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DHAKA: Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike on Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers say are among the lowest in the world. Most tea workers are low-caste Hindus, the descendants of labourers brought to the plantations by colonial-era British planters. The minimum wage for a tea …

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