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Giving fresh impetus to peninsula situation

Giving fresh impetus to peninsula situation

Complied by Han Xiaomeng, Li Lei, Zhao Dantong and BaiYuanqi 2018-04-01 21:42:07

In the spring season of rebirth and renewal, Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong-un, who recently paid his first foreign visit...

US swims against tide of trade globalisation

US swims against tide of trade globalisation

Zhong Sheng 2018-03-31 21:22:19

The US is flowing against the tide of globalisation by advocating protectionism to seek its own profits, and that will leave itself less room for development. Recently, the US government has been thr...

Industrialising Bangladesh: The pioneering role of A.K. Khan

Industrialising Bangladesh: The pioneering role of A.K. Khan

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2018-03-31 21:20:34

Abul Kasem Khan, popularly known as A.K. Khan (1907-1991) was a federal minister of the then Pakistan in charge of industries, works, power and irrigation from 1958-1963. He was a distinguished member...

Interest rates fluctuations and the stock market

Interest rates fluctuations and the stock market

Sk Shamim Iqbal 2018-03-31 21:14:56

When the Bangladesh Bank sets the target for the  funds rate at which banks borrow from and lend to each other, it has a ripple effect across the entire economy. It usually takes around 12 months...

A brief journey to Sri Lanka

A brief journey to Sri Lanka

Muhammad Mahmood 2018-03-31 20:55:33

After spending five days in Maldives in a remote island, I arrived in Colombo from Male and  straight headed for Kandy, the major city in the central highlands and famous for its tea plantations...

Attracting companies to go for IPO

Attracting companies to go for IPO

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2018-03-30 21:25:14

Recently both the bourses of the country experienced sharp declines in share prices, of course followed by an increase again. However, this situation led to a lot of brouhaha among the persons and age...

Linking cities' past with present: Case for Dhaka   

Linking cities' past with present: Case for Dhaka  

Shihab Sarkar     2018-03-29 22:24:06

The mindless destruction of heritage structures continues in Bangladesh. It has been occurring over the last few years. The country can now claim a place in an unusual architectural index. Its propone...

Yaba spoiling future of our young generation

Yaba spoiling future of our young generation

Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2018-03-28 22:17:25

Contraband yaba tablets are increasingly getting popular among young people nowadays in different parts of the world, including Bangladesh. This country is being used as a transit point for traffickin...

Adieu, Rahman Jahangir

Adieu, Rahman Jahangir

Wasi Ahmed 2018-03-27 22:04:08

Rahman Jahangir's death might have struck many in the journo community as something out of the blue. This could have been because they weren't aware of what he had been through for around past six mon...

Cricket goes haywire: Buck stops with BCB

Cricket goes haywire: Buck stops with BCB

M. Serajul Islam 2018-03-27 20:54:13

News about the Bangladesh cricket went viral on the social media recently when the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) gave a bonus of Tk 10 million (one crore) to the players. The big bon...

App-based ride-sharing policy: A critique

App-based ride-sharing policy: A critique

Nashir Uddin 2018-03-24 21:54:26

There is no doubt about the growing rate of people's interest in app-based transportation and ride-sharing services in a busy city life these days. The number of such transport service providers is al...

All policies are social policies

All policies are social policies

Abdul Bayes 2018-03-23 21:42:15

David Lewis is a Professor of Social Policy and Development, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics (LSE). He has devoted an important part of his life so far to doing research on Ban...

Giving Bangladesh rivers a new lease of life

Giving Bangladesh rivers a new lease of life

Shihab Sarkar 2018-03-22 21:27:06

Against the backdrop of the mindless killing of its rivers, the demonstrations in the country demanding their protection might seem mere ritualistic to many. The International Day of Action for Rivers...

Professionalisation of youth work

Professionalisation of youth work

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-03-22 21:24:11

Around the world youth work has now become a growth profession. It is rapidly evolving and changing, just like the young people. Young people have the endless potential which makes them the most impor...

ADR and the perception of lawyers      

ADR and the perception of lawyers    

Md Rizwanul Islam       2018-03-17 22:33:25

Most observers would possibly agree that despite various efforts by Parliament - as evident from laws providing for the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) -- the rate of the use of ADR in Ban...

Business tomorrow: Another day with a difference

Business tomorrow: Another day with a difference

B K Mukhopadhyay 2018-03-16 21:34:47

At least it is heartening to note that India is aiming to be among the top 30 countries in the world in terms of ease of doing business. India - presently a $2 trillion economy has been hoping to turn...

Ending violence against children in schools

Ending violence against children in schools

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-03-15 22:06:24

Schools are the places where children gain knowledge and skills as well as learn attitudes and behaviour that can shape their relationship with the community. Children's experiences in educational set...

Loss of childhood innocence - social perspective

Loss of childhood innocence - social perspective

Shihab Sarkar 2018-03-15 22:01:58

No children in today's world are happy in the true sense. They do not realise this. Nor do the adults. But their parents, teachers and the elders want them to grow like they have dreamed. Children are...

Making Open Account transaction secure

Making Open Account transaction secure

M S Siddiqui   2018-03-12 22:10:37

There are four methods in international trade payment against export. Those are: Cash in Advance or prepayment; Open Account; Documentary Collection; and Documentary Letter of Credit (LC). The foreig...

China's technology-propelled 'toilet revolution' moves ahead, steadily   

China's technology-propelled 'toilet revolution' moves ahead, steadily  

Wang Hailin and Zhao Shan     2018-03-10 22:28:56

Nationwide innovations in toilet technologies are offering strong support to China's "toilet revolution" campaign. Toilet civilization has gradually formed across the country, and the citizens and tou...

Economic scenario under scrutiny

Economic scenario under scrutiny

Asjadul Kibria 2018-03-08 22:43:16

It is indisputable that Bangladesh economy is moving ahead. Different indicators reflect the trend. Nevertheless, there are many inside stories of ups and downs.  Some analysts and writers are al...

Of social media and youth radicalisation

Of social media and youth radicalisation

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-03-08 22:41:00

The phenomenon of 'violent extremism' is growing day by day around the world. Side by side, there has been a plethora of research on youth radicalisation in the recent years. However, as most of the r...

Revisit to history riding the ruins of past

Revisit to history riding the ruins of past

Shihab Sarkar 2018-03-08 22:32:05

The long-believed geophysical composition of the country is set to undergo a redefining. The spotting of over a dozen archaeological sites in the last one and half decades evidently presents a fresh v...

Everyone stands to gain when more women take top positions in businesses

Everyone stands to gain when more women take top positions in businesses

Richard Barathe 2018-03-07 22:28:37

Women's role in the workplace is at the heart the International Women's Day commemoration. Even though it first celebrated a demonstration by women workers in New York in 1857, it was the killing of n...

Woes of the banking sector - from excess liquidity to liquidity crisis

Woes of the banking sector - from excess liquidity to liquidity crisis

Sk. Shamim Iqbal 2018-03-06 20:55:03

About a year ago, the banking sector was afloat with excess liquidity of around Tk 1,270 billion. The banks could not find client(s) to disburse those funds. One year on, the scenario has got totally...

Linking education and  training to job market

Linking education and training to job market

Md. Serajul Islam and Snehal V Soneji 2018-03-05 21:33:39

The Oxford dictionary defines the verb 'translate' as 'expressing the sense of words or text from one into another.' Translation is used to ensure that thoughts and ideas expressed in one language are...

Policy change needed for enforcing business contracts

Policy change needed for enforcing business contracts

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2018-03-03 21:59:19

Enforcing contract remains a key challenge in improving  business climate in Bangladesh. Data collected for 'Doing Business Report 2018' shows that contract enforcement takes 1442 days and costs...

US shifts toward protectionism: Sound fundamentals a myth

US shifts toward protectionism: Sound fundamentals a myth

Stephen S. Roach 2018-03-02 21:06:04

The spin is all too predictable. With the US stock market clawing its way back from the sharp correction of early February, the mindless mantra of the great bull market has returned. The recent correc...

Incidence of migration increases among the poor

Incidence of migration increases among the poor

Abdul Bayes 2018-03-02 20:30:34

The most recent data collected through a survey in 62 villages of the country show that one-third of rural households have at least one migrant member (20 per cent local and 20 per cent foreign). That...

Promoting faster growth and accelerated poverty reduction

Promoting faster growth and accelerated poverty reduction

Quazi Shahabuddin 2018-03-01 21:56:13

The book makes significant value addition to the growing body of literature on development economics. Its publication, as Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed himself, the author, himself says, has been motivated by...