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I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss
Meem, 9, works 12-hour shifts at a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She dreams of becoming a sewing operator, buying more hair clips and helping her family.
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The True Cost of Cheap Clothing
As cotton has evolved into one crop among many for Mississippi Delta farmers, it remains a central force in the vast, tangled, global textiles market—a market that includes producer/retailers like the United States, pure retail markets like the European Union, and the ligament between them: garment manufacturers like China and India, both of which also grow significant portions of the global cotton supply.
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Angels in hell – A photographer captures child labor in Bangladesh
The Angels in Hell series of photographer GMB Akash, who captured striking and powerful images denouncing child labor in Bangladesh. Some shocking photographs
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Bangladesh cement factory collapse traps about 100 workers
About 100 workers were feared trapped on Thursday when a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh.
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Only 100 Tigers Left in Bangladesh's Famed Sundarbans Forest
The population in the mangrove forest is far less than believed, officials say, after a census uses cameras hidden in trees to record numbers
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Crowds cheer Bangladesh-India land swap after 70 years in limbo
Jubilant crowds celebrated Saturday as Bangladesh and India swapped tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands in limbo for nearly seven decades.
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Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world
Just after midnight Saturday, one of the most perplexing border disputes in the world officially ended. India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves – small areas of sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country – and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years.
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Islamists Kill Fourth Secularist Blogger in Bangladesh; Center for Inquiry Demands Decisive Action | Center for Inquiry
The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values.
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Bangladesh police kill 6 alleged tiger poachers in gunfight
Police on Sunday killed six suspected tiger poachers in the world’s largest mangrove forest in southwestern Bangladesh, home to critically endangered Royal Bengal tigers. Local police official Harendranath Sarker said authorities recovered six bodies following a gunfight with a gang of suspected poachers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
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The brutal fight of Bangladesh’s secular voices to be heard
Niloy Chakrabarti was only the latest atheist blogger to be hacked to death in the country this year. The subsequent government crackdown on ‘blasphemers’ has sent others into hiding. What is the future for the country’s liberal writers?
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Outsourcing Training in Bangladesh
Advance IT center is Best Institute for making successful Freelancer. This is the best online earning training center in Dhaka run with supportive teachers.Our courses is Guaranteed to establish in online earning sector.
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Online Outsourcing Training Center in Bangladesh
Advance IT Dhaka is the reliable Outsourcing Training Center in Bangladesh prepares students with the best guidance and teaching
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Earthquake Hits India's Manipur State
Earthquake measuring 6.7 magnitude hits northeast India, near border with Myanmar and Bangladesh
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Bangladesh: Halt Imminent War Crimes Executions
(New York) – The Bangladeshi government should halt the imminent executions of two men convicted of war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately suspend the death sentences of Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid of the Jamaat-e-Islam Party and Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh National Party pending an independent and impartial review of their cases.
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$1 Billion Plot to Rob Fed Accounts Leads to Manila Casinos
Casinos, money laundering and a scheme to steal $1 billion from the Bangladeshi central bank.
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Bangladesh gets FBI help on bank heist, cyber expert missing
Bangladesh police met an official of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Dhaka on Sunday to try to track down culprits in an attempted $951 million cyber heist from the country's central bank. Initial investigations aim to identify the origin of a transfer order for $81 million that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York paid from Bangladesh Bank's account there to casinos in the Philippines, a senior police official told reporters.
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Al Qaeda group says it killed Bangladeshi blogger
Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh division of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, has claimed responsibility for the recent killing of blogger Nazimuddin Samad, the jihadist monitoring group SITE reported Friday. Machete-wielding attackers in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka killed Samad, 26, the sixth secularist writer or publisher to be killed in the city in the last 14 months. Police said the attack late Wednesday on Samad, a master's student at Jagannath University, was planned.
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Three Years After a Factory Collapse Killed 1,130 Workers, This Brand is Still Making Clothes in Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 was not only an unprecedented tragedy in the clothing industry — it also drew attention to the countless fast-fashion brands worldwide that were making their clothes in similar conditions.
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Lightning in Bangladesh kills 42
At least 42 people, including women and children, were killed in Bangladesh within the last 24 hours after being struck by lightning during thundershowers, officials said on Friday. Meteorological office said the downpour brought with it thundershowers in 14 districts, including Dhaka. Nine people were killed in five districts on Friday as rain has been lashing several parts of the country after a spell of heat waves. Thirty-three people, including children and women...
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This amazing Bangladeshi air cooler is made from plastic bottles and uses no electricity
Summer is upon us, and complaints about the heat will soon be common in many places. But few places will reach the scorching temperatures residents of Bangladesh will experience, and air conditioning is simply not an option for most people living in rural areas. Ashis Paul developed a clever DIY cooling system that doesn’t need any electricity and is built from a common waste item: empty plastic soda bottles. In just three months, Paul’s company has helped install its smart powerless air conditioners, called Eco Coolers, in 25,000 households, with many more still ahead.
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