CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) — B.J. Watling scored his second test century and added 127 runs with Trent Boult in their last wicket stand before New Zealand was dismissed for 469 runs in their first innings on the second day of the first test against Bangladesh on Thursday.Boult contributed 52 to dominate Bangladesh which took four [...]

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) Scores Thursday at stumps on the second day of the first cricket test between Bangladesh and New Zealand at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium: ___ New Zealand: 469 all out in 157.1 overs (Kane Williamson 114, Peter Fulton 73, B. J. Watling 103, Trent Boult 52, Hamish Rutherford 34; Abdur Razzak 3-147, Sohag [...]

A couple of years earlier, Abdul Hamid never thought that one day he could afford to buy a mobile handset.Hamid, a rickshaw-puller in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, is now not only buying a mobile handset for himself but also for his wife who lives in a rural village in Bangladesh where 31 percent of about 153 [...]

Australian retailer ‘Target’ had reportedly bought clothes from the Bangladeshi garment factory, which burned down on Tuesday night killing seven workers, last month. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the order books recovered from the burned factory showed the names of the factory’s clients for September, which included Target Australia, U.S. brand Gap, British retailer [...]

New York, Oct 10 : The United Nations labour agency said it was deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh, adding that the incident highlights the need to do more to address the safety of … [Read More]

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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) — B.J. Watling scored his fifth test half-century to help New Zealand recover from a poor start and reach 378-9 at lunch on the second day of the first cricket test on Thursday.Wicketkeeper-batsman Watling was unbeaten on 58 with Trent Boult on 6 at the first interval. Watling's total came off 108 [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Several factory workers were killed when a deadly blaze engulfed a four-storey building in a garment industry zone near the Bangladesh capital Wednesday, officials said. Fire services were still battling the blaze in the dyeing mill in Gazipur till early morning Wednesday. Abdul Baten, a police superintendent, said 10 deaths had been [...]

Reuters reports that the cause of the fire at the Aswad Composite Mills garment factory in Gazipur, 40 km north of the capital, is unknown, and about 50 workers have been … [Read More]

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scores were injured from the blaze at a factory in Gazipur, near the capital of Dhaka. Some fear the death toll could be much higher. "It's a massive fire. Ten fire brigade teams are working to put it out," local police chief Amir … [Read More]

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Tue Oct 8, 2013 2:43pm EDT
(Updates death toll, adds context)
DHAKA Oct 8 (Reuters) - Nine people were killed on Tuesday evening in a fire at a garment factory in the Bangladeshi town of Gazipur, 40 km north of the capital Dhaka, emergency officials said.
A series of deadly incidents at Bangladeshi factories, including a building collapse [...]