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Report: Life in prison sought for suspects in Bangladesh collapse
A government inquiry in Bangladesh will recommend life in prison for nine people arrested in connection with the deadly collapse of a garment factory complex just outside the capital, Dhaka, according to a report Tuesday by the Reuters news agency. At...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, China, Prisons
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Travel nightmare: Dakar, Dhaka — what's the difference?
Sandy Valdivieso and her husband intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal. They ended up almost 7,000 miles off-course in Dhaka, Bangladesh. How something this bizarre could happen illustrates how a single mix-up on an airline's part can...
Tags: Senegal, Consumers, Transportation Industry, Trips and Vacations, Transportation
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Mary Sanchez: Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame. The evidence of my complicity sits idle on the landing, next to a tennis racquet. Asics shoes. My adored new pair, so light, makes it...Tags: Walmart, Manufacturing and Engineering, The Wall Street Journal, Consumers, Tommy Hilfiger
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Bangladesh and its workers
Another tragedy at a Bangladesh clothing factory, another announcement by Wal-Mart about additional steps it will take to beef up worker safety, this time by inspecting all of its suppliers' facilities itself. Not that the retailing giant hasn't made real...Tags: Walmart, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work
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Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue
If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies — including Benetton, PVH, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, Inditex (Zara), Marks &...
Tags: New York University, Arbitration, Walmart, Health and Safety at Work, Politics
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With Bangladesh, is the consumer partially at fault?
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds Quick: How many of you can name which country each item of clothing you're currently wearing came from? I'll assume it's no one. Most of us probably couldn't even say which brand each piece belongs to without...... -
In Bangladesh, shock may give way to status quo
NEW DELHI — The disaster caused shocking loss of life among young, mostly female garment workers, awoke the conscience of a nation, spotlighted dismal working conditions and spurred loud calls for construction and labor reform. So far, that...Tags: Italy, Walmart, Disasters and Accidents, Immigration, Tommy Hilfiger
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Sears won't sign Bangladesh safety accord
Sears said Wednesday it does not plan to sign a fire and building safety agreement backed by some of Europe's biggest apparel brands aimed at trying to prevent another disaster like the one in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers. Instead, the...
Tags: Arbitration, Walmart, Marketing, National Retail Federation, Work Rules Contract Issues
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Gary Olson: Bangladesh deaths reveal high human cost of cheap apparel
The death toll from the April 24 collapsed garment factory building in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka has now exceeded 1,100, making it one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history. Young female seamstresses accounted for the overwhelming...Tags: JC Penney Company Inc., Moravian College, Walmart, China, Sean John Combs
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Boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya minority capsize off Myanmar; 42 known survivors
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — An overcrowded boat capsized while trying to escape a cyclone bearing down on Myanmar, tossing dozens of members of the displaced Rohingya minority group into the sea. Eight bodies were found and more than 50 people were...Tags: United Nations, Weather Reports, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Weather
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Well, that's the other side of the world...
Take 1,100 people out of a city in North America and the world would have something to talk about for weeks, regardless of the circumstances. Changes would occur, with 9/11 serving as the obvious example. Have the same number of people killed in a place...Tags: Pakistan, Dominican Republic, Consumer Goods Industries, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Malaysia
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Prayer service remembers victims of Bangladesh building collapse
NEW DELHI, India -- Thousands gathered Tuesday in the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Bangladesh to pray for the 1,127 victims who died in the ruins of the world’s worst apparel industry disaster. Pictures taken at...
Tags: Walmart, Disasters and Accidents, National Government, Tesco plc, New Delhi (India)
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