FE Report 2019-08-08 10:04:28
The government approved the procurement of another vehicle-mounted data interceptor for the ministry of home affairs under the direct purchase method. The cabinet committee on economic affairs gave t...
Xinhua 2019-08-07 18:09:19
China's agriculture sector has seen rapid growth over the past 70 years, with grain output expanding 4.8 times, according to a report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). China's grain outpu...
FE Online Desk 2019-08-07 17:16:31
International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) said the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) has set the lower private sector credit growth target which will affect the industrial production and employm...
Xinhua 2019-08-07 15:41:55
Malaysia's central bank Bank Negara Malaysia has said that its international reserves stood at 103.9 billion US dollars as of July 31. The reserves were 0.6 per cent higher compared with $103.3 bil...
FE Report 2019-08-07 10:28:19
The Planning Commission (PC) is going to be tough on the public agencies which revise their development projects repeatedly. Planning Minister MA Mannan warned on Tuesday the public agencies which ar...
Global Times 2019-08-06 17:40:35
Washington's plans to contain China's economy would end in failure and the price to be paid by the US will far exceed its imagination as it provokes a massive trade war, Chinese experts warned on Tues...
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The US non-manufacturing sector in July expanded at the slowest pace in nearly three years, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has said. The non-manufacturing index (NMI), which gauges the per...
FE Online Desk 2019-08-06 14:06:15
Bangladeshi expatriates sent home 1.56 billion US dollars in July, the first month of the current 2019-20 fiscal year, a central bank official has said. This amount is up by 21.20 per cent from $1.32...
Doulot Akter Mala 2019-08-06 10:24:51
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to put forward a proposal to Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) for exclusion of essential consumer goods from its tax incentive package. The...
FE Report 2019-08-06 10:06:04
Authorities concerned met on Monday in the wake of an announcement in the budget to grant 2.0 per cent incentives for remitters as part of its efforts to encourage them to send money through the ban...
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The Bangladesh Bank has increased the borrowing limit from inter-bank call money market. Financial institutions can borrow maximum 40 per cent of their equity from September 1, 2019, according to a B...
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Taiwan’s exports likely rose 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, logging a second straight month of growth, according to the median forecast of 15 analysts polled by Reuters. The island&r...
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The Bangladesh Bank will issue a circular immediately asking the scheduled banks to ensure single-digit interest rates on both lending and deposit. Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal made the annou...
FE Report 2019-08-04 10:50:12
The country's apex chamber on Saturday said the central bank's lower private credit growth target would impact investment, especially in smaller firms. In its reaction to the latest Monetary Policy S...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-08-04 09:54:00
At least 10 projects have been suffering from the implementation delays as the World Bank's fund meant for Bangladesh has dried up, officials said. The officials said the Washington-based lender has...
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Indonesia’s economic growth likely to grow 5.0 per cent in the second-quarter (Q2) as soft commodity prices and weakening global trade continued to hurt exports, a Reuters poll showed on Friday....
Doulot Akter Mala 2019-08-02 10:27:15
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to resolve complexities regarding import of power sector equipment by preparing an integrated list of the products that are eligible for enjoying exempt...
FE Report 2019-08-02 10:04:56
Bangladesh loses at least 20 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) for poor regulations, a regulatory reform expert said on Thursday. "Bangladesh is suffering from low level of regulations a...
FE Report 2019-08-02 10:01:27
Finance minister AHM Kamal on Thursday lashed out at the officials of the BASIC Bank for their failure to improve the financial health of the troubled state lender. As the scandal-hit bank is struggl...
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Bangladesh is likely to be the second largest recipient of Japanese assistance after India in the current Japanese fiscal year which starts from April 01. In last Japanese fiscal, Bangladesh was the...
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US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is backfiring and impacting the US economy, according to his former chief economic adviser. The tariff battle has had a “dramatic impact&r...
FE Report 2019-08-01 12:43:27
The international affairs adviser to the prime minister, Dr Gowher Rizvi, said on Wednesday the country's achievement would be meaningless without inclusive growth. "Whatever we've achieved doesn't c...
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Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said more British companies should come up with more investment to Bangladesh and take advantage of its young and growing population. He said Bangladesh needs...
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Mexico’s Finance Ministry has lowered its growth forecast for 2019 to 1.1pc as evidence mounts that Latin America’s second-largest economy is falling short of the government’s expect...
FE Report 2019-08-01 10:58:33
Subsidy is required to successfully implement crop insurance system in the country, Dr Shameem Hassan Bhuiyan, a crop insurance expert, told a roundtable at a city hotel on Wednesday. "Crop insurance...
FE Report 2019-08-01 10:20:46
Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal said he will recover the entire volume of money, embezzled from banks by various conglomerates like Hallmark Group. "My standpoint is still the same. We will reco...
FE Report 2019-08-01 09:54:19
Tax revenue collection posted an aggregate shortfall of Tk 571 billion in the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 against its revised target, recording 10.7 per cent growth over the corresponding year. The grow...
Siddique Islam 2019-08-01 00:00:00
The central bank announced on Wednesday "cautiously accommodative" monetary policy statement (MPS) for the current fiscal year aiming to achieve higher growth while taming inflationary pressures. "Th...
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Bangladesh Bank does not maintain any data on remittance outflow although it has updated data on remittance inflow, said its officials. Bangladesh Bank government Fazle Kabir and other deputy governo...
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Around 4,000 people both male and female from Rajshahi district have got jobs in abroad including the Middle East countries last year. Earlier on, the people were given six-month training on general...
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