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Bangladesh: factories faced with expensive fire safety requirements

As far as fire safety is concerned Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) factory owners will have to spend at least Tk 40 billion (331.5 million pounds) to meet requirements of various international buyers. The deadly incidents at Rana Plaza building, which took lives of 1134 workers and injured many, and the fire incident in Tazreen Fashions,...

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Bangladesh: first reports mark new era of responsibility

IN DEPTH_ Not even a year ago on 24th April 2013, one of the worst industrial tragedies struck Bangladesh’s garment industry: the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Greater Dhaka that housed five garment factories collapsed, killing 1,133 garment workers. Not even a month later on 13th May 2013, the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh...