Students at the University of Colorado are advocating for the school to cut ties with apparel companies that won’t sign an agreement to make working conditions safer in Bangladesh.
A local chapter of the United Students Against Sweatshops is calling on CU to terminate its contracts with VF Corp., the parent company for JanSport and VF Imagewear, which produce items adorned with the university logo.
Parker Haile, a CU sophomore studying chemical engineering, said he wants the university to put pressure on the compan...
Long-term goal is to secure, sustainable, competitive, affordable energy for all of Europe’s citizens while transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-friendly economy.
The European Commission today set out its strategy to achieve what it terms a “resilient Energy Union with a forward-looking climate change policy.”
The proposal sets out — in five interrelated policy dimensions — the goals of an energy union. The initiative also entails the detailed steps the Juncker Commission will take to achieve it, including: new legislation to redesign and overhaul the electricity market; ensuring more transparency in gas contracts; substantially developing regional cooperation as an important step towards an integrated market, with a stronger regulated framework; new legislation to ensure the su...
Long considered a disease of rich countries, cancer is no longer sparing Africa, where, to general indifference, the number of deaths is soaring.
The absence of prevention, poor infrastructure, lack of medical staff, and late diagnoses, but also an increase in life expectancy in low-income countries, have made cancer Africa’s new health scourge.
“Cancer has long been considered a disease of rich countries, for the simple reason that one must live long enough to get cancer,” said Pierre Bey, Director of the International Network for Canc...
The World Bank Vice President for South Asian region, Annette Dixon, said her organization will continue supporting Bangladesh to pursue the middle income dream.
She said this to reporters after her meeting with Finance Minister AMA Muhith at his office at Bangladesh Secretariat on Tuesday.
Dixon said she discussed the further support considering all facets of the country’s development.
She observed that the economy has been improving with an average 6 percent growth annually. “This helped heavily reduce poverty and raise living standard here.” Aro...
Tea prices in Bangladesh declined for a fourth straight week at a weekly auction on Tuesday due to supplies of poor grade leaf amid political unrest.
Bangladesh has been racked by political violence since anti-government protests turned violent last month over a disputed election a year ago.
More than 100 people have died and hundreds have been injured, most of them in firebomb attacks on vehicles, amid a violent nationwide transport blockade by the main opposition party aimed at toppling the government.
Demand from local buyers was sluggish as ...
Bangladesh ended January 2015 with 1.081 million PSTN telephony subscribers, down from 1.086 million subscribers in December 2014. BTCL led the market with 798,000 subscribers, followed by Ranks Telecom with 262,000 PSTN customers, figures from regulator BTRC show. BanglaPhone ended the month with 5,000 PSTN users, while World Tel had 15,000 PSTN subscribers at end-January this year.
Bangladesh ended January 2015 with 42.76 million active internet subscribers, down from 43.64 million internet subscribers at the ...
A local chapter of the United Students Against Sweatshops is calling on CU to terminate its contracts with VF Corp., the parent company for JanSport and VF Imagewear, which produce items adorned with the university logo.
Parker Haile, a CU sophomore studying chemical engineering, said he wants the university to put pressure on the compan...
