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AP looks at impact in Spain of a rise in Bangladesh's minimum wage ahead of vote
Bangladesh could vote as early as Thursday on an increase in factory worker wages by up to 76 percent.
It follows protests by garment workers in Bangladesh who have been have been demonstrating since last month to press for a wage...
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Arrested owner of collapsed building presented to media, officer comments
1. Mid of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel holding owner of the collapsed factory, Sohel Rana (centre) during news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mokhlesur Rahman, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General:
"Actually, he did...
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Government announces 77 percent raise in minimum wage for unskilled garment workers
A government-appointed panel on Thursday set the minimum wage for Bangladesh's garment workers at 5,300 takas or $68 US dollars, a hike of 77 percent, though many workers said they expected more.
The decision came at the final meeting of...
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Bangladesh - Floods
After two months of disastrous flooding, Bangladesh issued an
appeal for international relief.
Vs aerials of flooded Dhaka city,
More aerials of flooded land,
Looking out at more flooding from cockpit of helicopter;
Night shots of people...
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Muslims across globe protest against movie considered insulting to Islam
++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately...
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Owners of garment factory where 112 killed give themselves up to police
The two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory who are facing homicide charges for a 2012 fire that killed 112 workers surrendered to a court on Sunday and were denied bail.
Police filed homicide charges on 22 December against 13 people...
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US Assistant Secretary of State urges Bangladesh's feuding politicians to hold talks
A US official on Monday said more needed to be done to improve the safety conditions and labour rights in the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh.
On a visit to Dhaka, the US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal said...
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Bangladesh - Campus violence
The vice-chancellor at strife-torn Dhaka University in Bangladesh resigned on Saturday (24/8) amid renewed shooting that left an opposition student activist in hospital with bullet wounds.
Five days of politically-linked campus violence...
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Fire breaks out in rubble of collapsed building
1. Wide of rescuers carrying alive worker down staircase of collapsed building
2. Various of rescuers recovering the dead bodies through the drilled holes
3. Mid of rescuers trying to save worker through drilled hole
4. Mid of military...
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Workers who survived factory collapse take to the streets to demand compensation
Bangladesh began compiling details on Monday of the victims of the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse as part of a compensation deal, but dozens of people took to the streets demanding a more complete accounting of the disaster.
The...
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BANGLADESH: INCREASING TRADE IN HUMAN ORGANS
Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 18th-20th, 19961. Man shows scar where kidney was removed2. SOUNDBITE: (Bengali) man who sold his kidney3. Bengali newspaper4. Zoom in to appeal for kidney donor5. Surgeons carrying out operation6. SOUNDBITE:...
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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: STREET CHILDREN
Dhaka, Bangladesh Recent:
1. street kids picking through garbage in streets
2. children picking feathers off dead chicken
3. group of children seated on floor in NGO school
4. children studying
5. young kids with teacher
6. SOUNDBITE...
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Protests outside site of deadly factory blaze
1. Wide of two women whose relatives died in fire, at entrance to burnt out Tazreen Fashions building
2. Mid of women
3. Wide of pile of garments in factory
4. Mid of products destroyed in fire
5. Various of garments
6. Wide...
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Reaction in Bangladesh after US suspends trade privileges
1. Various of front view of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) building
2. SOUNDBITE: (Bangla) Kazi Ifterkhar Hossain, President of the Bangladesh Garment Buying House Association:
"Years have passed...
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Protests over deadly building collapse turn violent as anger mounts
1. Wide of workers near Rana Plaza on Dhaka-Aricha Highway looking at fire blocking road
2. Wide of hundreds of workers gathering on link road to Dhaka-Aricha Highway
3. Close-up of fire in road
4. Tracking shot of police approaching...
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WRAP Fire kills at least 110, injures 100
4 June 2010
1. Wide of street where fire started
2. Various of man crying and singing for lost loved ones
3. Burned out cycle rickshaw
4. Close up of burnt cycle rickshaw wheel
5. Burnt belongings scattered on the ground
6. Wide of...
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Boiler explosion in garment factory causes stampede, kills 2
1. Wide of fire fighters, fire trucks and crowd in street outside factory
2. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mariam Begum, garment worker:
"As I came down the stairs, I saw everybody running. So I asked someone what had happened and he said there had...
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Scores killed, injured as blaze rips through garment factory
1. Wide of factory on fire, workers fleeing
2. Various of factory on fire, smoke and flames coming out of windows
3. Various of firefighters battling flames
4. Close-up of Hameem Group's sign
5. Wide of relatives waiting outside...
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Brief court appearance for owners held over collapse of factory building
1. Police taking two arrested garment factory owners out of a minibus
2. Police escort the factory owners up stairs in the court building surrounded by media
3. Close of police escorting factory owners
4. Mid of media and onlookers on...
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AP report on climate change impact in Bangladesh
Southkhali, Bagerhat - 22 November, 2007
1. Various of people walking past houses damaged and destroyed by Cyclone Sidr
2. Fallen trees and destroyed houses on riverbank
3. Wide of people boarding boat with dead cattle in river
Dhaka -...
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Over 950 people now confirmed dead in Rana Plaza building collapse
1. Various of the rescue efforts going on at the backside of the collapsed building
2. Various of rescuers carrying stretchers to bring out dead bodies
3. Various of rescuers carrying stretchers with dead bodies amidst the debris
4....
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Bangladeshis take plunge in worlds biggest swim lesson
CLEAN : Bangladeshis take plunge in worlds biggest swim lesson
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Bangladesh factory miracle survivor
CLEAN : Bangladesh factory miracle survivor