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Bangladesh building fire kills 45, injures dozens
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2024
» DHAKA - A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the health minister said on Friday.
Bangladesh garment factories firing workers after protests
Published on 28/12/2023
» DHAKA - Bangladesh garment factories have fired hundreds of workers since protests in October demanding higher wages, three labour unions representing half a million workers told Reuters this week, while many others are on the run fearing arrest.
Bangladesh PM rejects further pay hike after garment worker protests
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» DHAKA - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected any further pay hikes for protesting garment workers demanding a nearly tripled wage increase, after violent clashes with police and factories were ransacked.
Bangladeshi woman shot dead in wage protest
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» DHAKA - A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday in the latest violent protests by garment workers after they rejected a government wage increase offer, with the victim's husband blaming the police.
Cambodia's Hun Sen threatens to block Facebook access
AFP, Published on 30/06/2023
» PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday he could block access to Facebook in Cambodia, after the company said it would remove a video in which he threatened to beat up political opponents.
Cannes gets rare look at real life in Chinese factories
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» CANNES (FRANCE) - Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing got incredible access to the inner workings of his country's textile industry by spending five years with its employees, but he fears it may be more difficult for him to work there in future.
Unlocking global supply chains
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton.
Bangladesh factory disaster survivors plead for justice 10 years on
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» SAVAR (BANGLADESH) - Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Akhter feared for her safety, but was told to start her shift or risk forfeiting her wages. An hour later she was pinned down under rubble and clinging to life.
Japan's rare intimacy coordinators in demand after abuse scandals
AFP, Published on 23/02/2023
» KAWASAKI (JAPAN) - On a set outside Tokyo, Momoko Nishiyama sits with the drama's director and watches as a man undresses a woman, guiding the love scene as one of just two "intimacy coordinators" in Japan.
As China lifts pandemic border controls, mixed feelings at home and abroad
Published on 08/01/2023
» HONG KONG: Over the past three years, Zhou Wanhui, a Hong Kong resident, has visited her parents in China just three times.