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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 ...

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 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 7, May, 2017 Monira Munni Labour unrest is still high in the country’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector, although the number of such incidents has declined since 2013, according to recent studies. Such incidents were ...

Published in the daily New Age on 7, May, 2017 Moinul Haque Country’s export earning growth in the July-April period of the current fiscal year 2016-17 slumped to 3.92 per cent, as against 9.92 per cent growth in the same ...

Published in the Daily Star  on 7, May, 2017 A young man in a white t-shirt pulls on a dark blue denim trucker jacket, tucks his smartphone in an inside pocket and puts in-ear headphones in his right ear. He ...

Published in the Financial Express  on 6, May, 2017 Jasim Uddin Haroon The government has slashed projection for merchandise exports by 3.0 percentage points to 7.0 per cent for this fiscal, which suggests the country may miss its US$37-billion export ...

Published in Fiber2Fashion.com on 7, May, 2017 The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance) has announced that during the months of March and April, ten additional Alliance-affiliated readymade garment (RMG) factories completed all material components outlined in their Corrective Action ...

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