Rana Plaza

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  Smoke, Cracks In Building Hamper Search After Bangladesh Factory Fire

  The fire at a food and cigarette packaging factory in Bangladesh that killed at least 26 people has been extinguished, but heavy smoke and the risk of the building collapsing further were hampering the search of the premises, officials said today.

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  Bangladesh Charges 38 With Murder Over 2013 Garment Factory Collapse

  A court in Bangladesh formally charged 38 people with murder on Monday in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country's worst industrial disaster.

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  Bangladesh Says 80% of Garment Factories Safe

  More than 80 per cent of Bangladesh's garment factories supplying global retailers have been found to be safe, the government said today, citing improvements made after a deadly 2013 accident.

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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.

• 4 Dead, At Least 100 Feared Trapped as Factory Collapses in Bangladesh

  About 100 workers were feared trapped today when a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh, a police official told Reuters.

• Bangladesh's 'miracle' survivor marries and builds new life

  She was the "miracle" seamstress, plucked from the rubble of the world's worst garment factory disaster 17 days after her factory collapsed. One year on, she has married and found a new job.

• Bangladesh factory victims get money ahead of anniversary

  A fund created to compensate victims of Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster made its first payments Tuesday as the country prepared to mark the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse

• Most Bangladesh factory survivors still too sick to work: survey

  Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, a survey released Monday said.

• Bangladesh factory owners to face homicide charges

  A Bangladesh court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two owners of a garment factory and four of their employees on homicide charges for the deaths of 112 workers in a fire that engulfed the factory in 2012.

• 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.

• Retailers plan Bangladesh factory inspections under safety pact

  A group of mainly European retailers has finalised a plan to conduct coordinated inspections of factories in Bangladesh in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster that killed 1,129 people in April.

• After worst industrial disaster, authorities shut down factory at risk

  Bangladesh authorities on Wednesday shut down an eight-storey factory complex after cracks appeared in a wall, triggering panic among thousands of garment workers who feared the building would collapse, police and officials said.

• Ghost spotted at Bangladesh garment plant, prayers offered

  Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were forced to offer prayers and distribute food to the poor on Wednesday in a bid to drive out what workers believed was a ghost at the plant, police said.

• Bangladesh suspends seven inspectors who failed to check doomed factories

  Bangladesh has suspended seven inspectors it accuses of negligence for renewing the licenses of the five garment factories in a building that collapsed in April, killing more than 1,100 people.