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May 18, 2013
6:01 am
PHNOM PENH — Hem Navy lies on a stretcher in the emergency room of a local hospital, hours after she was pulled out from under the collapsed ceiling of an Asics factory in the southwestern province of Kompong Speu. Half her face is severely bruised with signs of internal bleeding around her eyes, and her left foot is bundled in a bloody bandage. “When the ceiling fell, I ran to try and escape it,” she said.
May 16, 2013
3:07 pm
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh covers more than 1,000 Bangladesh factories.
May 16, 2013
10:24 am
Cyclone Mahasen touched down in Bangladesh on Thursday, killing as many as 12 and sending thousands to emergency shelters.
May 15, 2013
8:31 am
Bangladesh and Myanmar continue to evacuate hundreds of thousands living in low-lying costal areas ahead of Cyclone Mahasen's expected landfall Friday morning.
May 15, 2013
7:20 am
Cyclone Mahasen, now heading over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to make landfall on Friday morning north of the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong.
May 14, 2013
9:01 am
Major European fashion retailers agree to sign a legally-binding safety accord to improve safety in Bangladesh garment factories.
May 14, 2013
6:46 am
European retailers agree to plan for improving safety in Bangladesh, Angelina Jolie reveals she underwent a preventive double mastectomy, and why Swaziland's witches must fly low.
May 13, 2013
4:20 pm
Following a factory building collapse last month that has killed 1,127.
May 13, 2013
11:14 am
AKM Yusuf, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, was arrested in Dhaka and charged with offences related to Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.
May 13, 2013
11:06 am
The government also announced plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers.
May 10, 2013
11:51 am
The typical Bangladeshi garment worker takes home less than $40 a month, a wage that Pope Francis has condemned as akin to slave labour.
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