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-- 2020-12-24 18:50:13
Bangladesh had shown interest in joining the New Development Bank, BRICS Bank, when it was coming into being in 2014 only for it to lean towards the China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Ban...
FE Online Report 2020-12-24 18:16:15
The power sector of Bangladesh is increasingly facing challenges with regard to inefficiency, cost escalation, lack of cleaner energy-mix, poor quality of transmission and distribution and rising fina...
-- 2020-12-24 15:49:59
Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) on Thursday announced that the country's manufacturing output increased 17.9 per cent year on year in November, compared to a revised 0.8 per cent decline in...
Reuters 2020-12-24 12:37:37
Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors ref...
FE REPORT 2020-12-24 09:06:10
The central bank on Tuesday issued a draft policy seeking opinions from the stakeholders concerned to set up alternative reference rate after phasing out of the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR...
-- 2020-12-23 22:15:48
The euro rose to $1.22 and the dollar fell on Wednesday as foreign exchange traders looked beyond US President Donald Trump’s threat to block a $892 billion COVID-19 aid package, reports Reuters...
-- 2020-12-23 22:07:16
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the finance ministry and other related ministries and divisions to formulate another financial stimulus package plan keeping the second wave of COVID-19...
-- 2020-12-23 15:39:06
India has assured Bangladesh of cooperation in ensuring barrier-free trade. Accordingly, the assurance was conveyed by Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & P...
-- 2020-12-23 12:23:41
Malaysia on Wednesday launched a 10-year plan to restart its battered tourism sector, which is estimated to have lost more than 100 billion ringgit ($24.61 billion) this year due to the coronavirus pa...
-- 2020-12-23 11:44:30
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at lawmakers over the newly approved 900-billion-US-dollar Covid-19 relief package, threatening not to sign the bill if changes are not made to increase the am...
REUTERS 2020-12-23 10:39:45
Apple is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matte...
SAIF UDDIN, BACK FROM RAJSHAHI 2020-12-23 10:20:52
The construction of key facilities at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-Tech Park in the northern education city of Rajshahi is set to finish by next year. The Tk 2.88-billion hi-tech park (HTP) will creat...
-- 2020-12-23 09:12:47
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would start allowing users to set up physical security keys as a way to verify their identity before logging into the social network’s mobile app, beginning next...
Siddique Islam 2020-12-23 08:50:53
The slower global economic recovery amid the second wave of Covid-19 may hinder Bangladesh's effort to overcome the fallouts from the pandemic's first hit, according to a latest Bangladesh Bank (BB)...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 15:00:05
Larger-than-expected money transfers from migrants overseas have provided a tonic for several sickly economies during the coronavirus crisis, but the outlook for such flows remains fraught with uncert...
-- 2020-12-22 12:29:51
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banne...
FE Report 2020-12-22 10:19:34
The Planning Commission and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority will conduct a piloting of business continuity plan (BCP) among the industries located in two economic zones aiming to strengthen resi...
FE REPORT 2020-12-22 09:57:11
The government will review the progress in implementation of the existing export policy 2018-21 aiming to help boost export, officials said. To this effect, the monitoring committee on the existing e...
-- 2020-12-21 20:32:46
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh on Monday signed agreements for $50 million in additional loans for the resumption of the economic activities of microenterprises seve...
-- 2020-12-21 12:08:47
The US Congress has passed another stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and provide lawmakers more time to vote on the Covid-19 relief deal and long-term government funding. The House...
FE Report 2020-12-21 10:24:34
The central bank has slashed significantly the interest rate on loans under the foreign direct investment promotion project (FDIPP) to facilitate Japanese investment in Bangladesh. The interest rate...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-12-21 10:13:59
The country's spending on imports increased slightly in November, lifted by an uptrend in petroleum prices in the international market. The coronavirus vaccines rollout in the United States and the U...
FE REPORT 2020-12-20 11:34:54
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is exploring possibilities to make online tax return submission mandatory for salaried taxpayers from next year, said a senior tax official on Saturday. It is also...
REUTERS 2020-12-19 10:59:45
Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona as part of a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign disclosed this week, according to an analysi...
-- 2020-12-19 09:37:48
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp will introduce voice and video calling feature to the messaging app’s desktop version next year, a company spokesperson told Reuters news agency. The move to facil...
-- 2020-12-19 09:16:20
Friends and families kept apart by Covid this Christmas and New Year will not find their virtual gatherings over Zoom cut short by the usual 40-minute limit for free subscribers. Zoom Video Communica...
FE OUTREACH TEAM 2020-12-18 21:36:15
Bangladesh will soon need to go for innovative financing for its development projects apart from utilising existing financial resources earmarked for attaining globally aligned development goals. The...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-18 19:50:19
Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad has said a total of 3,26,758 migrant workers returned home after losing their jobs from April 1 to November 30 this year. The m...
-- 2020-12-18 17:26:19
Economies of Asia and the Pacific must put water security at the top of their agenda to recover from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and adapt to climate change, according to a new flagship re...
-- 2020-12-18 16:44:35
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list o...
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