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-- 2019-12-26 14:09:54
The growing cooperation between China and the United States will benefit not only the two countries but the rest of the world, said a leading think tank based in San Francisco. In a report released t...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-26 10:30:55
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to help Bangladesh ease transborder and regional trade through facilitating infrastructural development and regulatory reforms, officials have said. Under...
Xinhua 2019-12-25 17:49:55
Chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices, according to a study published in this week's Proceedings of the National Ac...
Reuters 2019-12-25 15:09:09
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (local time) he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have a signing ceremony to sign the first phase of the US-China trade deal agreed to this month. &ldquo...
FE Online Desk 2019-12-25 13:53:39
The 32nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bangladesh Insurance Association was held at Dhaka Club on Tuesday. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Sheikh Kabir Hossain, president, BIA. The...
-- 2019-12-25 13:02:17
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Bangladesh increased 5.36 per cent year-on-year during July-October period of 2019-20 fiscal year (July 2019-June 2020), the central bank data has showed. The Bangl...
-- 2019-12-25 12:56:32
The US economy, supported by robust consumer spending and a strong job market, has maintained a moderate pace of growth as 2019 draws to a close. While worries about an immediate recession have abat...
FE REPORT 2019-12-25 10:46:03
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said the government will continue to support the growth of private sector so they can employ more people. He said, "Businesses should set a target to reg...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-12-25 09:43:39
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) board of directors has approved a proposal on a single-digit lending rate for industrial manufacturers to add an impetus to the country's economic growth. The approval came a...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-12-24 21:15:46
The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) expressed concerns about uncertainty of climate financing in UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid of Spain. There was no certain development...
-- 2019-12-24 18:05:17
Scientists in Australia and the United States have developed a membrane, inspired by bone and cartilage, that can produce electricity from saltwater. The study published this week in the journal Joul...
FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-24 14:50:16
The country witnessed its active internet users drop by half a million in November, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said in a report on Tuesday. There were 99.569 million ac...
-- 2019-12-24 13:54:19
China’s central bank will conduct a bill swap operation to support the issuance and liquidity of perpetual bonds issued by banks to replenish capital, it said on Tuesday. The bill swaps, with a...
-- 2019-12-24 12:49:03
The number of tourists to the occupied Palestinian territories increased by 15 per cent in 2019, Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Rula Maayah has said. "The number of tourists who have...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-12-24 10:18:57
The central bank is set to issue a circular on single-digit interest rate on industrial loans after getting approval from its board of directors, officials said. A draft of the circular is expected t...
Global Times 2019-12-23 18:20:30
China's cross-border capital flight pressure has been much alleviated this year, with the country expected to continue liberalising its capital account while cracking down on illegal trading activitie...
-- 2019-12-23 15:19:38
Singapore's Consumer Price Index for all items (CPI-All Items) grew 0.6 per cent year-on-year in November, compared to a 0.4-per cent growth in October, according to a statement. The Ministry of Trad...
Mohammad Mufazzal 2019-12-23 10:30:08
The government has reduced the rate of advance income tax (AIT) on import of cement raw materials to 3.0 per cent from 5.0 per cent. National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a SRO (statutory regulatory...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2019-12-23 09:34:29
French firm Technip, which is keen to clinch the contract for building the country's second crude oil refinery, has revised down the estimated cost of its construction to US$ 2.23 billion. The oil re...
-- 2019-12-22 19:28:05
The tourism industry in India's northeastern state Assam is taking a hit right now as violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests by various oraganisations against the controversial act cont...
-- 2019-12-22 18:26:07
World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) organised 23rd International Conference for SMEs (ICSME) on “Achieving inclusive and sustainable goal through SME 4.0 by promoting SMEs...
Xinhua 2019-12-22 18:14:27
The China-US phase-one economic and trade deal is a concrete step toward de-escalating bilateral tensions, experts have said. "We see the phase-one agreement as modest, but for now, it ends the escal...
-- 2019-12-21 11:11:14
Weeks after US authorities brought a spying case against three Saudi nationals for digging up dissidents’ personal data at Twitter, the company suspended tens of thousands of accounts that appea...
Saif Uddin 2019-12-21 11:05:11
The rate of online sales through different e-commerce platforms accounts for a very limited portion of the total retail sales in Bangladesh, according to a World Bank (WB) study. "Global online purch...
Siddique Islam 2019-12-21 10:51:39
Farm credit disbursement grew by more than 11 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, as demand for such loan has been picked up due to seasonal effects. Disburs...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-21 09:39:04
Irregularities and problems of various nature in the country's banking and financial sector have hit its growth, as the sector's expansion rate has fallen in the last fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, for th...
Reuters 2019-12-20 17:40:29
France’s competition authority fined Google $167 million for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. The fine comes as France and other European co...
-- 2019-12-20 14:59:24
The Latin American economy will accelerate slowly in 2020 due to decreased concerns over global political and commercial risks, according to experts. After showing almost zero growth in 2019, the reg...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-12-20 10:11:10
Scope abounds for a whacking $10-billion investment in nine projects under public-private partnership (PPP) with the government-to-government (G2G) arrangement. The PPP Authority (PPPA) has so far si...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-12-19 10:52:23
The local currency appreciated by two paisa against US dollar on Wednesday after nearly three years in the inter-bank foreign exchange (forex) market. Dollar was quoted at Tk 84.88 per unit on the...
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