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Energy disruption hits Bangladesh and Pakistan as Gulf crisis worsens
Bangladesh faces widespread blackouts and factory slowdowns as gas shortages force reliance on costly spot LNG, with 55% of knitwear factories reporting canceled orders.
Summary by Reuters
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Parvin Akter times her cooking to the neighborhood's availability of piped gas. With gas in intermittent supply as a result of a global energy crunch, she now sometimes has to wait until midnight to cook her dinner.