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Photo: Allison Joyce / Getty Images In the large industrial cities Bangladesh businessmen closed more than 150 factories on production of clothes because of protests of workers concerning increase salaries, the local police of information agency "Agence France-Presse" reported. Meetings of working garment factories in District of Gazipur and Savart began at the end of October. People were dissatisfied with a low salary. Workers of the first category received 8200 taka ($74), to other workers paid still the smaller sums. Official average salary over the country in 2023 makes $243. Employees of garment factories demanded to lift the minimum monthly...