Published in the Financial Express on May 12, 2017 Unwanted or discarded things are usually thrown out considering those valueless. But precious products can be made from such things. And this is happening in Adamdighi upazila of Bogra district where ...

Published in the Financial Express on 12, May, 2017 International Finance Corporation (IFC) agreed this month to provide loans to three Bangladeshi business organization, two banks and a clothing firm. Bank Asia Ltd,Prime Bank Ltd and Ananta Apparels Ltd will ...

Published in the Financial Express on May 12, 2017 Monira Munni Western retailers’ platform Accord now moves to bring the garment-linkage industries, too, under its extended inspection purview to look into labour-right and safety issues. Industry sources said the expansion ...

Published in the Daily Star on 13, May, 2017 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government is going to introduce a long-term and sustainable employment injury scheme soon to ensure better benefits and support for workers. Hasina was ...

Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day. And in too many places, having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty. A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments ...

Published in the Daily Star on May 11, 2017 The two-day Bangladesh Denim Expo will start in Dhaka on May 17 to showcase denim fabrics, trousers and other products from home and abroad. The exhibition will be held at International ...

Published in the daily New Age on 8, May, 2017 The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a platform of European brands and buyers, on Monday said that the retailers and global unions had been engaged in negotiation ...

Published in Clean Clothes Campaign on 5, February, 2017 After years of sanctions, trade with Myanmar (formerly Burma) has started to flow. Low wages and favourable trade conditions are luring garment production from the region to this fragile democracy. Big ...

Published in the Daily Star on May 8, 2017 Refayet Ullah Mirdha The garment makers want extension of the Accord’s tenure by three years to see through the factory remediation works that the international retailers’ agency set in motion but ...

Published in the Financial Express on May 7, 2017 Muhammad Zamir The highlight of the last week of April was the observance of programmes marking the fourth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster. The disaster took place on April 24, ...