It was only last year, after a hard-fought battle, that Bangladesh’s transgender community was given the right to vote while using transgender as their gender identity. This year, amidst the …
Bangladesh factories resume work, risking new coronavirus cases
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association says only 850 factories had opened by Thursday, using a limited number of workers who live nearby.
Singapore Was a Coronavirus Success Story—Until an Outbreak Showed How Vulnerable Workers Can Fall Through the Cracks
Asadul Alam Asif has watched nervously as Singapore reported more and more COVID-19 cases in migrant workers’ dormitories like the one where he lives. The 28-year-old Bangladeshi technician counted …
Coronavirus cases: Bangladeshi migrants surpass Maldivians in Maldives
The tally of Bangladeshi migrants in Maldives testing positive for Covid-19 has crossed the number of Maldivian nationals who contracted the disease. According to the Health Minis …
Coronavirus: Two million Bangladesh jobs ‘at risk’ as clothes orders dry up
High Street fashion emporiums around the world have closed their doors for lockdowns, but the largely forgotten victims are thousands of miles from the glass and steel-fronted shopping arcades. Sabina …
Bangladesh reopens 600 apparel factories despite virus risk
Nearly a month after Bangladesh ordered garment factories shuttered to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the industry is reopening hundreds of them despite risks the disease might spread …
120 Bangladeshis return from Kuwait
A total of 120 Bangladesh nationals will have returned home from Kuwait amid the coronavirus pandemic. A special flight of Jazeera Airways from Kuwait landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport …
Bangladesh restarts some garment factories, India debates an easing of restrictions
More than 500 garment factories in Bangladesh that supply to global brands reopened on Monday after a month-long shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, while in India calls grew for an easing …
Bangladesh textile workers flout coronavirus lockdown to demand wages
Hundreds of textile workers in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka took to the streets on Sunday demanding wages, flouting social distancing norms amid a nationwide lockdown to control the coronavirus pandemic …
Bangladesh Garment Factories Reopen, Defying Virus Lockdown
Hundreds of Bangladesh garment factories defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown to reopen on Sunday, raising fears the industry’s vulnerable and largely female workforce could be exposed to the …