Bangladeshi ship breakers defy court ruling
Desite legal declarations, 123 workers have died while dismantling ships in Chittagong in the past 13 years.
by Naimul Haq, Aljazeera.net
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The metal scrapping business is so lucrative it supplies some 1.5 million tonnes of the country's steel consumption of five million tonnes, said the World Bank study
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