DHAKA, Nov. 25 (nsnewswire) — Bangladesh’s July-September trade deficit squeezed by about 33 percent year on year to over 1 billion U.S. dollars. A Bangladesh Bank (BB) official told nsnewswire that the country’s import payment was 8,804 million U.S. dollars, down 9.37 percent, in July-September period of the current fiscal year 2013-14 while earnings from […]

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (nsnewswire) — Bangladesh’s July-October export income surged about 17 percent year on year to about 10 billion U.S. dollars. “Export income in the first four months of the current 2013-14 fiscal year (July 2013-June 2014) reached 9,747.17 million U.S. dollars,” said an Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official who preferred to be unnamed. […]

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (nsnewswire) — More than 50 people including three firemen and cops were injured as thousands of Bangladesh garment workers Sunday morning fought pitched battles with law enforcers in Savar on the outskirts capital Dhaka. Spurred by rumors that a female worker had been tortured by the firemen, according to the eyewitnesses, thousands […]

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE: One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana Plaza building that collapsed last spring are refusing to join an effort to compensate the families of the more than 1,200 workers who died in those disasters. Related Marines Toughen Rules for […]

Rescuers have removed bodies from a Latvian supermarket whose roof had crashed down on shoppers, as the death toll from the country’s worst post-Soviet disaster rose to 49 with 30 more feared trapped under the rubble. Hope of finding more survivors was dwindling some 24 hours after the roof of the Maxima supermarket caved in […]