School teachers in Bangladesh have walked out of classes in a mass protest. Around 180,000 primary school teachers on Saturday walked out of their classes demanding better pay and other benefits, an organiser said.Abul Kalam Azad, a spokesman for the Bangladesh School Teachers' Association said the teachers' protests have been organised to press the government to fulfil its earlier promise to provide them with better benefits and working conditions before Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's five-year term expires in October.
