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                    [Title] => Violence continues over pay hikes in Bangladesh
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Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday in the third day of clashes with thousands of garment workers demanding better minimum wages amid escalating tension over the country's main export business.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-24 03:27:07 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432364 [AuthorName] => Julhas Alam [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 940577 [Title] => Bangladesh factory collapse death toll hits 1,034 [Summary] =>

The death toll from a garment factory building that collapsed more than two weeks ago outside the Bangladeshi capital soared past 1,000 on Friday, while the list of the dead from a fresh fire at a sweater manufacturer showed the entanglement of the industry and top Bangladeshi officials.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-10 12:46:15 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432364 [AuthorName] => Julhas Alam [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4082/collapsek.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 939795 [Title] => Bangladesh garment disaster death toll reaches 761 [Summary] =>

The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other benefits to the survivors in the country's deadliest industrial disaster.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-08 12:56:56 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432364 [AuthorName] => Julhas Alam [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://www.apexchange.com/Content/preview/2013/20130507/15/0e6cac3b57792f0f310f6a7067009dc7.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 878003 [Title] => Bangladesh workers protest; families of dead plead [Summary] =>

Hundreds of garment workers protested Friday outside a Bangladeshi factory where 112 people were killed by a fire, demanding compensation for their lost salaries, while relatives of those who did not survive gathered nearby, hoping against hope to find their remains.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-01 10:19:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 639115 [Title] => Dozens killed in Bangladesh factory fire; 100 hurt [Summary] =>

Dozens of people were killed after a devastating blaze raced through a garment factory that supplies major multinationals such as Gap and JCPenney near Bangladesh's capital.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-15 08:28:34 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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