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Aid group projects 48,000 births in crowded Rohingya camps

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An international aid agency projects that 48,000 babies will be born this year in overcrowded refugee camps for the Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar. Save the Children warned in a...
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Amnesty accuses Myanmar of clear campaign of ethnic cleansing

9th - Higher Ed
Myanmar security forces and vigilante mobs are torching Muslim Rohingya villages in an orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing Amnesty International says
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Hoegh CEO Paves the Way for China to Become the Biggest LNG Importer

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Dec.20 -- In this week's "Commodity in Chief," Bloomberg's Alix Steel talks with Sveinung Stohle, president and chief executive officer of Hoegh LNG Holdings. China will probably have to triple or quadruple its offshore natural gas...
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Hunger and poverty trap Rohingya trying to flee Myanmar

9th - Higher Ed
In the north of Myanmar's Rakhine state hundreds of Rohingya encamped on a beach cling to thinning hopes of safe passage to Bangladesh before their food runs out
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Clashes as garment workers protest in Dhaka

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Bangladesh police used water cannon to disperse thousands of garment workers demonstrated for better wages for a fourth day Wednesday, shutting down factories on the outskirts of the capital.
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Bangladesh police charge 13 over

9th - Higher Ed
Bangladesh police lays the first charges over the nations deadliest ever garment factory fire 13 months ago accusing the owners and 11 others of an offence punishable by life imprisonment CLEAN : Bangladesh police charge 13 over on...
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Swathes of central Bangladesh flooded after heavy monsoon rains

9th - Higher Ed
Aerial show the extent of flooding in central Bangladesh, with villagers wading through floodwaters (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : 25,000 lose jobs as Bangladesh shuts down jute factories

9th - Higher Ed
About 25,000 workers have been made unemployed in Bangladesh after the government decided to shut down 25 state-run mills processing jute, the natural fibre used to make items such as bags and carpets, as the country reels from the...
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Bangladesh: Aftermath of huge fire in Rohingya refugee camp

9th - Higher Ed
Thousands of people were left homeless after a fire gutted parts of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, destroying about 1,200 houses, police said on Sunday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Survivors are rescued after Rohingya refugee boat sinks off Bangladesh

9th - Higher Ed
Survivors are being rescued by navy officials after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather off the coast of Bangladesh (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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WRAP Bangladeshi PM visit Gandhi memorial, meets President

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1. Car carrying Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia arriving, Zia being received by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 2. Cutaway, cameraman 3. Zia and Singh posing for photos 4. Mid shot of Zia 5. Wide shot guard of honour 6....
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Muslims across globe protest against movie considered insulting to Islam

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++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately...
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Owners of garment factory where 112 killed give themselves up to police

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The two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory who are facing homicide charges for a 2012 fire that killed 112 workers surrendered to a court on Sunday and were denied bail. Police filed homicide charges on 22 December against 13 people...
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OXFAM moving oral rehydration saline into cyclone affected areas

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1. Various of truck backing into Oxfam's aid storage area 2. Various of cartons containing saline being loaded onto truck 3. Various of saline cartons 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Heather Blackwell, Oxfam Country Programme Manager: "Its a...
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Workers injured in building collapse talk of their experiences

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1. Wide of heavy machinery moving debris from collapsed Rana Plaza factory building 2. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mohammad Mobarak, teacher at local madrasa who helped in rescue effort: "We asked doctors what could we do after cutting off limbs?...
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US Assistant Secretary of State urges Bangladesh's feuding politicians to hold talks

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A US official on Monday said more needed to be done to improve the safety conditions and labour rights in the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh. On a visit to Dhaka, the US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal said...
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Hindus clash with police at anti-Bangladesh demo.

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1. Wide shot protestors carrying effigy of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, running towards Bangladesh High Commission building 2. Mid shot effigy, protestor chanting anti-Bangladesh slogan 3. Protestors trying to cross security...
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SYND 9-2-72 DOUGLAS HOME HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT BANGLADESH

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British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home speaking at press conference about Bangladesh 1 British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home and Indira Gandhi chatting 2 gv exterior conference hall 3 SOUNDBITE: (English) Douglas...
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Bangladesh - Campus violence

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The vice-chancellor at strife-torn Dhaka University in Bangladesh resigned on Saturday (24/8) amid renewed shooting that left an opposition student activist in hospital with bullet wounds. Five days of politically-linked campus violence...
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Fire breaks out in rubble of collapsed building

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1. Wide of rescuers carrying alive worker down staircase of collapsed building 2. Various of rescuers recovering the dead bodies through the drilled holes 3. Mid of rescuers trying to save worker through drilled hole 4. Mid of military...
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Workers who survived factory collapse take to the streets to demand compensation

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Bangladesh began compiling details on Monday of the victims of the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse as part of a compensation deal, but dozens of people took to the streets demanding a more complete accounting of the disaster. The...
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Police try to prevent memorial being erected 100 days after building collapse that killed hundreds

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1. Various of relatives of victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse and labour rights activists chanting slogans and demanding that a memorial structure be made at the collapse site as well as complete compensation for workers and...
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ILO / BANGLADESH

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1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations 2. Wide shot, Press Room 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert Houngbo, Deputy Director-General, International Labour Organization: "There is a determination to turn the page, to do something; we can...