FE REPORT 2022-03-05 09:03:53
Bangladesh sent more than 20,000 female workers abroad in the first two months of the current calendar year, mostly to Saudi Arabia, shows an official account. Data released by the Bureau of Manpow...
YASIR WARDAD 2022-03-05 08:48:26
Yet again prices of edible oils rise to add to the hardship of the commoners already battered by general price rises on the volatile market, spot surveys show. Onions, rice, wheat flour and sugar als...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-03-05 08:43:42
Tourism in the Sundarbans would now be costlier than earlier as the government has doubled its levy after a decade. All the fees and non-tax revenue rates have been increased on an average for touris...
REZAUL KARIM 2022-03-05 08:41:03
Sudden market volatility with price spirals invites action as the government starts assessing the import, supply and stock positions of edible oils with refiners and traders, officials say. To this e...
MONIRA MUNNI 2022-03-05 08:33:32
The share of woven garments in Bangladesh's export earnings wanes mainly as lax backward-linkage industry fails to support the apparel subsector, insiders say. Backward-linkage industry is also "impo...
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Microsoft Corp said on Friday it was suspending new sales of its products and services in Russia, becoming the latest Western company to distance itself from Moscow after the Ukraine invasion. Russia...
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The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has alerted the commercial banks to risks of transactions with Russian lenders in the face of unprecedentedly massive Western sanctions targeting Russia’s economy in res...
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Companies and investors across the world faced Russian dilemmas on Friday as they weighed up an offer from Moscow to fast-track their exits from the country and allow them to hand over holdings to loc...
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Japan's Sony Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd said on Friday they would pair up to develop and sell battery-powered electric vehicles, as the electronics maker furthers its ambitions to become a key player...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-04 10:28:38
Shirin Runa and Delwar Hossain Jewel usually buy the school books and stationery for their two children at the start of the year. This year, they couldn’t. They have to wait another month before...
FE REPORT 2022-03-04 08:57:12
Crisis-ridden e-commerce platforms Boom Boom Shopping and Tholay.com on Thursday started refunding their customers from the money that got stuck with the SSL Payment gateway and Nagad. Initially, o...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2022-03-04 08:40:30
China moves for expediting the signing of a proposed free-trade agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh as the two countries enjoy growing economic cooperation, with the balance of trade heavily tilted toward...
FE REPORT 2022-03-04 08:37:50
The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) is planning to introduce business continuity plan (BCP) in the economic zones (EZs) to protect investment in the zones from disaster-related loss. The B...
FE REPORT 2022-03-04 08:33:23
Dhaka mulls over using alternative payment method in financial transactions with Moscow if international gateway SWIFT blocks Russian banks following sanctions over the Ukraine war. Finance Minister...
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Instability in the global market has led Bangladesh to increase the prices of liquefied petroleum gas for a second consecutive month, with the price of a litre rising by 12.13 per cent to Tk 116. Md...
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Swedish fashion group H&M is temporarily pausing all sales in Russia, it said on Wednesday, joining a growing list of companies shunning the country since it invaded Ukraine. The world's second-b...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-03 11:11:41
Oil prices sped higher on Thursday as the war in Ukraine drove a mad dash for resources in an ominous sign for global inflation, while Asian shares eked out gains after reassuring comments from the Fe...
FE REPORT 2022-03-03 10:58:20
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has launched its online-based membership management system to make registration procedures easy, faster and more convenient for f...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-03 10:47:16
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has emerged as a concern for the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh, said BGMEA. Russia, a potential and emerging market for Bangladesh RMG exports...
FE REPORT 2022-03-03 10:19:26
Domestic makers of essential building materials call for unburdening them of the overweight of multiple taxes to help them sustain the fallout of the pandemic. They say a spike in raw material prices...
FE REPORT 2022-03-03 10:09:23
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) on Wednesday recommended providing tax benefits, like the ones now being enjoyed by the RMG industry, to all the export-oriented industries...
FE REPORT 2022-03-03 10:02:06
A resilient rebound in apparel trade buoyed the country's merchandise shipments as Bangladesh recorded over 30-per cent annualized export growth in the current financial year's first eight months. Ex...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-03-03 08:42:07
Summit Group's FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) resumed re-gasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a major step to ease several month-long countrywide natural gas crisis. The F...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-03-03 08:40:18
Collection of tax revenue, largely import-stage revenue, grew by 15.75 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. Customs revenue grew by 22.45 per cent until January of fiscal ye...
FE REPORT 2022-03-03 08:33:47
Global commodity-price spirals amid unfolding geopolitical conflicts -- the Russia-Ukraine war at a peak -- may exert inflationary pressures on Bangladesh market. Such concern is aired in the Bangl...
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The government has decided to stop the sales of non-bottled soybean oil after May 31 and sales of non-bottled palm oil after December 31 this year with an aim to ensure sales of edible oil at a fixed...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-02 18:58:06
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) launched a digital membership management system. BGMEA President Faruque Hassan inaugurated the digital “BGMEA Membership...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-02 18:38:22
The country's merchandise export earnings maintained hefty growth during the first eight months of current fiscal year recording over 30 per cent rise this fiscal year following the good performance o...
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BRAC Bank’s Women Banking TARA has introduced a host of lucrative offers on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022. TARA credit card customers will enjoy 16% inter...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-02 14:50:40
United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCB) has launched the implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Technology of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). Managing...
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