{"id":19563,"date":"2020-06-21T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/21\/my-life-became-a-disaster-movie-the-bangladesh-garment-factory-on-the-brink"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T09:00:12","slug":"my-life-became-a-disaster-movie-the-bangladesh-garment-factory-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19563","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My life became a disaster movie&#8217;: the Bangladesh garment factory on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One factory owner tells how coronavirus cancellations by UK brands have seen him struggle to pay wages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> As high streets across England opened this week and hundreds of people jostled through the doors of clothing shops, thousands of miles away in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Mostafiz Uddin is worrying about how to pay his workers\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n<p> At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denimexpert.com\/\">Denim Expert<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denimexpert.com\/\"> Ltd<\/a>, the sustainable clothing company he founded in 2009 as a sustainable apparels clothing company, hundreds of boxes of jeans are crammed against walls and packed to the ceiling. These boxes contain 38,000 pairs of Burton jeans, worth more than \u00a3200,000 that were ready for shipment in early March. But as the UK went into lockdown that month, an email pinged into his inbox that tore his life apart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/21\/my-life-became-a-disaster-movie-the-bangladesh-garment-factory-on-the-brink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One factory owner tells how coronavirus cancellations by UK brands have seen him struggle to pay wagesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage As high streets across England opened this week and hundreds of people jostled through th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,1069,576,833,1453,59,335,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions\/19564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}