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		<title>Cyclone Mahasen Fizzles as It Hits Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(COX&#8217;S BAZAR, Bangladesh) — Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Burma almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. Bangladesh evacuated 1 million people from coastal areas and the United Nations warned that 8.2 million people could face life-threatening conditions. The cyclone lost power as it shed huge amounts of rainfall and then veered west of its predicted path, sparing major Bangladeshi population areas, including Chittagong and the seaside resort of Cox&#8217;s Bazar, said Mohammad Shah Alam, director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. &#8220;Thank God we have been spared this time,&#8221; local government administrator Ruhul Amin said. The storm&#8217;s impact in Burma, where officials were having trouble evacuating tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya people, was minimal. &#8220;We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over. There can be heavy rains in some areas because of the cyclone, but the danger is over,&#8221; said Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Burma&#8217;s meteorology department. In Cox&#8217;s Bazar, tens of thousands of people had fled shanty homes along the coast and packed into cyclone shelters, hotels, schools and government office buildings. But by Thursday afternoon, the sun was shining and Amin said he planned to close the shelters by the evening. The storm&#8217;s slow movement toward Bangladesh gave the government plenty of warning to get people to safety, Amin said. &#8220;But for the evacuation, the casualties would have been higher,&#8221; he said. In addition, river ferries and boat services were suspended, and scores of factories near the choppy Bay of Bengal were closed. The military said it kept 22 navy ships and 19 Air Force helicopters at the ready. A 1991 cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh from the Bay of Bengal killed an estimated 139,000 people and left millions homeless. In 2008, Burma&#8217;s southern delta was devastated by Cyclone Nargis,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86693&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retailers Sign Bangladesh Garment Factory Safety Deal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/retailers-sign-bangladesh-garment-factory-safety-deal-as-collapse-rescue-efforts-wind-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official Rana Plaza death toll stood at 1,127 on Monday as rescue efforts were finally brought to a close. At the same time, thousands of miles away, international retailers embraced a labor-backed factory safety proposal for Bangladesh’s garment factories, raising hopes that similar tragedies might be avoided in the future. Zara’s parent company Inditex, Dutch retailer C&#38;A, H&#38;M, and British high street giants Primark and Tesco all signed the building and fire safety agreement backed by a coalition of labor groups known as IndustriALL. Bangladesh is the world&#8217;s second largest producer of &#8216;fast&#8217; fashion for export yet workers receive paltry wages and are forced to toil for long hours in sweatshop conditions. “Fire and building safety are extremely important issues for us and we put a lot of effort and resources within this area,” Helena Helmersson, head of sustainability at  H&#38;M, said in a statement. “With this commitment we can now influence even more in this issue.” C&#38;A and Zara both had suppliers within the eight-storey Rana Plaza, situated on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, when it collapsed on April 24., while H&#38;M remains the largest producer of clothing in Bangladesh. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh’s Worst Industrial Accident: Scenes From a Terrifying Tragedy) A spokesman for Primark hailed the agreement for “financing and implementing a joint fire and building safety program&#8221; that would include &#8220;safety inspections, remediation and fire safety training at supplier factories.&#8221; Previously, only two companies — PVH, which owns Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and the German retailer Tchibo — had signed an industry safety accord for the country. Rana Plaza housed at least 3,500 workers in five garment factories when it collapsed three weeks ago. Bosses ignored warnings to vacate the premises after gaping cracks indicated the building had been gravely compromised. The building’s owner, Sohel Rana, has already been brought before a court and had his assets seized after being caught attempting to flee the country. The collapse was the world’s worst industrial accident since India’s Bhopal gas disaster killed 2,259 people in 1984. (MORE: Dying for Some New Clothes:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86420&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Collapse Search Over; Death Toll 1,127</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/13/bangladesh-to-allow-unions-for-garment-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Farid Hossain and Julhas Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building focused worldwide attention on the hazardous conditions in Bangladesh&#8217;s low-cost garment industry and strengthened pressure for reforms. On Monday, the government said it will begin allowing garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners. Swedish retailing giant H&#38;M also announced it has accepted a safety plan drawn up by labor groups that includes independent inspections of factories. Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense, told The Associated Press the search for bodies from the April 24 collapse was called off at 6 p.m. &#8220;Now the site will be handed over to police for protection. There will be no more activities from the fire service or army,&#8221; he said. Bulldozers and other vehicles have been removed from the building site, which will be fenced with bamboo sticks. Red flags were erected around the site to bar entry. The last body was found on Sunday night. A special prayer service will be held Tuesday to honor the dead, said army Brig. Gen. Mohammad Siddiqul Alam Shikder. For more than 19 days, the collapsed Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar had been the scene of frantic rescue efforts, anguished families and the overwhelming smell of decaying flesh. Miracles were few, but on Friday, search teams found Reshma Begum, a seamstress who survived under the rubble for 17 days on cookies and bottled water. Begum spoke to reporters Monday from the hospital where she is being treated. She told them she never expected to be rescued alive, and she vowed, &#8220;I will not work in a garment factory again.&#8221; Working conditions in the $20 billion industry are grim, a result of government corruption, desperation for jobs, and industry indifference. Minimum wages for garment workers are among the lowest in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86279&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh to Raise Wages for Garment Workers</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/12/bangladesh-to-raise-wages-for-garment-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — Bangladesh&#8217;s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused international attention on the textile industry&#8217;s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board will issue recommendations for pay raises within three months, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiky said. The Cabinet will then decide whether to accept those proposals. The wage board will include representatives of factory owners, workers and the government, he said. The April 24 building collapse, the world&#8217;s worst garment industry disaster, has raised alarm about conditions in Bangladesh&#8217;s powerful textile industry, which makes clothing for major retailers around the world. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh Industrial Accident: Scenes from a Terrifying Tragedy) Working conditions in the $20 billion industry are grim, a result of government corruption, desperation for jobs, and industry indifference. Minimum wages for garment workers were last raised by 80 percent to 3,000 takas ($38) a month in 2010 following protests by workers. Rescue workers said 1,125 bodies had been recovered by late Sunday from the ruins of the fallen Rana Plaza building, which housed five garment factories employing thousands of workers. Overnight rainstorms had halted the recovery efforts, but by midday the teams were back at work using hydraulic cranes, bulldozers, shovels and iron cutters as they continued looking for bodies more than two weeks after the eight-story building collapsed. &#8220;We are still removing the rubble very carefully as dead bodies are still coming up,&#8221; said Maj. Moazzem Hossain, a rescue team leader. &#8220;The dead bodies are decomposed and beyond recognition.&#8221; Hossain said they are trying to identify the bodies by their identity cards. &#8220;If we get the ID cards with the bodies then we are lucky,&#8221; he said. On Friday, the search teams received a much-needed boost when they found a young seamstress who had managed to survive for 17 days on dried food and bottled and rain water. (MORE: Fast, Cheap, Dead: Shopping and the Bangladesh Factory<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86118&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woman Found Alive in Bangladesh Rubble Recovering</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/11/woman-found-alive-in-bangladesh-rubble-recovering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Farid Hossain and Julhas Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — A woman found alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago is recovering in a hospital, but has trouble sleeping and sometimes grips the nurses&#8217; hands in panic, doctors said Saturday. After the euphoria over rescuing the 19-year-old seamstress, workers returned Saturday to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies, knowing there was little chance of finding any more survivors. The death toll from Bangladesh&#8217;s worst industrial disaster reached 1,090 and is still climbing. More than 2,500 people were rescued in the immediate aftermath of the April 24 disaster, but until Friday, crews had gone nearly two weeks without discovering anyone alive. (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) Then, in the midst of what had become a grim search for decaying bodies following the world&#8217;s worst garment industry disaster, rescuers found the seamstress, Reshma Begum, alive, providing a much-needed boost for the weary workers. On Saturday, several photographers were allowed into the hospital to take pictures of Begum. Lying on her bed under a sheet, she looked tired but alert. She was hooked up to a monitor and an intravenous drip. Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the head of the local military units in charge of rescue operations, said Begum told him she was fine. Physicians have advised her to have complete rest, he said. Col. Azizur Rahman, a doctor at the hospital, said she sometimes panics and holds the nurses&#8217; hands tightly. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want those memories to haunt her now, so we are not allowing anybody to ask her anything,&#8221; Rahman said. &#8220;She is not sleeping well. She is now being provided semi-liquid food,&#8221; he said. For 17 days, Begum lay trapped beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s Fahrenheit). She rationed food and water. She banged a pipe in a desperate attempt to attract attention and was fast losing hope of ever making it out alive. In the ruins of the collapsed eight-story<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86045&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh: Eight Killed in Factory Fire; Collapse Toll Hits 1,000</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/09/latest-bangladesh-garment-factory-disaster-spotlights-continuing-safety-concerns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was updated Friday morning with the latest figures. At least eight people perished Wednesday when a blaze raced through a garment factory in Bangladesh. The fire comes just weeks after the building collapse at Rana Plaza claimed more than 1,000 lives. Wednesday&#8217;s fire hit an 11-story industrial and residential complex in Dhaka, the capital. The factory, which was closed when the flames took hold, occupied the first two floors with dwellings situated above. A police official and the factory owner are reportedly among the dead. The latest incident is yet another reminder of the dangers facing workers in Bangladesh’s export-driven garment industry. Bangladesh has notoriously poor workplace inspection mechanisms, and repeated attempts to institute minimum safety regulations have been thwarted in the name of profit. (MORE: Dying for Some New Clothes: Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Tragedy) Just before 9 a.m. on April 24, the eight-story Rana Plaza, which contained five garment factories, collapsed in the Dhaka suburb of Savar. The building housed at least 3,500 workers and opened despite warnings to close after severe cracks appeared in walls. The owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, has already been brought before a court and had his assets seized. “Given the long record of worker deaths in factories, this [Rana Plaza] tragedy was sadly predictable,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. Bangladeshi workers receive among the world’s lowest wages — reaching about $37 per month after a series of violent protests in 2010 — and must toil in sweatshop conditions to fill orders catering to consumers in Europe and the U.S. In November, 112 garment workers died in a factory fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd. in Dhaka. There were then 41 other “fire incidents” in Bangladesh factories — killing nine workers and injuring more than 660 — in the following five months. (MORE: Bangladesh Factory Collapse Will Force Companies to Rethink Outsourced Manufacturing) Last week, the Walt Disney Co. announced that it would no longer produce licensed merchandise in Bangladesh in the wake of recent accidents. Yet some labor-rights activists<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85779&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Workers Find Survivor in Factory Rubble</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/officials-8-dead-in-bangladesh-garment-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Julhas Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — A woman buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror where the death toll is more than 1,000 and still rising. The woman survived in a Muslim prayer room in the basement of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews have been focused on recovering bodies, not rescuing survivors, for days. Trapped in wreckage finally exposed by heavy equipment, she waved a pipe to attract attention. The crews ordered the cranes and bulldozers to immediately stop work and used handsaws and welding and drilling equipment to cut through the iron rod and debris still trapping her. They gave her water, oxygen and saline as they worked to free her. When the woman, whom soldiers identified as Reshma, was freed after 40 minutes, the crowd erupted in wild cheers. She appeared to be in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal, and was rushed to a military hospital in an ambulance. (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military&#8217;s engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk. &#8220;She was fine, no injuries. She was just trapped. The space was wide,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Moyeen, an army official at the scene. She told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive. The religious aspects of the rescue &#8212; in a Muslim prayer room, on Islam&#8217;s day of prayer &#8212; was not lost on the ecstatic crowd. Hundreds of people who had been engaged in the grim job of removing decomposing bodies from the site raised their hands together in prayer for her survival. &#8220;Allah, you are the greatest, you can do anything. Please allow us all to rescue the survivor just found,&#8221; said a man on a loudspeaker leading the supplicants. &#8220;We seek apology for our sins. Please pardon us, pardon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85739&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building 17 days after the building collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh, on May 10, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Bangladesh Garment Disaster Death Toll Nears 900</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/07/bangladesh-garment-accident-death-toll-passes-700/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / JULHAS ALAM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — The death toll from the collapse of a building housing five garment factories has climbed to nearly 900, officials said Thursday, as authorities continue to search for more bodies two weeks after the worst garment manufacturing disaster in the world. Authorities had recovered 892 bodies from the rubble as of Thursday morning, according to police officials overseeing the recovery of victims from the eight-story Rana Plaza building, located in a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh&#8217;s capital. Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said. Following protests, authorities also began disbursing salaries and other benefits to survivors of the collapse. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh&#8217;s Worst Industrial Accident: Scenes From a Terrifying Tragedy) Also Wednesday, the European Union&#8217;s delegation to Bangladesh urged the government to &#8220;act immediately&#8221; to improve working conditions. Authorities said the government has closed 18 garment factories in recent days for failing to meet work and safety standards. There is no clear indication of how many bodies still remain trapped in the debris because the exact number of people inside the building at the time of the April 24 collapse is unknown. More than 2,500 people were rescued alive. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association earlier said 3,122 workers were employed at the five factories housed in the building, but it was not clear how many were there during the packed morning shift when it collapsed. Several stores and a bank were also in the building. Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, a top military official in the area, said the operation to recover bodies from the tangle of wreckage could continue for two to three more days before they would ask the local administration to take care of the site. Suhrawardy said they had to send 36 decomposing bodies to Dhaka Medical College Hospital to collect DNA samples because they were beyond identification. Authorities expected to send more bodies for testing in the coming days, with temperatures in the high 80s Fahrenheit (low 30s Celsius) and rain<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85367&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Building-Collapse Toll Tops 640</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/04/bangladesh-toll-547-search-becomes-more-gruesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 14:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Farid Hossain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint. The legal development comes as officials said Monday that the death toll from the country&#8217;s worst industrial disaster had reached 645. Sheuli Akter, the wife of Jahangir Alam, filed the complaint with Dhaka magistrate Wasim Sheikh, saying her husband and other workers were &#8220;pushed toward death&#8221; by building owner Mohammed Sohel Rana and two others. Alam was employed in New Wave Styles Ltd., one of the five garment factories housed in the eight-story Rana Plaza that collapsed April 24 as workers started their morning shift even though cracks had developed in the building. (MORE: Why Big Fashion Labels Shouldn’t Pull Out of Bangladesh) New Wave Styles owner Bazlul Adnan and local government engineer Imtemam Hossain were the two others accused in the case. Magistrate Sheikh ordered police to investigate the complaints, and local police chief Mohammed Asaduzzman said Monday that they would now investigate possible murder charges. A conviction for murder can result in a death sentence in Bangladesh. Nine people, including Rana and Adanan, have already been arrested on other charges. Rana faces charges such as negligence and illegal construction, which are punishable by a maximum of seven years in jail. By Monday afternoon, the death toll had reached 645, according to the police control room at the scene. It is not known how many people are still missing, as workers use heavy equipment to search through the rubble. There is still a stench around the collapse site from decomposing bodies. An architect whose firm designed the initial floors of the building said Sunday it had not been designed for heavy industrial work. Masood Reza, an architect with Vastukalpa Consultants, said they designed the building in 2004 as a shopping mall and not for industrial purposes. Officials say Rana illegally added three floors and allowed the garment factories to install generators. Vibrations<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85154&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Big Fashion Labels Shouldn&#8217;t Pull Out of Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/03/why-big-fashion-labels-shouldnt-pull-out-of-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr and Haroon Habib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine days after the fatal collapse of a garment-factory building on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, hundreds of photos of missing persons are still plastered to the walls of the Enam Medical College and Hospital. Exhausted relatives hold up pictures of their loved ones, showing them to passersby in the corridors in the hopes that somebody will have spotted them. At least 3,500 garment workers were inside the multistory Rana Plaza building when it crumpled in on itself on April 24. As of Wednesday, more than 430 people had been pulled dead from the rubble, and while officials say the number of missing is less than 150, many believe it is much higher. For the hundreds of survivors still recuperating in Enam, the terror of lying for days among dead co-workers is rivaled only by the fear of what lies ahead. Many have had one or more limbs broken or amputated and will be disabled for life, unable to continue working in one of the few industries in Bangladesh that offers regular — if dangerous — employment. The government has promised victims’ families compensation and the survivors future jobs, but workers who have been the financial lifeline of entire households are not comforted. Sujan Roy, a 22-year-old packaging worker, was found buried in the rubble five hours after the building collapsed, and has since had a gangrenous leg amputated. His job at the doomed factory building provided his family’s only source of income and helped send his younger sisters to school. “Now what will happen to them?” he wonders aloud. “Who will give me a job now?” (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) The Rana Plaza collapse is the not the first avoidable tragedy in Bangladesh’s booming garment industry, nor is it likely to be the last. Just a few months back, in November, 112 workers were killed in a deadly blaze at the Tazreen Fashions factory, where clothes were being produced for global companies like Walmart and Sears. While this latest disaster has kicked off a fresh round<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84972&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Official: Disaster Not &#8216;Really Serious&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/02/bangladesh-building-ccollapse-toll-rises-to-450/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / FARID HOSSAIN and JULHAS ALAM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — Bangladesh&#8217;s finance minister downplayed the impact of last week&#8217;s factory-building collapse on his country&#8217;s garment industry, saying he didn&#8217;t think it was &#8220;really serious&#8221; Friday, hours after the 500th body was pulled from the debris. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith spoke as the government cracked down on those it blamed for the disaster in the Dhaka suburb of Savar. It suspended Savar&#8217;s mayor and arrested an engineer who had called for the building&#8217;s evacuation last week, but was also accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the eight-story structure. The building owner was arrested earlier. (MORE: Why Big Fashion Labels Shouldn&#8217;t Pull Out of Bangladesh) The government appears to be attempting to fend off accusations that it is in part to blame for the tragedy because of weak oversight of the building&#8217;s construction. During a visit to the Indian capital New Delhi, Muhith said the disaster would not harm Bangladesh&#8217;s garment industry, which is by far the country&#8217;s biggest source of export income. &#8220;The present difficulties &#8230; well, I don&#8217;t think it is really serious &#8212; it&#8217;s an accident,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the steps that we have taken in order to make sure that it doesn&#8217;t happen, they are quite elaborate and I believe that it will be appreciated by all.&#8221; When asked if he was worried that foreign retailers might pull orders from his country, Muhith said he wasn&#8217;t: &#8220;These are individual cases of &#8230; accidents. It happens everywhere.&#8221; The April 24 collapse is likely the deadliest garment-factory accident in world history. It surpassed both long-ago disasters such as New York&#8217;s Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 workers in 1911, and more recent tragedies such as a 2012 fire that killed about 260 people in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh that same year that killed 112. At the site of the collapse, the official death toll reached 501 Friday and was expected to climb. Workers carefully used cranes to remove the concrete rubble and continue the slow task of recovering bodies. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84964&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bittersweet End for Missing in Bangladesh Collapse</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/02/430-dead-so-far-in-bangladesh-building-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 07:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Chris Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JURAIN, Bangladesh (AP) — As she knelt beside the linen-wrapped body and looked at the dress that she herself had purchased, Farida&#8217;s sobs of sorrow turned to tears of painful relief. She called her husband to speak the words she had been praying for during her week of searching: &#8220;I got her. I got her.&#8221; Just moments before, she had stopped workers from placing the body in one of the dozens of unmarked graves dug for victims of Bangladesh&#8217;s building collapse whose bodies were too battered to identify. With wails and sheer persistence she had pushed through the crowd of onlookers and forced officials to give her one last look at the row of decaying bodies to see if one might be her beloved sister-in-law. One was. &#8220;Oh, this is my Fahima! This is my Fahima!&#8221; she cried at officials. She pointed out the distinct spot on her sister-in-law&#8217;s forehead and the red salwar kameez outfit she had given her. Farida, who uses only one name, said Fahima had narrowly escaped the worst fire in the history of the country&#8217;s garment industry last year. This disaster, she did not escape. For Farida and countless other relatives of the garment workers who disappeared when Rana Plaza came crashing down, the past week has been one of tumbling expectations, as hope that their loved ones survived turned into fears they may have to return home without even a body to bury. Many are impoverished villagers who spent what little money they had to rush to a capital they had never seen, only to find that news was hard to come by and officials were often indifferent. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh&#8217;s Industrial Accident: Scenes From a Terrifying Tragedy) Without one central list to track the rescued and the dead, relatives waited outside the wreckage or crisscrossed the congested city to visit hospitals and makeshift morgues, armed with only photographs and prayers. Posters of the missing are plastered on walls and utility poles across the industrial suburb of Savar, where Rana Plaza had stood. The collage<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84816&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unidentified Victims of Bangladesh Collapse Buried</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 02:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Chris Blake and Farid Hossain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(JURAIN, Bangladesh) — Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified were buried in a mass funeral, a week after the eight-story building they worked in collapsed, killing at least 410 people and injuring thousands. Hundreds attended the traditional Muslim funeral and many more watched from the roofs of nearby buildings Wednesday as the bodies, rotting in the spring heat, were brought to the graveyard on the back of flatbed trucks. Onlookers covered their noses. One woman rushed through the crowd to the back of a truck wailing that one body was her sister&#8217;s. She begged to take it as family members held her to keep her from collapsing. Local men and boys recited a prayer for the dead. Then, 34 bodies were unloaded and placed in the graves. Cemetery workers have dug several long rows of graves where scores more unidentified bodies are expected to be buried in the coming days. &#8220;I would not have to take part in this if the government acted more responsibly,&#8221; said Rasel Islam, a 32-year-old man who attended the burial. Five garment factories were housed in the illegally constructed Rana Plaza building that collapsed April 24. The disaster and a garment factory fire five months earlier that killed 112 people exposed the unsafe conditions plaguing Bangladesh&#8217;s $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies many global retailers. At the Vatican, Pope Francis said he was shocked that some of the workers were living on 38 euros ($50) a month. &#8220;This was the payment of these people who have died &#8230; and this is called &#8216;slave labor,&#8217;&#8221; he said. Vatican Radio said the pope made the remarks during a private Mass at the Vatican. &#8220;Not paying a just (wage), not providing work, focusing exclusively on the balance books, on financial statements, only looking at making personal profit. That goes against God!&#8221; Francis was quoted as saying. He added: &#8220;People are less important than the things that give profit to those who have political, social, economic power. What point have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84804&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladeshis Demand Worker Safety As Toll Tops 400</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/01/bangladesh-marks-may-day-with-demands-for-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 07:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / CHRIS BLAKE and FARID HOSSAIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safety at work and the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory building that collapsed last week in the country&#8217;s worst industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring 2,500. A raucous procession of workers on foot, pickup trucks and motorcycles wound its way through central Dhaka on Wednesday. They waved the national flag and banners, beat drums and chanted &#8220;direct action!&#8221; and &#8220;death penalty!&#8221; (More: Dying for Some New Clothes: Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Tragedy) From a loudspeaker on the back of a truck, a participant spoke for the group: &#8220;My brother has died. My sister has died. Their blood will not be valueless.&#8221; May Day protests, customarily an opportunity for workers in this impoverished South Asian nation to vent their grievances, have taken on a poignant significance this year following the April 24 disaster. Five garment factories were housed in the illegally constructed, eight-story Rana Plaza that collapsed in this Dhaka suburb. Five months after a fire killed 112 people at another clothing factory, the collapse again exposed safety problems in Bangladesh&#8217;s garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annually and supplies retailers around the world. The death toll from the collapse passed 400 Wednesday, with 399 bodies pulled from the rubble and three of the injured dying in the hospital, police said. The owner of the building, Mohammed Sohel Rana, is being questioned by police while under arrest. He is expected to be charged with negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work, which is punishable by a maximum of seven years in jail. Authorities have not said if more serious crimes will be added. Workers protesting Wednesday demanded capital punishment for the 38-year-old Rana, a small-time political operative with the ruling Awami League party. &#8220;I want the death penalty for the owner of the building. We want regular salaries, raises and absolutely we want better safety in our factories,&#8221; said Mongidul Islam Rana, 18, who works in a garment factory<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84651&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court Seizes Property to Help Bangladesh Victims</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/30/many-bodies-still-in-collapsed-bangladesh-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A top Bangladesh court on Tuesday ordered the government to &#8220;immediately&#8221; confiscate the property of a collapsed building&#8217;s owner, as thousands of protesters demanding the death penalty for the man clashed with police, leaving 100 people injured. A two-judge panel of the High Court also asked the central bank to freeze the assets of the owners of the five garment factories in the building, and use the money to pay the salaries and other benefits of their workers. The order came after police produced the building owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, and the factory owners in court. The order did not elaborate but it was implied that the salaries of the dead victims would be paid to their relatives. At least 386 people were killed and 2,500 people escaped with injuries when the illegally constructed eight-story Rana Plaza collapsed on April 24. According to one estimate, about 1,000 people are missing, indicating that the death toll could end up in the neighborhood of 1,400. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh Factory Collapse Kills Hundreds) The collapse is the deadliest disaster to hit Bangladesh&#8217;s garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annually and supplies global retailers. Rescue efforts have now been suspended and authorities are using heavy machinery to clear the broken and crushed concrete slabs to get to the bottom floor, where emergency workers expect to find many more dead bodies. On Tuesday, clashes broke out again between thousands of garment workers and police in Savar, leaving at least 100 people injured, the United News of Bangladesh news agency reported. It said police attacked with sticks when the workers, who were demanding the death penalty for Rana and news of the missing people, tried to break the security cordon around the collapsed building. At least 22 of the injured were hospitalized, it said. The protesters also smashed at least 20 vehicles in the area, the agency said. Earlier, people had waited patiently at the site for news of missing relatives, holding their pictures and identity cards as they watched cranes lifting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84441&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Police Interrogate Collapsed Building&#8217;s Owner</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/29/collapsed-building-owner-may-face-7-years-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / FARID HOSSAIN and CHRIS BLAKE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — A Bangladesh court on Monday gave police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed last week, killing at least 382 people, as rescuers used heavy machinery to cut through the destroyed structure after giving up hopes of finding any more survivors. Mohammed Sohel Rana, who was arrested Sunday as he tried to flee to India, will be held for questioning on charges of negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work. His father, Abdul Khaleque, was also arrested on suspicion of aiding Rana to force people to work in a dangerous building. The illegally constructed, 8-story Rana Plaza collapsed in a heap Wednesday morning as thousands of people worked inside in five garment factories. About 2,500 survivors have been accounted for. Rana was brought to the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate&#8217;s Court in a bullet-proof vest, and led away to an unknown detention place after the magistrate granted a police request to hold him longer before filing formal charges. The crimes he is accused of carry a maximum punishment of seven years. More charges could be added later. The collapse was the deadliest disaster to hit Bangladesh&#8217;s garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annually and supplies global retailers. In renewed anger against conditions in garment factories — a mainstay of Bangladesh&#8217;s economy — hundreds of workers poured into the streets in the Dhaka suburb of Ashulia and set fire to an ambulance Monday, the Independent TV network reported. They also tried to set fire to a factory, it said. Authorities shut down all garment factories in the Ashulia and Gazipur industrial suburbs, including one that had reportedly developed cracks and was evacuated earlier. (PHOTOS: Bangladesh Factory Collapse Kills Hundreds) Volunteers, army personnel and firefighters have worked around the clock since Wednesday, mostly using their hands and light equipment to pull out survivors. Around midnight Sunday, authorities deployed hydraulic cranes and heavy cutting machines to break up the massive slabs of concrete into manageable pieces that could be lifted away. &#8220;We are proceeding cautiously.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84306&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No More Survivors Likely in Bangladesh Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/28/collapsed-building-owner-arrested-on-india-border/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hopes of finding any more survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago, and began using heavy machinery to remove the rubble and look for bodies, an official said Monday. At least 380 people were killed when the illegally-constructed, 8-story Rana Plaza collapsed in a heap on Wednesday morning along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. About 2,500 survivors have been accounted for. The building owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested Sunday in the western border town of Benapole while he was trying to flee to India. The collapse was the deadliest disaster to hit the garment industry in Bangladesh that is worth $20 billion annually, supplies global retailers and is a mainstay of the economy. Volunteers, army personnel and firemen have worked around the clock since Wednesday, mostly using hands and light equipment to pull out survivors. Around midnight Sunday, authorities deployed hydraulic cranes and heavy cutting machines to break up the massive slabs of concrete into manageable segments that could be lifted away. &#8220;We are proceeding cautiously. If there is still a soul alive, we will try to rescue that person,&#8221; said army spokesman Shahinul Islam. (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) &#8220;There is little hope of finding anyone alive. Our men went inside and saw some dead bodies in the ground floor. But no one was seen alive,&#8221; said Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed Khan, the chief of the fire brigade at the scene. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the site and a nearby hospital to meet with survivors on Monday, the first time since the disaster. Hasina had ordered the arrest of building owner Rana, who is a small-time political operative from her Awami League party&#8217;s youth wing. He was brought back by helicopter from the border town to the capital, Dhaka, where he is expected to be charged with negligence on Monday. He had permission to build a 5-story building but added three<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84147&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Building Collapse Death Toll Nears 350</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/27/2-arrested-as-death-toll-in-bangladesh-reaches-324/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Farid Hossain and Julhas Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days of being pinned under the increasingly unstable rubble. Still, in a boost for the rescuers, 29 survivors were pulled out Saturday, said army spokesman Shahinul Islam. Most of the victims were crushed by massive blocks of concrete and mortar falling on them when the 8-story structure came down on Wednesday morning &#8212; a time many of the garment factories in the building were packed with workers. It was the worst tragedy to hit Bangladesh&#8217;s massive garment industry, and focused attention on the poor working conditions of the employees who toil for $38 a month to produce clothing for top international brands. (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) Among those arrested Saturday were two owners of a garment factory, who a Dhaka court ruled can be questioned by police for 12 days without charges being filed. Also detained are two government engineers and the wife of the building owner, who is on the run, in an attempt to force him to surrender. Violent public protests continued sporadically in Dhaka and spread to the southeastern city of Chittagong where several vehicles were set on fire. Working round-the-clock since Wednesday through heat and a thunderstorm, rescuers on Saturday finally reached the ground floor from the top of the mountainous rubble through 25 narrow holes they have drilled, said Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed Khan, the head of the fire services. &#8220;We are still getting response from survivors though they are becoming weaker slowly,&#8221; he said, adding that rescue workers were now able to see cars that were parked at the ground level. &#8220;The building is very vulnerable. Any time the floors could collapse. We are performing an impossible task, but we are glad that we are able to rescue so many survivors.&#8221; He said the operations will continue overnight as chances<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84094&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying for Some New Clothes: Bangladesh&#8217;s Rana Plaza Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/26/dying-for-some-new-clothes-the-tragedy-of-rana-plaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the world wants an image that sums up the true cost of supplying big-name retailers with cheap, fast fashion, it only has to ponder the horrifying images coming out of Dhaka as thousands of frantic relatives and rescue workers continue to claw through the rubble of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster in a desperate search for survivors. Many people remain trapped in the remnants of the multistory Rana Plaza — home to several garment factories — after the building collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing over 300, according to the latest figures, and injuring more than 1,200. Bangladesh&#8217;s government declared an official day of mourning on Thursday and the death toll is expected to climb as more bodies are found. The first three floors of the building, located in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, contained around 300 shops. At least four garment factories — New Wave Bottoms, Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tack and Ethar Textile — occupied higher levels, employing around 3,500 people. On its website, New Wave claims to supply major Western retailers from the U.S. and Europe. Ethar claims to produce clothes for Walmart, but this has been challenged by the U.S. giant. Other firms have also distanced themselves from the disaster. Only Britain’s Primark freely admitted that it was using a factory in Rana Plaza. What is not in dispute, however, is the cruel reality of the global rag trade: in order for consumers in developed economies to enjoy tasteful clothes at affordable prices, low-paid workers in countries like Bangladesh must toil in dangerous, sometimes lethal, conditions. Officials say the building showed cracks on Tuesday, but the owner, Sohel Rana, a local leader of the ruling Awami League party’s youth wing, allegedly dismissed them as “nothing serious.” Activists claim the tragedy could have been avoided had staff in Rana Plaza been unionized and thus in a position to defy the order to ignore the danger. “The managers forced us to return to work, and just one hour after we entered the factory the building collapsed with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83988&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toll in Bangladesh Building Collapse Climbs to 290</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/25/workers-pinned-in-bangladesh-rubble-cry-for-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Crews bored deeper Friday into the wreckage of a garment-factory building that collapsed two days earlier, hoping for miracle rescues that would prevent the death toll from rising much higher. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said the death toll at the Rana Plaza building had reached 290, and that 2,200 people have been rescued. The garment manufacturers&#8217; group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed Wednesday. Hundreds of rescuers, some crawling through the maze of rubble, spent a third day working amid the cries of the trapped and the wails of workers&#8217; relatives gathered outside the building, which housed numerous garment factories and a handful of other companies. Police say cracks in the building had led them to order an evacuation of the building the day before it fell, but the factories ignored the order. (PHOTOS: Many Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) A military official, Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, told reporters that search and rescue operations would continue until at least Saturday. &#8220;We know a human being can survive for up to 72 hours in this situation. So our efforts will continue non-stop,&#8221; he said. Some people have pulled out of the wreckage alive, though severely weakened, more than a day after the collapse. Forty people had been trapped on the fourth floor of the building until rescuers reached them Thursday evening. Twelve were soon freed, and crews worked to get the others out safely, said Brig. Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations. Crowds at the scene burst into applause as survivors were brought out. The odor of decaying bodies at the site of the collapse, in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, is a constant reminder that many garment workers were not so lucky. The building remains surrounded with relatives desperately seeking their loved ones or mourning those lost, many of them angry with the pace of rescue efforts. Clashes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83895&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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