Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: Bangladesh Garment Factory
‘Outsiders’ Blamed for Disruption as Bangladesh...
Bangladeshi workers launched protests for a third consecutive day outside about 130 garment factories on Tuesday to demand higher wages, marking the first such action in the country’s all-important ready-made garment sector since an interim government took office last month.
Factories Close as Bangladesh Police Clamp...
Street protests by Bangladeshi garment workers who want higher wages have turned violent while hundreds of factories have shut down, crippling the industry that is an engine of the country’s export economy.
Bangladesh Garment Factories Strive to Reduce...
Bangladesh’s apparel industry has made progress in transitioning to greener production by cutting electricity and water usage as well as reducing carbon emissions in churning out clothes for foreign markets, manufacturers and authorities said.
Coronavirus Spins Yarn of Trouble for...
Bangladesh’s garment industry, the engine of the South Asian nation’s economy, has suffered huge losses with disruptions in the supply chain of fabrics imported from China as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, factory owners and economists said Thursday