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Phones are a feminist issue in BangladeshDhaka (AFP) Dec 11, 2010 Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. But in just six years, Talukder has built an international herbal tea empire in Bangladesh that employs 1,500 female farmers, wins orders from major Western health food chains, and has a turnover of 44 million taka (625,000 dollars). She was among the first people to sign up for a mobile phone when they arri ... read more |
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