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-- 2020-11-14 16:09:39
Thailand is expected to produce some 4.9 million tonnes of natural rubber throughout this year, said Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT) Governor Nakorn Tangavirapat on Saturday. Of the total natural...
FE REPORT 2020-11-14 09:53:59
Bangladesh is among top five economies recovering faster as a result of Chinese growth, according to an international publication. The five economies that are dodging bullets of COVID-19 are: China,...
-- 2020-11-13 15:06:28
Malaysia's economy decreased at a slower pace of 2.7 per cent in the third quarter from the double-digit decline of 17.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, said its central bank on Friday. Bank...
Reuters 2020-11-13 12:26:36
The Trump administration on Thursday (US standard time) unveiled an executive order prohibiting US investments in Chinese firms that Washington says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, ra...
FE REPORT 2020-11-13 10:20:32
Tax revenue collection registered only 1.14 per cent growth in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-21, with Tk 204.45 billion shortfall against the target. The National Board...
FE REPORT 2020-11-13 10:14:37
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday called upon the accountants to maintain transparency and accountability in discharging their professional responsibilities. He said accountants are the...
FE Report 2020-11-13 10:05:11
The central bank has asked all the scheduled banks to prohibit non-members from attending meetings of their board and board committees whatever the circumstance is, officials said. "We've issued the...
-- 2020-11-12 21:06:26
The Bangladesh government has adopted an inflation target of 5.2 per cent for the 2022-23 fiscal (FY22-23), a move which seems to be in line with its focus on boosting growth while keeping prices in c...
-- 2020-11-12 13:17:10
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has opened its 37th summit under the chairmanship of Vietnam via video conference, with focus on recovery from coronavirus (COVID-19) and the role of...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-11-12 10:15:26
The Covid-19 pandemic seriously affected the development project execution by the relevant government agencies during July-October period of the fiscal year (FY) 2020-21, officials said on Wednesday....
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-11-12 09:51:27
The government may extend the much-talked-about VAT Online Project (VOP) by another six months to June 30, 2021, as some of its key components are unlikely to be implemented with the December 31 deadl...
SYFUL ISLAM 2020-11-12 09:44:10
Amid slow disbursement of Covid-19 stimulus packages, the government has decided to hold dialogues with trade groups, banks, and the ministries concerned to find a way forward, officials said. The fi...
-- 2020-11-11 16:25:00
Bangladesh's forex-fetching readymade garment industry had begun to show signs of revival with expectations of a surge in foreign orders before the Christmas after a huge slump in export. But it is no...
FE REPORT 2020-11-11 10:20:42
Manufacturing industries will have to pay VAT for transferring raw materials from one factory to another, according to a clarification of the revenue board. However, the manufacturing units will get...
-- 2020-11-10 15:19:45
The US Federal Reserve has warned of a potential decline in asset prices and other financial risks as the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and recession persists. "Given the high level of uncertainty...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-11-10 14:51:01
PRAN-RFL Group’s Barind (Varendra) Industrial Park in Rajshahi will create four to five thousand jobs, of which 95 per cent job holder will be local, says a media release. It has plan to produc...
-- 2020-11-09 14:48:48
Vietnam reaped over 2.6 billion US dollars from exporting nearly 5.3 million tons of rice in the first 10 months of this year, up 8.2 per cent in value and down 4.0 per cent in volume year on year, ac...
-- 2020-11-07 20:07:13
Around 72 per cent of the firms surveyed are yet to receive any stimulus package, according to a survey of South Asian Network of Economic Modeling (SANEM). The major challenges include lack of packa...
-- 2020-11-07 16:30:21
The deadly Nipah virus kills nearly 75 per cent of the people it infects, but the circumstances under which the bat species, known as the Indian flying fox, transmits the virus to humans has remained...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-11-07 09:52:32
The World Bank (WB) has agreed to finance the country's western economic corroder with a view to facilitating a smart connectivity there, an official said on Friday. The Washington-based lender wou...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-11-07 09:44:21
Bangladesh has been ranked the third worst-performing country in the world in terms of attracting green-field foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a global ranking. "Greenfield" investment...
-- 2020-11-06 17:31:16
The US Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record-low level of near zero amid uncertainty about the final result of the presidential election. "Economic activity and...
-- 2020-11-06 17:18:41
China successfully sent 13 satellites into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province on Friday. The satellites, including 10 commercial remote sensing satellites...
Reuters 2020-11-06 12:09:18
Japan will open an English-speaking support office for foreign asset management firms seeking to do business in the country in January, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday, as it aims to boost th...
-- 2020-11-06 11:57:12
The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced that the planned annual meetings scheduled to take place in Morocco in October 2021 will be postponed by 12 months...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2020-11-06 09:40:09
Bangladesh is likely to lose US$7.0 billion worth of export earnings annually after graduation to a developing nation status in 2024, a government report estimates. The report said the country could...
FE Online Report 2020-11-05 18:28:42
Only 8.0 per cent of the country’s total employment has been covered by various stimulus packages worth Tk 1.13 trillion announced by the government to help offset the economic fallout from the...
-- 2020-11-05 17:38:53
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government has been working to build a vibrant blue economy by utilising marine resources for Bangladesh's economic prosperity. "We not only want to...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-05 16:06:05
The bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Pakistan reached US$543.90 million in the fiscal year 2019-20. Of the total trade, Bangladesh’s export to Pakistan stood at US$50.54 million while the...
Reuters 2020-11-05 15:00:46
An Indian government-backed COVID-19 vaccine could be launched as early as February - months earlier than expected - as last-stage trials begin this month and studies have so far shown it is safe and...
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