Bangladesh is the world's second largest exporter of apparel after China. Cheap wages and lucrative trade deals have made the garment industry the country's main livelihood for millions of people, most of them women.

Yangon - A boat carrying at least 70 Muslim Rohingya capsized off the coast of Myanmar Sunday. Aid workers say that only eight survivors have been rescued.

A recent survey claims one Asian man in four admits to committing rape. Now someone has taken a critical look at these figures.

Dhaka - Hundreds of garment workers who were injured during the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in April are still awaiting compensation.

On the eve of the six month anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, United Students Against Sweat Shops are launching a new movement on college campuses across the the U.S. to demand an end to deathtrap factories.

Raleigh - Many fish from Vietnam and China contain formaldehyde, which has been known to cause cancer, according to tests. The study showed 25 percent of tested fish in supermarkets contained the carcinogen, and all of it came from Asia.

Derby - One British charity has found an ingenious method of helping airport security staff save potential victims of forced marriage.

Dhaka - Advertising and product endorsement has been big business since the 19th Century, but are endorsements all they appear to be, celebrity or otherwise?

Dhaka - The sentencing of a top Islamist leader to 90 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bangladesh 1971 war of independence triggered widespread protests in different parts of Bangladesh.

Gazipur - Workers at a garment factory stopped working and demanding that a ghost be removed from their building, after a female worker said she was attacked by a ghost in a toilet. Similar events have also occurred in recent weeks involving hundreds of workers.

Over the weekend students, workers, and community members in more than 35 cities across the world took action against Gap and Walmart as part of an "International Day of Action to End Deathtraps."

Dhaka - More than 140 workers, mostly women, fell ill Sunday at two different garment factories in Bangladesh. They all reportedly drank contaminated water, police said.

In her first interview since being pulled from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building, Reshma Begum said bosses forced them to work despite cracks in the building they worked in. She said she'll "never again work in a garment factory:"

A survivor has been found in the ruins of the Bangladesh garment factory, which collapsed on Wednesday, 24th April, a day after the building's owner said it would last for a century.

Dhaka - The photo captures a haunting scene amid the ruins of the collapsed Bangladesh garment factory in Savar, near Dhaka, an incident killing at least 800 people.The disturbing photo shows two dead victims locked in a final embrace.

As the death total in the recent collapse of a Bangladesh clothing factory soars to over 900, another garment factory fire has killed 8 people yesterday.

Dhaka - At least 27 people are dead in Bangladesh's capital city after clashes between police and protesters demanding the government enact an anti-blasphemy law that would punish those who defame Islam with death.

The US State Department has acknowledged that US clothing companies were being supplied by the garment factory that suffered a fatal collapse.

Dhaka - Arrests have begun and the hunt is on for others held responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people as a consequence of the building collapse in Bangladesh, in which some 3,000 garment workers were trapped.

Whether you buy top brands or cheap and cheerful, there is a one in five chance that the clothes you are wearing have blood on them. If you didn't know, the United States receives 23 percent of all garment products made in the death traps of Bangladesh.