Garment News
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Bangladesh: the tiger of Asia
Bangladesh has become a tiger among the Asian nations as no other country in the continent has grown as much...
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Govt sets export target at $54b
The government yesterday set the export target for the current fiscal year at $54 billion, up 15.20 percent than that...
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RMG worker found dead
Police recovered the hanging body of a readymade garment worker from Ashulia in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on...
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India inspects garment factories after pills expose
Authorities in southern India have started inspecting garment factories and spinning mills after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation found workers...
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Workers to get paid digitally soon: BGMEA
Garment factory owners will introduce digital salary disbursement to ensure female workers get full ownership of their earnings and more...
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Garment exporters not happy with budget proposals
Apparel exporters yesterday voiced their dissatisfaction with the 1 percent cash incentive handed to them in the proposed budget for...
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Dhaka Bank chairman re-elected
Reshadur Rahman has recently been re-elected chairman of Dhaka Bank.The election took place at the bank’s 353rd board meeting on...
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RMG workers to get salary, Eid bonus by June 2
Garment workers can expect to receive their Eid bonus by the end of this month and two-third the salaries for...
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Apparel export to US thrives on trade war
Apparel exports to the US, Bangladesh’s single largest export destination, jumped 15.57 percent to $1.63 billion in the first three...
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Pay workers’ wages, bonus before Eid: Monnujan
State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian on Monday urged owners of factories, including the RMG ones, to...
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Garment exports to US up 10pc
Garment exports to the US increased 10.10 percent year-on-year to $1.08 billion in the first two months of the year,...
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Other sectors to get same benefits as garment
The government will extend the same facilities that the garment sector currently enjoys to other sectors as it earnestly looks...
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Workers get 26pc less than they should: TIB
Garment workers are getting 26 percent less in basic pay than what they should have under the new salary structure,...
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Little progress in RMG workers' well-being
Bangladesh has made significant progress in ensuring workplace safety and increasing the wages and capacity of workers but there hasn't...
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Workers get $0.54 of an $18.25 polo shirt
Bangladeshi garment workers get only 2.96 percent, or just $0.54, of the $18.25 retail value of a polo shirt in...
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Exports continue good run in March
Exports continued its good run in March, fetching 9.51 percent more than a year earlier and getting into a comfortable...