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Prime Bank to Start Accepting JCB Cards in Bangladesh
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Dhaka and Tokyo, Apr 18, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Prime Bank Limited (Prime Bank), a major commercial bank in Bangladesh starts JCB merchant acquiring operations in Bangladesh based on a license agreement with JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international subsidiary of JCB, the only global payment brand based in Japan. Prime Bank's merchants are to gradually start accepting JCB cards ...
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More than 120 dead as eight-story garment factories building collapses in Bangladesh
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SAVAR, Bangladesh - An eight-story building that housed several garment factories near the Bangladesh capital collapsed Wednesday morning, killing 123 workers, and injuring at least one thousand, with many more trapped under the rubble. The deaths add to a rising number of similar accidents in a country where well-known American retailers pay dirt-cheap wages to make clothing in factories with ...
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EU mulls action against Bangladesh as factory collapse toll over 400
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DHAKA, Bangladesh - The European Union is mulling trade action against Bangladesh to build pressure on the $19-billion garment industry and improve safety standards in the country where death toll in a deadly building collapse rose above 400 Wednesday.
"The European Union calls upon the Bangladeshi authorities to act immediately to ensure that factories across the country comply with ...
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Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse reaches 800
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Around 800 bodies had been retrieved in Bangladesh's building collapse by Wednesday evening as the grim recovery work continued a fortnight after the country's worst industrial tragedy which occurred on the outskirts of Dhaka. The rescuers continued their relentless efforts to search for more bodies as the stench of decaying bodies still remained around the ruins of the Rana Plaza building ...
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Bangladesh evacuates one million ahead of storm
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Bangladesh Wednesday ordered the evacuation of about one million people from its coastline as the cyclonic storm "Mahasen" in the Bay of Bengal was poised to cross the country's southern coast early Thursday. The UN has described the cyclone as life-threatening for 8.2 million people in Bangladesh, Myanmar and northeast India despite the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
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US to press for better work conditions in Bangladesh
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DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...
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Bangladeshi family evicted in Rome
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Prosecutors in the Italian capital are investigating a building administrator for racism after a Bangladeshi shop worker and his family were evicted allegedly over unpaid water bills. The building administrator in northern Montesacro district reportedly made the 40-year-old Bangladeshi tenant chisel a hole in one of his apartment's walls and disconnect the main water tap because of water ...
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UK to provide 18 million dollar aid to Bangladesh factory workers
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The UK government has declared that it will donate 18 million pounds as aid for the safety and skills training of low-skilled Bangladeshi factory workers. The announcement has been made in the wake of the factory collapse that killed over 1,100 people. British Conservative Party politician Alan Duncan has made the announcement as he met the survivors of the world's worst industrial disasters at ...
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