Dhaka, Bangladesh News

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A Bangladeshi rescuer stands amid the rubble of a garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue searching for bodies in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 12, 2013.

Bangladesh rescuers look for survivors and victims at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013.

Dhaka, May 15 : Bangladesh Wednesday ordered the evacuation of about one million people from its coastline as the cyclonic storm "Mahasen" in the Bay of Bengal was poised to cross the country's southern coast early Thursday.

Burma's economy is in danger of imitating its floundering western neighbor Bangladesh rather than its more dynamic eastern neighbor Thailand.

KAMPONG SPEU: A ceiling has collapsed at a shoe factory in Cambodia, killing at least two workers, police said, stoking concerns about industrial safety after last month's disaster in Bangladesh.

The government of Bangladesh, which allows minority Rohingya Muslims to die slowly as they battle and attempt to flee Genocide in Burma , opened fire on unarmed Muslim protestors in Dhaka killing around 2,500, according to local witnesses.

While the exact number of dead is unknown, estimates range from several dozens, to hundreds, possibly more than a thousand.

For many years, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society held an annual fair that sold only goods that weren't made by slaves.

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 garment industry.

But the way Reshma describes her 17 harrowing days -- buried underground in pitch-black darkness as the voices around her faded away, as sweltering days bled into humid nights, as she questioned whether she was in this world or the next -- it's an apt one.

The collapse of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last month drew worldwide attention to the fashion industry's production processes.

Giant retailer Walmart announced Tuesday that it would conduct in-depth safety inspections at all 279 of its Bangladesh suppliers.

More than 1,100 people were killed in the clothing-factory collapse in Bangladesh last month.

Reshma looked absolutely pale and exhausted, reflecting her grueling 17-day stress of battle for life in the mounds of rubble.