And in 2005, more than 60 people died when an illegally-constructed garment factory collapsed near Dhaka.
And in 2005, more than 60 people died when an illegally constructed garment factory collapsed near Dhaka.
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Cruz was among 300 immigrants arrested during a raid on a garment factory in New Bedford, Mass.
Garment factory owners and Western retailers are likely to face tough questions from labour rights campaigners in the coming weeks.
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Or, after the dust has settled on yet another human tragedy at a garment factory, will it be business as usual?
In a separate development, the overnight fire at the 11-storey garment factory in Dhaka's Mirpur district killed at least eight people.
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"I want the death penalty for the owner of the building, " said one marcher, 18-year-old garment factory worker Mongidul Islam Rana.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
They hesitated to enter the building Wednesday morning, said Abdur Rahim, who worked in a garment factory on the fifth floor.
The incident came just a few days after portions of another Cambodian garment factory collapsed, killing three people and injuring several others.
In 1975, he set up a garment factory that would eventually become Giordano and take the Asian retail clothing scene by storm.
She said her sister had come to Dhaka four years ago to work in a garment factory so as to become more independent.
Bangladeshi rescue workers say a large group of people has been found alive inside a garment factory on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
The woman, who was pulled out Friday from the remains of the garment factory, was found in that pool of water, rescue official Lt.
Rescuers have now found 430 bodies in the debris of the collapsed garment factory, as a mass Muslim funeral is held for unidentified victims.
The fire was Bangladesh's fourth major garment factory-related disaster since November.
The fire is Bangladesh's fourth major garment factory-related disaster since December.
No garment factory owner has been charged in any earlier accident.
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Heavy lifting gear is now being used to raise slabs of concrete at the Rana Plaza garment factory, where at least 380 died after Wednesday's collapse.
As she recounted her ordeal, her husband, Jahangir Kabir, who worked in a different garment factory, buried his head in his hands and fought back tears.
Merina Khatun, 21, was a sewing operator at a garment factory inside the eight-floor building which collapsed on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday.
Working in a garment factory had seemed like the best route to escape rural poverty, said Ms. Begum, who worked for three years at New Wave Style Ltd.
At Myint Soe's garment factory on the outskirts of Rangoon, rows of women hunch over sewing machines and irons under neon lights, pressing, folding, hemming, in stifling heat.
The tragedy, the deadliest incident in the history of the garment industry, came just months after a fire in another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers.
Mr Yunus also urged global fashion brands not to abandon the country, saying that garment factory workers subcontracted to produce their clothing should be seen as de facto employees.
In June, employees at a garment factory in Takhmau district north of Phnom Penh complained of receiving electric shocks from their sewing machines but were ordered to keep working.
The Tung Hai fire was the fourth disaster involving a Bangladeshi garment factory since November, when more than 100 people died in a fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd. outside Dhaka.
Rescue work at the site of the Rana Plaza garment factory continued for a sixth day on Monday, but army spokesman Shahinul Islam said "there is little hope of finding anyone alive".
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The Cambodian incidents follow several more-deadly accidents in Bangladesh, where more than 1, 000 people died in a garment building collapse last month and others have perished in garment factory fires over the past year.
Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November garment factory fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of workers inside and 112 people died.
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