TOIL AND RISK: Bangladeshi labourers unload a heavy steel plate in a dockyard beside the Buriganga River in Dhaka. Twenty-eight dockyards occupying 30.96 acres of the Buriganga foreshore have been in operation for the last 50 years without any authorisation or guidelines, polluting the river and encroaching into the riverbank, reducing its navigability. — AFP
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