Before the minimum wage was raised to Tk 12,500 in December, thousands of workers took to the streets to press home their demand for a minimum salary between Tk 23,000 and Tk 25,000.

While Bangladesh’s garment sector struggles  to transition from basic products to high-end items, too many companies are going in for the same international contracts, intensifying competition among themselves.

Walk down the road in Savar, Gazipur or Narayanganj in the morning hours and you will see a long line of workers heading to work.

Rising emphasis on recycling and sustainability from global brands is driving the cotton waste export from Bangladesh

Except knitwear, exports earnings have been in decline across the other seven major sectors according to data by EPB

Bangladesh is very good at making cotton clothes but non-cotton products could be bolstered by foreign investment

Unless a holistic approach is taken, the sector will continue to fall short of international standards.

Protect worker rights for workers’ and the industry’s sake

If we can feed the RMG industry with blood, sweat, and taxes year after year, surely we should be able to decide the bare minimum that it pays its workers?

While the prime minister is unofficially on her campaign trail, the opposition camp is on the run.

Rather than assuage the workers by announcing a respectable wage, the wage board has essentially fuelled workers’ outrage and made a mockery of the wage negotiation process

Latest amendment does not do enough to conform to international labour standards

If unrest hampers operation, factories will be shut, the association says

Who gave them the power or direction to shoot protesters in the first place?

If it’s left to garment suppliers, the green transition will take decades.

Will the wage board and our policymakers truly hear the stories of backbreaking work and heartbreaking debt of the garment workers, who have kept the economy going even at its worst phases?

Fixing instead of ditching clothing is gaining momentum.

Why should there be two different food standards for two social strata?

Intellier, the IT wing of Team Group, has emerged as a frontrunner in Bangladesh’s information technology landscape.

In the heart of Bangladesh, where the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers converge, a story of business prowess unfolds: not just of commercial success, but of a vision that transcends the ordinary.