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Point-Counterpoint
 
The garment crisis: Who done it?
LABOUR protests that spread from a sweater factory in Ghazipur on 11 May to Savar EPZ, Ashulia and Dhaka on 22 May, erupted in state violence and vandalism by 23 and 24 May.
 
Between The Lines
Charting a new course?
WHETHER the optimism exuded by Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif is misplaced or not is yet to be tested. But both, whom I met at London a few days ago, are brimming with confidence.
 
For compiling a pro-people, not election, budget
THE national budget of 2006-2007 fiscal year falls under the turbulent period of national election. It also falls under the regimes of caretaker government and freshly elected government.
 
Reducing the apparel supply chain costs
In the last five years, the apparel supply chain has faced ever-decreasing margins and is currently working with less than 5 percent net margins.
 

 
   
 
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