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The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety announced the completion of full safety remediation in 54 more Alliance-affiliated factories.

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh recently released updates of its Safety Committee Training Program.

The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety and The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, the two western buyers' platforms working to improve workplace safety in Bangladesh readymade garment sector, are to end their tenure at the end of next May, if remediation is properly completed.

Despite lots of challenges, Bangladesh’s apparels makers have initiated to make factories environment friendly Increasing number of factories have adopted green technology in their factories in the last few years. In March this year, Bangladesh’s English language daily Dhaka Tribune ...

Two American companies are working to introduce a system which can turn cloth into clothing without the need for tailors is just around the corner. If the experiments are successful, garment makers might cut their dependencies on human tailors and ...

Energy experts fear that Bangladesh’s energy prices might see a threefold hike over next 10 years. They pointed out that the government opted for importing ‘expensive’ liquefied natural gas (LNG) from next year and this decision will trigger energy prices ...

The traffics at the Chittagong port have increased in the last couple of years. However, the infrastructures were not improved in line with the increased traffics. The result is the congestion. Often heavy congestions hamper activities in the port which ...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented the national budget of Tk  4.0 trillion for the fiscal year 2017-18 on 1, June 2017.  This is his 11th budget, ninth at a stretch. He placed the budget in the parliament with a target ...

On May 18, 2017, the Partners of the Sustainability Compact – the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), the European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA), Canada, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) – met for the third follow-up meeting. ...