The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
Its fortunes, like those of most of North Carolina, centred on tobacco and textiles: in 1940 60% of the city's populace worked for one of the Hanes textile companies or for R.
Textile Minister Abdul Latif Siddique said the government had ordered 16 factories in Dhaka and two in the southeastern city of Chittagong to shut down while they undergo safety improvements.
Textile Minister Abdul Latif Siddique said the government had ordered 18 factories, 16 in Dhaka and two in the southeastern city of Chittagong, to shut down while they undergo safety improvements.