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Bangladeshs urban slums swell with climate migrants
2016-05-24 14:06:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press: Abdul Aziz, 35, arrived in the capital Dhaka in 2006 after losing all his belongings to the mighty Meghna River. Once, he and his family had lived happily in the village of Dokkhin Rajapur in Bhola, a coastal district of Bangladesh. Aziz had a beautiful house and large amount of arable land. But riverbank erosion snatched away his household and all his belongings. Now he lives with his four-member family, including his 70-year-old mother, in the capital`s Malibagh slum. "Once we had huge arable...
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Bangladeshs first DTH service RealVU set in operation
2016-04-28 15:00:25| Digital TV News
BEXIMCO Communications has launched Bangladeshs first Direct-to-Home (DTH) service under the brand name RealVU. RealVU is available everywhere across the country, with sales outlets in Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong.
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Bangladeshs Growing Coal Deals Prompt Criticism, Protests over Environment
2016-04-11 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundt: When most people think of Bangladesh`s most prolific industries, it`s garments - not coal - that comes to mind. The tiny country of Bangladesh, nestled in the armpit of India`s easternmost provinces, is second only to China in garment exports. Its booming electrified clothing industry is at the mercy of the country`s electricity grid, yet most of the current is supplied by gas exploration, not coal.That`s because, according to SourceWatch, a meager 2.5 percent of Bangladesh`s electricity is supplied...
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Bangladesh's M&J Group innovates with sustainability tools
2016-03-22 10:24:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Bangladesh garment manufacturer M&J Group has implemented a new sustainability tool at its facility in Dhaka that measures resource consumption in production, as part of a raft of new environmental innovations.
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March against coal plant threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest
2016-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the countrys capital, Dhaka, to the worlds biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest. The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests. No sensible person will deny that there...
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