Bangladesh

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• Editorial: After Bangladesh factory collapse, look for the humane label

  Would we be willing to pay a little bit more for slacks or sneakers we could be sure were produced in a reasonably safe factory? There's no simple answer to that: Likely, some people would pay extra for that assurance and others wouldn't. But it matters.   Read more »

• Wal-Mart going its own way on Bangladesh factory safety

  Wal-Mart Stores says it is going its own way on fire and safety inspections in Bangladesh factories that produce its goods.Wal-Mart announced Wednesday that is stepping up its Bangladesh factory inspections while U.S. and European retailers pursued separ   Read more »

• Bangladesh honors the dead from building collapse

  (AP) -- Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the global ga   Read more »

• Swedish H&M to commit to Bangladesh factory reform

  STOCKHOLM -- Swedish fashion retailer H&M; says it will commit to a fire and building safety plan drawn up by unions in Bangladesh, after the deaths of hundreds of garment workers last month.Describing safety issues as extremely important, the company sa   Read more »

• Rain disrupts salvage work in Bangladesh collapse

  (AP) -- Search teams resumed their rain-interrupted work Sunday as the death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory building continued to climb past 1,100.Overnight rainstorms had halted the recovery efforts, but by late morning the teams   Read more »

Around the web

• Keighley man helps victims of Bangladesh building disaster

  More than 1,000 people are now known to have died when a building housing garments factories collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Abdul Ahad, who is from Lawkholme, travelled to Bangladesh as part of the charity Al-Imdaad Foundation 21 m ago from Keighley News Read more »

• Google Blocking Traffic to Bangladesh Telecoms Regulator's Website

  is blocking links to the Bangladesh telecoms regulator, after its routine scanning of the website for inclusion in its search results found malware being hosted on the regulator's own website. If you attempt to visit the BTRCs website via a link from the Google 2:02 AM from Cellular-News Read more »

• Stock Market Crises

  all the courses which were included in my MBA program. Now I would like to prepare thesis on Catastrophe in Stock Market of Bangladesh. A Case Study on recent crash of Stock Market with Reference with DSE, under the supervision of Dr.Shamimul Hasan, Lecturer, 1:57 AM from OpPapers.com Read more »

• Inside a Bangladesh garment factory that plays by the rules

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• Redeeming Bangladesh

  better. In the United States, Democrats in the House of Representatives have pressed President Obama for even stronger action. Bangladeshi workers themselves are having a more immediate impact. Widespread protests have forced the government to approve changes 12:01 AM from The New York Times Read more »