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Bangladeshi Factory Disasters: Coming to an Australian Store Near You

Fast fashion is similar to fast food. Except, instead of screwing with your insides, it causes people in other parts of the world to work in shitty, sometimes deadly conditions. Full story

Meet Sohel Rana, the Most Hated Man in Bangladesh

As is typical of a certain kind of Bangladeshi garment magnate, the man who owned the factory that collapsed last week and killed over 400 people is crass, vulgar, nouveau riche, and involved in equal measure organized crime and high politics. Full story

A Factory Collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, and 300 People Were Crushed to Death

On Wednesday, more than 2,500 workers outside of Dhaka went to work in a factory where cracks had just recently appeared in the walls. The building collapsed. At this writing 300 people are confirmed dead, around 600 injured. Nine hundred people are still missing. Full story

The Rohingya Movement, as Seen by a Journalist in Burma

On Monday, we reported on the online activism surrounding the Rohingya genocide. Today we bring you an interview with a journalist on the frontlines in Burma, as well as an update on the RohingyaNOW movement as a whole. Full story

Explaining Bangladesh's Month of Massive Street Protests and Violence

The Shabagh protests are a liberal street festival with a morbid demand. Nooses and chants calling for accused war criminals to be hanged have become shorthand in a battle of what defines the nation, an unfinished struggle of identity for a pluralistic liberal society fused with Full story

Disasters Made in Bangladesh

Why Poor People Are Still Dying for Our Cheap T-Shirts

We still don’t know exactly how many of Swapna’s coworkers were killed at the Tazreen Fashions factory on November 24, 2012. She was sewing shorts—“half-pants,” they’re called in Bangladesh—when on the ground floor piles of yarn and acrylic fabric began to burn. Full story

World Peace Update

Last week's World Peace Update looked at the riots engulfing Slovenia, the trigger-happy Tunisian policemen who tried to blind the citizens of Siliana, and the looming possibility of Bashar al-Assad gassing what remains of his population to death with nerve agents. But Christmas Full story

Progress and Globalization in Bangladesh: The Tazreen Fashions Garment Factory Fire

The garment trade is at the forefront of the kind of industrial revolution that we are experiencing in Bangladesh today, which is why, if from the outside, we look like some Dickensian hellhole of sweatshops and smokestacks, the image is not altogether inapposite. Full story

Vice Fashion - Still Hungry

Bangladesh is a small country located just below India that somehow manages to exist as one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated and least developed countries in South-East Asia. Full story

The VICE Guide To Bangla Metal

Five Things About Four Bands

To the outsider it may look like a smelly bolthole of a cesspit, but actually Bangladesh has a lot of kick ass metal. Full story