-Johan Persson told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday.

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Sun May 19, 2013

CNN

Inside a factory that plays by the rules

The rat-a-tat of a hundred green sewing machines. The hypnotic hum of spools spinning brightly colored threads.

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MYREPUBLICA.com

The PEON power

Similarities between political trajectories of Nepal and Pakistan after 1960s have been striking.

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Asia News Network

DHAKA: Mobile banking helps Bangladesh economy grow

Around 1.12 billion Bangladeshi taka is being transacted through mobile banking services in Bangladesh every day on an average, helping the economy grow further by transferring money from urban to rural areas, Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman said yesterday.

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The Age

Airline error sends couple to wrong continent

Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines.

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Reuters

Bangladesh court orders action against factory owner in Nov fire

A Bangladesh court on Sunday banned the owner of a garment factory that was destroyed in a fire in November from leaving the country as anger builds up over a string of deadly incidents in which thousands have died.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Psychology Today

What You Wear Matters

Until the fire in Dacca that killed more than 1,000 workers, I didn't give much thought to the origins of the apparel I put on my body.

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United Nations

UN human rights chief welcomes signing of Bangladesh work safety accord by major companies

Hundreds people lost their lives when an eight-story building outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on 24 April, 2013, trapping thousands of mostly garment workers inside.

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Fri May 17, 2013

St. Cloud Times

Will 1,127 deaths move the needle for U.S. shoppers?

Ranjana Akhter, 35, holds a picture of her missing daughter Sheuli, 20, while standing opposite the ruins of Rana Plaza where Sheuli worked.

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State Department

Collected Department Releases: Remarks With Bangladeshi Foreign...

SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. I'm very happy to welcome Foreign Minister Dipu Moni from Bangladesh.

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Counterpunch

Business-Friendly Corpses

When the nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, 1127 people were killed.

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Newkerala.com

Air Arabia's net profit rises

Kolkata; May 15 : Air Arabia , low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, on Wednesday declared its financial results for the three months ending Mar 31, 2013, reporting a net profit of AED 59 million and registering an increase of 20 percent compared to AED 49 million in the corresponding quarter in 2012.

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Thu May 16, 2013

The Peninsula

Garment hub to reopen in Dhaka ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh garment manufacturers said yesterday that they would reopen hundreds of factories in a manufacturing hub outside the capital, days after they shut the plants due to worker unrest following a deadly accident.

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