Consumerism stirs age-old beauty biases in rural Bangladesh
Most commercial products don’t reach rural communities. But now, about 7,000 women in these communities are selling products and a new consumer culture to the world’s poorest people. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the controversy surrounding commercial ideas of beauty in the conservative rural areas of Bangladesh.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: bringing cosmetics, consumerism, and a little controversy to women in rural Bangladesh.
‘Long way to go’ in reform of Bangladesh’s garment industry since factory disaster
Questions linger a year after Bangladesh’s garment factory collapse
Bangladesh lacks push India’s textile exports to US up
India’s textile and garment exports to the US are up a sharp 6 per cent in the first four months of 2014, the growth being largely attributed to a dip in shipments from Bangladesh in the wake of heightened safety compliance from global buyers after last year’s tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Dhaka.
While a slowdown in Chinese supplies is a factor that has continued to help India as well as Vietnam in claiming the top two slots in terms of the rate of growth in shipments to the US, this has been at the cost of a perceptible dip in the export growth of Bangladesh — a very strong player in the garments segment — during the period (-0.21 per cent).
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Women should not wear bikinis on Goa beaches: Indian Minister
A cabinet minister in holiday state of India draws outrage from women’s activists after suggesting bikinis should be banned because they ‘attract’ sexual harassment. Sudhin Dhavalikar has said that bikinis should be banned from public beaches in Goa
Female visitors to the beaches of Goa should not wear bikinis for their own safety, the minister has insisted, warning that scantily clad women “attract” sexual harassment.
In comments that have outraged Indian women’s activists, Goa’s public works minister, Su...
In comments that have outraged Indian women’s activists, Goa’s public works minister, Su...
Germany OKs national minimum wage
The German Parliament has approved the introduction of the country's first national minimum wage, which will guarantee most workers in Europe's biggest economy at least 8.50 euros ($11.60) per hour starting next year.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is taking the step at the insistence of her coalition partners since last December, the center-left Social Democrats. Some employers will have two years to phase in the minimum wage, which takes effect Jan. 1.
Merkel's conservatives have gone along with the plan unenthusiastically; for d...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is taking the step at the insistence of her coalition partners since last December, the center-left Social Democrats. Some employers will have two years to phase in the minimum wage, which takes effect Jan. 1.
Merkel's conservatives have gone along with the plan unenthusiastically; for d...
Four more border haats approved in Meghalaya
The haats are aimed at increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents
India and Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more border haats along the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya with an aim of increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents.
"The Government of India and Government of Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more haats along the border, apart from the two which have been in operation for the past three years," Meghalaya Chief Secret...
"The Government of India and Government of Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more haats along the border, apart from the two which have been in operation for the past three years," Meghalaya Chief Secret...
BPC to import 1.58m mt of oil products in H2 2014
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) plans to import around 1.58 million mt of oil products from eight term suppliers during the second half of 2014, down 31.30% from the first half, a senior BPC official told Platts Tuesday.
BPC completed term negotiations with eight Asian companies last week, he said.
The drastic fall in imports of 180 CST high sulfur fuel oil with up to 3% sulfur and 0.25% sulfur gasoil are behind the overall decline in the second half, the official said.
BPC will import 380,000 mt of HSFO in the second half, down 27% fr...
The drastic fall in imports of 180 CST high sulfur fuel oil with up to 3% sulfur and 0.25% sulfur gasoil are behind the overall decline in the second half, the official said.
BPC will import 380,000 mt of HSFO in the second half, down 27% fr...
