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-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00
Oxfam Bangladesh and SME Corporation Ltd (BSCL) agreed to promote rural based micro and small dairy enterprises for the benefit of marginalised rural people through using sustainable green energy. &nb...
-- 2018-01-04 10:42:21
Revenue earnings have increased at an average rate of 14.28 per cent over the last five years that has ultimately boosted the government's capacity to finance priority projects with own funds. Reven...
FE Report 2018-01-04 10:31:05
The government has issued counter-guarantees worth US$ 200 million against ITFC loans to finance fuel oil import, officials said. The Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide state-owned...
Jasim Uddin Haroom 2018-01-04 09:26:55
Dazzled by the advent of cryptocurrency, a digital asset designed as a medium of exchange in transactions on virtual money market, Bangladesh's central bank began to devise ways of dealing with it. P...
-- 2018-01-04 09:20:07
The country’s foreign exchange reserves rose to USD 33.23 billion at the end of December – marking $630 million rise compared to that of November. Bangladesh Bank said the reserve stood n...
-- 2018-01-04 04:26:52
China will keep its target for economic growth at “around 6.5 percent” in 2018, unchanged from last year, policy sources told Reuters. The second largest economic country of the world see...
Reuters 2018-01-03 12:25:53
Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors, without a license and c...
FE Report 2018-01-03 12:00:00
The government now intends to build a bigger-sized LNG import terminal having the capacity of 7.5 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) instead of 5.5 Mtpa to meet the demand for natural gas in future. Stat...
Reuters 2018-01-03 12:00:00
Beijing is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development park in the city’s west, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as China pushes ahead to f...
-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00
The number of jobless people in Germany fell by 183,000 in December compared with a year earlier and the country finished the year with a record 44.3 million people in work. The unemployment rate rem...
Siddique Islam 2018-01-03 10:57:30
Commercial banks are expected to get a latest directive for implementing the asset-liability management (ALM) guidelines strictly to duck possible liquidity pressure in an emerging lopsided-market sce...
-- 2018-01-03 02:13:18
US home prices are projected to increase 4.2 per cent on a year-on-year basis from November 2017 to November 2018, according to a new report released Tuesday. Home prices in the United States are up...
-- 2018-01-02 12:53:05
US government body Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) and NASA have teamed up to build robotic technology that can refuel and repair friendly satellites. “Service stations in orb...
FE Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will import around 330,000 tonnes of refined petroleum products, especially diesel and jet fuel, this month under both term and open bidding system...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
Living expenditure increased by 8.44 per cent and price of commodity and services jumped by 7.17 per cent in 2017, the Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh (CAB) latest study revealed. In 2016,...
-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00
Asian manufacturing sectors ended a strong 2017 on a mixed note, with activity at multi-year highs in Taiwan and India and surprisingly picking up in China. “Robust external demand and accommo...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 12:00:00
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 16 development projects at a combine cost of Tk 52.21 billion. The approved 16 project include new naval base establishme...
FE Report 2018-01-02 11:39:21
The inward remittance flow remained pegged into a negative territory despite a significant rise in overseas jobs of Bangladeshi nationals by official count in the just-concluded year. The remittance...
-- 2018-01-02 07:55:50
Narayanganj District Jail recently launched Bangladesh’s first integrated Ready Made Garment (RMG) factory to be completely run by inmates. The facility, comprising 53 machines, will allo...
FE Online Report 2018-01-02 07:20:01
The point-to-point inflation rate in December dropped to 5.83 per cent – thereby recording a slight decrease over November, according to the latest official data. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-02 06:27:57
Indian state-owned oil company has chalked out plan to supply liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the northeastern states through Bangladesh. Sources concerned said the move will drastically cut the ref...
-- 2018-01-02 05:00:47
Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is keen on boosting trade with Bangladesh to achieve the common aspirations of the two friendly countries. BCCI Chairman Khalid Abdulrahman Al-Moayyed...
-- 2018-01-02 02:57:07
Singapore’s economic growth slowed in the Fourth Quarter (Q4) as factories lost steam, but a services sector recovery has bolstered expectations. The economy expanded 3.1 per cent in the Q4 fro...
-- 2018-01-02 02:23:49
The manufacturing activity of India expanded at the fastest pace in five years in December, a private sector survey showed on Tuesday. Tuesday’s data showed that Indian business continues to re...
Reuters 2018-01-01 12:51:32
China will maintain prudent monetary policy and reasonable loan growth in 2018, central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan said in comments published on Sunday. In a new year’s message, Governor Zhou sa...
BBC 2018-01-01 12:00:00
Value Added Tax (VAT) has been introduced in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the first time. The 5.0 per cent levy is being applied to the majority of goods and services. Gulf states h...
-- 2018-01-01 12:00:00
Bangladesh sent a record over1.0 million workers abroad with jobs in 2017, highest in the history of overseas employment sector. Earlier the highest number was 875,055 in 2008. The country started s...
-- 2018-01-01 11:16:20
WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. “WhatsApp users around the world experienced a br...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-01 10:56:23
TECNO Mobile is set to launch a new series of cellular phones for Bangladeshi consumers very soon. The new smarphones will have special features such as infinity display and low light selfie camera,...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-01-01 10:41:35
People in Bangladesh hope the year 2018 appears today (Monday) as the bellwether of changes for the better despite risks ahead and uncertainties, especially in the banking sector, in the background....
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