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A lawyer says the High Court in Bangladesh's capital has asked authorities to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country.The High Court made the request Sunday in response to a petition seeking the arrest of Delwar Hossain, the owner of Tazreen Fashions Ltd. It also asked authorities to bring Hossain before the court on May 30.No criminal charges have been brought against Hossain, although an inquiry into the fire accused him of negligence.Lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua says the petition was presented by three anthropologists who believe the large death toll in the Nov. 24 fire resulted from Hossain's negligence.At least 1,800 people have died in fires or building collapses in Bangladesh's garment industry since 2005....
Bangladeshi police say the death toll from the collapse of a building housing five garment factories has passed 800 and is continuing to climb.Authorities are still ...
Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a ga...
Swedish fashion retailer H&M says it will commit to a fire and building safety plan drawn up by unions in Bangladesh, following the deaths of hundreds of garment wor...
A woman who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building says she is finished with working in Bangladesh's garment industry.Reshma Begum spoke...
Rain has caused delays in recovery operations as the death toll from the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh continues to climb past 1,100.Overnight rainstor...
In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 500 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish.Home to five facto...
The media has been having a field day with the recent collapse of a clothing factory complex in Bangladesh that has killed 400, with many more dead still buried in t...
Global clothing brands involved in Bangladesh's troubled garment industry responded in starkly different ways to the building collapse that killed more than 600 peop...
Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment fa...
Macquarie Capital’s Liz Dunn and retail analyst Hitha Prabhakar on what is needed to improve working conditions in Bangladesh .
The death toll from the horrifying collapse of a shoddily built garment factory in Bangladesh hit 580 on Sunday as workers search through the remaining rubble for an...
Police banned all rallies in Bangladesh's capital through midnight Monday after at least 27 people died in clashes between police and Islamic hardliners demanding th...
Ever had that fear of falling asleep after take-off and waking up to realize you are on the wrong flight? Well, due to an airline mix-up, Sandy Valdivieso and her hu...
The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flatten...
Thousands of mourners have gathered at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the 1,127 people who died in the structure's colla...
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of th...
More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said Friday after arresting an engineer w...
Bangladesh rescue workers have freed a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed building.The rescuers discovered the woman Friday afternoon and ordered...
The death toll from a garment factory building that collapsed more than two weeks ago near the Bangladeshi capital soared past 1,000 on Friday, with no end in sight ...