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Trade unions and campaigners are calling for the minimum wage to be raised to 23,000 taka ($208 USD) a month to cover basic needs.
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Emily Chan, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
The family eventually paid a ransom of 300,000 taka ($2,800) to get him back — a fortune in the camps.
—Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
Baher had to pay 300,000 Bangladeshi taka, or about $2,804, right away.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
Police have also announced an award of 2 million taka (about $19,350) for tracing the convicts.
—Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
Divisional commissioner of Chattogram, Asharf Uddin, said that families of those killed would be compensated with 50,000 Bangladeshi taka ($560), while those injured and their families will be compensated as well.
—Sophie Jeong, CNN, 5 June 2022
In Bangladesh, for example, where the average wage of garment workers increased significantly during the 2010s, pay fell by 289 Bangladesh taka (USD $3.4), or about 3% in 2020.
—Michael Posner, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
The shares rose 50% to 15 taka at 10:12 a.m. according to data on the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s website.
—Arun Devnath, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
After Artem Dzyuba's penalty had cancelled out the own goal from Sergei Ignashevich that opened the scoring, Russia spent most of the game on the defensive, maintaining a rigid structure that Spain's tiki-taka was powerless to penetrate.
—SI.com, 1 July 2018
Emily Chan, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
The family eventually paid a ransom of 300,000 taka ($2,800) to get him back — a fortune in the camps.
—Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
Baher had to pay 300,000 Bangladeshi taka, or about $2,804, right away.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
Police have also announced an award of 2 million taka (about $19,350) for tracing the convicts.
—Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
Divisional commissioner of Chattogram, Asharf Uddin, said that families of those killed would be compensated with 50,000 Bangladeshi taka ($560), while those injured and their families will be compensated as well.
—Sophie Jeong, CNN, 5 June 2022
In Bangladesh, for example, where the average wage of garment workers increased significantly during the 2010s, pay fell by 289 Bangladesh taka (USD $3.4), or about 3% in 2020.
—Michael Posner, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
The shares rose 50% to 15 taka at 10:12 a.m. according to data on the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s website.
—Arun Devnath, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
After Artem Dzyuba's penalty had cancelled out the own goal from Sergei Ignashevich that opened the scoring, Russia spent most of the game on the defensive, maintaining a rigid structure that Spain's tiki-taka was powerless to penetrate.
—SI.com, 1 July 2018
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“Taka.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taka. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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