-- 2019-01-04 17:56:31
Bangladesh’s position in doing business ranking is likely to come down to below 100 from the existing 176 by 2021 as the government has taken various reform initiatives to improve the country&rs...
-- 2019-01-04 15:58:40
Malaysia's exports grew only 1.6 per cent year-on-year to 84.79 billion ringgit (about 20.78 billion US dollars) in November last year, as electrical and electronics (E&E) shipment experienced its...
-- 2019-01-04 14:51:32
Employees will not need a key to get into the office of the future when it opens in Berlin this year, featuring ample meeting space, plenty of copy machines always stocked with paper along with high-q...
-- 2019-01-04 11:33:20
US and China will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies and roiling global financi...
-- 2019-01-03 19:27:08
A Chinese probe has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, according to state media, in a groundbreaking mission in space exploration. The unmanned Chang'e 4 spacecraft successfully...
FE Online Report 2019-01-03 18:53:04
Export earnings from merchandise shipments during the first half of the current fiscal year (FY19) marked a 14.42 per cent rise than that of the corresponding period of the previous year. ...
-- 2019-01-03 15:38:55
Vietnam earned over 8.8 billion US dollars from exporting seafood in the previous year, mainly prawns and catfish, posting a year-on-year increase of 6.3 per cent, according to government data. The V...
-- 2019-01-03 13:58:39
Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, unveiling the very...
-- 2019-01-03 12:54:38
Qatar’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth accelerated to an annual 2.2 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2018 from a revised 1.7 per cent in the second quarter, a govt data showed. The Mi...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-03 09:46:23
Inward remittance jumped by nearly 15 per cent or around $2.0 billion in calendar year 2018 following the depreciating mode of taka against dollar, officials said. Remittance inflows rose to $15.53 b...
-- 2019-01-02 19:02:01
Female migrant workers, both the internationally and internally migrated ones, are playing a vital role in uplifting the country’s economy as they are earning foreign currency and sending remitt...
-- 2019-01-02 18:21:45
The general point to point inflation rate in December last further eased to 5.35 percentage point from the previous month due to the slight decrease in both food and non-food inflation. “The ge...
-- 2019-01-02 15:27:14
Indonesian annual inflation posted 3.13 per cent in December, accelerated at a slower pace in the last month of the previous year, within the target range of the central bank in November. The nationa...
Reuters 2019-01-02 14:27:16
Alphabet’s Google unit won approval from US regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as Project Soli. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on...
-- 2019-01-01 14:56:44
American scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. In the late 1960s, he ran the part of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) giv...
-- 2019-01-01 14:29:46
South Korea's trade value hit a new record high in 2018 as export topped 600 billion US dollars for the first time in the country's history, a government report showed Tuesday. Export, which accounts...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2019-01-01 10:51:33
Handling a chaotic and vulnerable banking sector along with a huge amount of bad loans is going to be the biggest challenge for the new government in this year (2019), the country's leading economists...
FE Report 2019-01-01 00:25:20
Textile and apparel industry leaders want to see in the New Year the continuation of the business- and investment-friendly climate and steps to address the challenges facing the sector. The challen...
-- 2018-12-31 13:53:38
South Korea’s central bank chief said in a New Year’s message on Monday that policy should remain accommodative next year as demand-side inflation pressures were expected to remain low. &...
-- 2018-12-31 12:34:51
Google is celebrating New Year's Eve with an animated playful doodle which shows two purple baby elephants wearing a yellow and a green party cap each. The baby elephant on the left is seen blowing...
-- 2018-12-31 12:08:01
An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington. The purchasing manage...
-- 2018-12-31 11:50:02
Malaysia's producer price index (PPI) for local production decreased 2.9 per cent year-on-year in November, according to the Malaysian Statistics Department. The official statistics said in a stateme...
FE Report 2018-12-31 11:49:42
Secondary trading of the government's fixed income securities declined drastically in the outgoing calendar year, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that the value of t...
FE Report 2018-12-31 11:24:04
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first ten months of the outgoing year, 2018, witnessed a moderate rise as was indicated initially. The full data of FDI is available for the first...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-31 09:43:25
A satellite in space, the launch of 4G service and the advent of local handset assembling are some of the highlights from 2018 for Bangladesh in telecoms, and information and communication technolog...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-30 13:13:34
The 9th ADBI-OECD-ILO roundtable on labour migration in Asia begins in Tokyo on January 24. ADBI has arranged the two-day event to foster regional cooperation towards innovative approaches fo...
-- 2018-12-30 13:03:53
A cyber attack caused major printing and delivery disruptions on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times and other major US newspapers, including ones owned by Tribune Publishing Co such as the Chicago Trib...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-12-30 08:13:49
The outgoing year saw Bangladesh's economy buckle under increasing pressure, with balance of payment deficit, banking crisis, and weak local currency exacting a toll on the macroeconomic health. The...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-12-29 21:00:00
Bangladesh started importing 'expensive' LNG (liquefied natural gas) in 2017 to meet the mounting domestic demand by expanding the country's energy sources.Currently, the state-run Petrobangla has bee...
-- 2018-12-29 20:07:12
Scientists have proposed a way to retrieve samples from Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which is believed to contain a liquid ocean underneath that could hold microbial life. Andrew Dombard, associate pr...
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