• 

  Alliance cuts ties with 9 more factories

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:06pm on May 04, 2017

  The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, a platform of North American buyers and retailers, cut business relations with nine more Bangladeshi readymade garment factories in...

• 

  50pc garment units yet to come under safety efforts

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:22am on April 24, 2017

  AROUND 50 per cent of the readymade garment factories in the country still remain under safety risk as nearly 2,200 units are yet to undergo...

• 

  Worker- factory owner trust stressed, buyers slammed over pricing

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:19am on April 24, 2017

  Experts, employers and labour leaders on Sunday said that improving trust between workers and factory owners and ensuring fairness in the readymade garment value chain...

• 

  Accord, Alliance cut ties with 217 RMG units

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:54pm on April 22, 2017

  Two separate groups of North American and European fashion retailers and buyers have so far severed business relations with 217 Bangladeshi readymade garment factories on...

• 

  EPZ units get full duty waiver on import of worker safety equipment

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:08pm on April 20, 2017

  The National Board of Revenue has granted full exemption for the investors in the country’s export processing zones from paying customs duties and other taxes...

• 

  Govt looks for formula for TUs in EPZs: Tofail

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:02pm on April 20, 2017

  Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday said the government would find out a ‘formula’ to introduce trade unions in the country’s export processing zones against...

• 

  B’desh RMG industry turning into ‘one of the safest’ in world: Alliance

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:03am on April 12, 2017

  Alliance for Bangladesh Workers Safety, the platform of North American retailers, on Tuesday observed that Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector was becoming safest in the world...

• 

  Exporters see no hope of India lifting jute anti-dumping duty

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 02:03am on April 12, 2017

  Bangladesh jute goods exporters see no hope of withdrawal of anti-dumping duty imposed by India on import of jute goods from Bangladesh as the deadline...

• 

  HC stays Accord decision to cut business with 4 RMG units

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:29pm on April 09, 2017

  The High Court has stayed the decision of European buyers group Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh for terminating business relations with four...

• 

  Apparel makers demand no source tax on export income for two years

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:27pm on April 06, 2017

  Apparel makers on Thursday demanded that the National Board of Revenue exempt RMG exporters from paying source tax on export proceeds for the next two...