Up to 44 developing countries and their partners committed on Friday to accelerate efforts to provide basic sanitation to 2.5 billion people and clean drinking water for 750 million across the globe.
At the Sanitation and Water for All high-level meeting in Washington, D.C., participants renewed their promise to work toward universal access to clean water and toilets by 2030, as well as eliminate open defecation. The pledges include over 260 concrete actions to strengthen institutions, improve planning, and increase domestic spending and donor investment in water and sanitation.
When Ashraful decided he wanted a better education, he didn’t realize that it would drive him away from his family and lead him to a life on the streets, selling newspapers for a pittance just to get by.
Ashraful knew what he wanted in life — a better education. And for the then 14-year-old, that opportunity lay in the busy metropolis of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Filled with hope and determination, Ashraful left his family and the village he’d known his whole...
Garment factory owners in Bangladesh are suffering from rising costs primarily due to the increased wages of labourers amid international calls for better working conditions after the RanaPlaza disaster.
The owners nearly doubled wages and have less money for safety improvements at factories, as their profits are squeezed. In addition, a number of global retailers who source from those factories are not willing to share the rising costs, report agencies.
The cost concerns come as Bangladesh’s garment export industry is facing stiff competition from other low-cost Asian countries such as India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia.
The Australian job search site Seek has forked out $5 million in cash for a 25 per cent stake in fast-growing Bangladeshi jobs site Bdjobs, as it continues its growth strategy in Asia.
The acquisition was made using Seek's cash reserves, facilitated via a proportional sell-down by early stage investors.
It grants the Australian company representation on Bdjobs' board as well as typical protections relevant to a minority shareholding.
The managing director of Seek's international division,...
He was addressing non-resident Bangladeshis in the San Francisco Bay Area during a town-hall meeting organized by Agami, a San FranciscoBay area-based non-profit organization working to promote education for the underprivileged chil...
