DHAKA (Reuters) - Textile manufacturers in Bangladesh said they might be forced close their factories unless the government acts to provide more cash incentives and restrictions on imported yarn and ...

Bangladesh’s exports to the Netherlands have surged over the past six fiscal years, more than doubling from $1.09 billion ...

Bangladesh has taken a progressive step forward by becoming the first South Asian nation to ratify International Labour ...

Snehal Shingavi analyzes the battle shaking Bangladesh's textile industry--and the international manufacturers who set up shop there to take advantage of low wages. OVER THE past month, Bangladesh's ...

BTMA president Showkat Aziz Russell communicated this appeal through an official correspondence addressed to NCC president and CEO Gary Adams and US embassy in Dhaka political/economic affairs ...

Currently, Bangladeshi apparel exports face an average 36% tariff in the US, while Chinese goods are taxed around 50%, a rate that could climb higher. Over the past decade, China's apparel shipments ...

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh – A fire raged through a Bangladesh textile mill, killing at least 51 people late Thursday in the three-story building inside an industrial park, officials said. The fire ...

Next month marks the second anniversary of one of the world's worst modern industrial accidents: the collapse of the Rana Plaza commercial building in the suburbs of Dhaka in Bangladesh. More than ...

“Woven Air: Dhakai Jamdani Textile From Bangladesh,” an exhibition of traditional Bangladeshi textiles noted for a weaving technique that creates surface decorations, opens at the UC Davis Design ...

BANGLADESH’s limited capacity to deal with the enormous waste generated by its textile sector may prove unsustainable as the global fashion industry faces pressure to reduce its environmental ...

Feb. 24, 2006, 7:18 AM EST / Source: Reuters A fire that gutted a textile mill in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong has killed at least 65 workers, many of them women, and left dozens missing, ...