The day aggrieved garment workers in Dhaka took to the streets last week protesting the recently announced minimum wage for them, BBC World News ran a segment showing similar protests in Cambodia, where garment workers, mostly women, were demonstrating demanding raising their minimum wage from the current $54 a...
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Can the garment workers be subdued?
The mystique of PM’s son
In early 2009, only days after the Awami League-led alliance returned to power with a thumping majority, a Bangladeshi lobby group organised a seminar in collaboration with Johns Hopkins’s University’s South Asia division here in Washington.
I covered the seminar not so much for its title “Future challenges for Bangladesh”, but mostly out of interest...
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