Bangladeshi Factory

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  150 Bangladesh Garment Factories Shut "Indefinitely", 11,000 Workers Charged

  Bangladeshi garment manufacturers on Saturday shuttered 150 factories "indefinitely", as police issued blanket charges for 11,000 workers in connection with violent protests demanding a higher minimum wage, officers said.

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  13 Killed, 20 Injured In Bangladesh's Plastic Factory Fire

  At least 13 people were killed and nearly 20 people were critically injured when a fire swept through an illegal plastics factory outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said Thursday.

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  Bangladesh Fire Tragedy Toll Rises To 32

  The death toll in the fire tragedy at a Bangladeshi factory today climbed to 32 after more bodies were retrieved from under the debris and authorities called in a team of army to join the rescue operation.

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  Bangladesh Garment Factory Fire Kills 12, Injures Several Others

  A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, police and witnesses said.

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  Trafficked Nepali, Bangladeshi Women Trapped In Syria

  Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realise "something had gone very wrong".

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  Bangladesh Judge Orders Inspectors' Murder Prosecution

  A Bangladesh court today ordered the government to allow the prosecution of four inspectors for mass murder over the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster to go ahead after ministries tried to stall their cases.

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  Bangladesh Charges Rana Plaza Owner and 40 Others With Murder

  Bangladeshi police on Monday charged 41 people including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder over the building's collapse in 2013 that killed more than 1,100 people.

• Nine Bangladeshis Killed in Saudi Fire

  Eleven people have been burnt to death in a factory fire in Saudi Arabia. Nine of them were Bangladeshis, according to media reports.

• Thousands sacked as unsafe Bangladesh factory forced to close

  Several thousand Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs after their factory was discovered with serious safety problems and shut down, officials said on Monday.

• Fire breaks out at Bangladesh garments factory, no casualties

  A fire broke out at garment factory in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday but no one was in the building at the time and there were no casualties, a police official said.

• Fifty injured in Bangladesh clashes

  At least 50 people were injured on Sunday in clashes that erupted after thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers attacked a fire station in Dhaka.

• Bangladesh factories agree to pay rise, but protests go on

  Bangladeshi garment factory owners said on Thursday they had agreed to a proposed 77 percent rise in the minimum wage, but police used teargas and rubber bullets to break up new protests by stone-throwing workers calling for a bigger increase.

• Bangladesh town mayor arrested over factory disaster

  Bangladeshi police have arrested the mayor of the town where a garment factory block collapsed killing 1,129 people, for his role in approving the shoddy structure, an officer said today.

• 450 workers fall sick at Bangladesh garment plant

  About 450 employees fell ill on Sunday after complaining of contaminated water at their workplace near the Bangladeshi capital, the second such incident to hit the same garment factory in recent days, police said.

• Bangladesh miracle survivor 'doing great': doctor

  Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.