Ship-breaking workers need more safety measures
In late November, a 52,000-ton barge eased into this ramshackle port on the Bay of Bengal and came to rest on a wide, muddy beach.
After nearly four decades crisscrossing the oceans for an American offshore engineering company, the DB-101 did not come to erect another oil rig or lay miles of undersea pipe.
It came here to die.
For scores of large commercial vessels that reach the end of their seagoing lives each year, the final port of call is Chittagong in southern Bangladesh, home to the world’s largest — and least regulated — ship-breaking industry.
Chinese hackers accused of stealing $ 100m from BB
The Bangladesh central bank says it is working to recover some $100 million allegedly stolen by Chinese hackers from an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Authorities have given few details about how the money disappeared. But Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith says authorities are considering suing the U.S. bank over the money’s apparent transfer to accounts in the Philippines, reports AP.
Muhith said the U.S. bank has “no way to avoid their responsibility.”
The New York Fed put out a brief statement through its Twi...
Muhith said the U.S. bank has “no way to avoid their responsibility.”
The New York Fed put out a brief statement through its Twi...
Women changing exploitative garment industry
Tuesday marked International Women’s Day, and demonstrations of solidarity or activism were held around the world. In Bangladesh, garment workers demanded equal pay, an end to violence against women, and safe working conditions. Women make up 85% of garment workers in the country, often taking home the pitifully small minimum monthly wage of $68. That is a far cry from the $113 per month that the E.U. states is needed to cover a worker’s basic needs, and well below a real living wage.
Exacerbating that dismal state of affairs is the fact that many garment workers put in 60-140 hours of overtime per week, but are often cheated of the overtime pay. Many are denied
RMC awards Cheshire doctor
Dr. Ehsan Hoque, executive director of Distressed Children and Infants International, a child-advocacy organization based in Cheshire, has received the Humanitarian Award by Rajshahi Medical College (RMC).
Hoque, a Cheshire resident, founded the nonprofit organization at Yale University in 2003 to reduce poverty, hunger, child labor and preventable blindness. DCII is responsible for more than 33,000 eye screenings, more than 5,000 eye surgeries, and more than 1,000 mothers given pre-natal and post-natal care.
“I have led a very fortunate life,” Hoque said in a release. “I have food and water every day, 
Russian cargo plane crashes in Bangladesh
A Russian Antonov An-26 cargo plane carrying four people crashed Wednesday morning in southeastern Bangladesh, according to reports. The plane’s pilot has been killed, a co-pilot was critically injured and two others are missing.
According to China's Xinhua News Agency, the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district.
The deceased pilot's body was recovered from the Bay of Bengal and the second pilot, a Ukrainian national, was seriously injured, Tas...
According to China's Xinhua News Agency, the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district.
The deceased pilot's body was recovered from the Bay of Bengal and the second pilot, a Ukrainian national, was seriously injured, Tas...
Five factors define efficient tower markets
Five common features such as clear licensing policy and less restriction are mainly considered to define a tower market as “efficient”, according to a report.
It defined the market as efficient where more than 50 per cent of towers are owned by towercos while tenancy ratio of 1.5x and above for towers owned by towercos.
The independent report “Global Trends in Tower Markets” prepared by Analysys Mason and commissioned by edotco Group focuses on the structures and characteristics of efficient tower 
markets in six count...
markets in six count...
