Dhaka, Bangladesh News

Amid an international outcry and promises by retailers to improve worker safety, Bangladesh is struggling to conduct even a crude assessment of the country's garment factories.

Unlike PR opposition figures, who are getting arrested for questioning the conduct of the 5/5 election on behalf of the majority of the electorate, UMNO bloggers are still enjoying freedom of speech.

Cyclone Mahasen has damaged crops worth 2.75 Bangladeshi taka , hurting hundreds of farmers in the southern districts.

Agartala, May 23: In a major breakthrough, the Bangladesh government has formally permitted annual transportation of 10,000 metric tonnes of foodgrain within India through Bangladesh waters.

On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of reach.

Nababarsha, the first day of the Bangla Shaal, is a momentous occasion in the life of each and every Bangladeshi.

A Bangladesh government report into the collapse of a multi-storey factory building, which killed more than 1,100, has uncovered a series of violations.

SAVAR, Bangladesh-When rescuers freed Marium Begum from the tangle of steel and concrete in which she had been trapped for 36 hours after last month's Bangladeshi garment factory collapse, she thought the worst was over.

Rice imports in Bangladesh hit the lowest in 16 years, thanks to increased domestic production that helped the country become nearly self-sufficient. Bangladesh imported only 27,700 tonnes of rice since the beginning of fiscal 2012-13, down 94 per cent from 515,000 tonnes in the same period a year earlier, according to the food ministry.

A senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader said yesterday his party had made a mistake by backing the May 5 rally of Hefajat-e Islam at Shapla Chattar in the capital.

The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building's owner was the "main culprit" for the disaster because he violated construction codes.

By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, May 22 : Directed at channeling the "patriotic spirit" of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a "secular youth force", the Shahbag movement, that peaked in February and March with tens of thousands of protesters and torchlight processions, is "not dead" and "lives on" sans the noise and the fury, its leaders and participating ... (more)

Survivors who suffered amputations while being rescued receive medical treatment at the Enam Medical College.

Too often, economic globalization has amounted to an idiotic and short-sighted race to the bottom, under which multinational corporations maximize their already hefty profits and the pay of their already wealthy top executives by moving manufacturing operations to Third World countries, where employees can be paid as little as possible.

In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, a tank-top made in Bangladesh hangs on a rack in an H&M store in Atlanta.

The local arm of IndustriALL, a global union federation, yesterday appealed to Wal-Mart and Gap to join a legally binding accord immediately to ensure safety in Bangladesh's garment factories.

"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.

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.

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

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.