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Maintain better working conditions in B'desh: US tells companies

The United States expects its companies to hold to the highest standards of working conditions in Bangladesh, even it is up to the individual companies to work with the government on these issues.

Bangladesh panel blames building owner for disaster

The head of an official inquiry into the collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said today the building's owner was the "main culprit" in the disaster because he violated building codes.

Over 1000: Bangladesh building collapse among largest ever

Bangladesh officials say building collapse death toll hits 1,034

Officials said 1,034 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the fallen factory building as of Friday morning.

Bangladesh building collapse toll hits 675

Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint.

Bangladeshis demand worker safety as building collapse toll tops 400

Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country's worst industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring 2,500.

25 dead as a building collapses in Bangladesh: TV report

An eight-storey block collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 500.