Dear FriendsHeavy Flood in Sri LankaBadly effected to the FTZ workers Katunayake Due to the unexpected weather change at the Bengal bay Sri Lanka got gales for last 5 days and lead to a heavy flood in island wide especially at Western province. According to the information sources there are around 480000 victims and 18 deaths has been reported up to now. The Free Trade Zone katunayake which b

The official says the Lee Myung-bak administration’s limit on wage payments to full-time unionists does not conform to international standards » Roland Schneider, senior policy advisor at the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation

YANGON: A top U.S. official visiting Myanmar issued a strong warning Monday against its military regime buying arms from North Korea in defiance of a U.N. embargo, and also said that Washington believes that its election plans lack legitimacy.Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asia, read a s

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell had a one hour meeting on Monday with detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and also held talks with colleagues of her former National League for Democracy (NLD) at a government guesthouse in Rangoon. Suu Kyi was driven from her home to the meeting pla

Sylhet May 8 – Sylhet residents brought out a procession on Saturday celebrating the victory of Rushanara Ali, elected as the first Bangladeshi MP in the British polls. The procession, organised by the Sylhet City Corporation, began at around 12:30pm from Nagar Bhaban and ended at the Central Shaheed

The measures are expected to result in significant reductions in the number of full-time unionists in the workplace » Members of labor unions sit in a corridor of the National Labor Relations Commission during the special committee meeting to decide new regulations for paid