Major US retailers, including Gap, declined to endorse an accord on Bangladesh building and fire safety backed by Europe’s two biggest fashion chains, a trans-Atlantic divide that may dilute...
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12 May 2013
On April 24, Reshma Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her. She raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became...
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10 May 2013
A woman was pulled alive on Friday from the ruins of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh 17 days after it collapsed and killed over 1,000 people, live television footage showed.
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10 May 2013
A fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people yesterday, another blow to an industry already in shock after the deaths of more than 900 people when another factory collapsed.
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9 May 2013
Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another...
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7 May 2013
At least 28 people have died in street battles between Bangladeshi police and tens of thousands of Islamists, officials said yesterday, deepening the divide between the secular government and...
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At least 28 people have died in street battles between Bangladeshi police and tens of thousands of Islamists, officials said on Monday, deepening the divide between the secular government and...
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More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said on Friday after arresting an engineer who warned the building was...
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Loblaw, Canada’s largest food retailer, said it would soon announce more actions in the wake of the collapse of a building in Bangladesh where some of its “Joe Fresh” garments were manufactured....
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The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building...
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Angry labourers started taking to the streets the day after the disaster, blocking major highways to several industrial areas outside the capital, Dhaka.
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Shahina Akter's 110-hour struggle to survive in the collapsed Bangladesh factory block, only to die in a fire that erupted in the ruins, has made her one of the tragic public faces of the nation's...
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