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-- 2018-03-22 17:44:21
China has raised its short-term market interest rates by 5 basis points (bps) following the US Federal Reserve Bank’s move overnight. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) hiked the interest...
FE Online Report 2018-03-22 17:36:35
The government launched 'Export Diversification and Competitiveness Development Project (Tier-2)' at a programme at CIRDAP auditorium in the capital on Thursday. Organised by the Ministry of Commerce...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-22 11:53:22
India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. The accoun...
FE Report 2018-03-22 10:03:48
The central bank has relaxed foreign exchange regulations allowing the shipping lines to issue bills of lading to the name of importers after receiving advance payment instead the name of banks earlie...
Siddique Islam 2018-03-22 09:29:29
The overall excess liquidity with the country's banks shrank by nearly 18 per cent or Tk 154.61 billion by January, mainly for a lending binge against a deposit dearth. Selling the US dollar by the c...
BBC 2018-03-22 00:00:00
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network "made mistakes" that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy. Cambridge Analytic...
-- 2018-03-21 19:57:44
Big technology firms will have to pay more tax under plans announced by the European Commission. It said companies with significant online revenues should pay a 3.0 per cent tax on turnover for vario...
-- 2018-03-21 19:45:43
China’s biggest smartphone makers are collaborating to promote download-free “fast apps”, in a move backed by the government and likely to threaten Tencent Holdings’ grip on mo...
-- 2018-03-21 19:16:28
The panel of economic advisers to the German government on Wednesday raised its growth forecast for the country to 2.3 per cent this year. They raised the growth forecast despite giving a stark war...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-21 11:42:49
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday said the world is now passing an opportune moment to implement reforms to make growth more solid, sustainable, bal...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-21 11:24:47
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) March 21—While the improving global economy will help banks in the BRICS countries, S&P Global Ratings addresses the main risks confronting the lenders in...
Munima Sultana 2018-03-21 11:04:03
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is in difficulty to implement its next four-lane highway project than other such projects due to requirement of acquiring a greater extent of land to widen only 190...
-- 2018-03-21 09:57:06
The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a decisive role in US...
FE Report 2018-03-21 09:48:06
An official ratings agency says the Bangladesh economy can boast of fostering a 'job-rich growth', with the jobless rate remaining static at only 4.2 per cent last fiscal. Bangladesh Bureau of Statis...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-03-21 09:26:22
Smelling large information gap in the data about registered foreign workers in Bangladesh, the tax authority now takes a wider survey on 40 companies to detect undocumented ones. As per the data comp...
-- 2018-03-20 14:57:22
The headline consumer inflation of South Africa slowed to 4.0 per cent year-on-year in February from 4.4 per cent in January, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Tuesday. On a month-on-mont...
-- 2018-03-20 14:47:33
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday sought technical support from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to accelerate the country's industrialisation. "Under the prudent poli...
-- 2018-03-20 14:32:06
Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and othe...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-20 13:59:09
SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) March 20--Trade risks could cast a shadow on strong economic activity in Asia-Pacific in the first quarter of 2018, said S&P Global Ratings in a report publish...
-- 2018-03-20 11:05:51
Uber said it is suspending self-driving car tests in all North American cities after a fatal accident. A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed as she was crossing the street in Tempe, Arizo...
Our Correspondent 2018-03-20 10:55:43
With support of all directors and members, Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has decided to build a special economic zone (SEZ) here with its own fund. The decision was taken at an e...
FE Report 2018-03-20 09:19:35
The garment sector wage board asked the representatives of owners and workers to submit proposals for the minimum monthly pay for the entry-level workers. The board asked the parties to submit the pr...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-03-20 00:25:38
The digitisation process of the value-added tax (VAT) system under the VAT online project (VOP) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is in limbo due to the revenue board's foot-dragging in amending...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-19 13:32:08
A seminar highlighting transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using the retrospective job history of 2,000 workers in two metropolitan areas of Bangladesh will be held i...
-- 2018-03-19 11:27:32
China elevated a key confidante of President Xi Jinping to one of the top positions in government on Monday as Beijing cracks down on riskier financing and a debt to reduce systemic risks to the wor...
FE Report 2018-03-19 10:46:32
The growth of microcredit in developing countries like Bangladesh has been showing a slower pace in recent times as many borrowers find it difficult to expand their business due to the existing repaym...
Siddique Islam 2018-03-19 09:22:11
Some banks are failing to keep requisite provisions against both classified and unclassified loans as the volumes of such problem credits kept ballooning, sources said. The findings came as the ove...
-- 2018-03-18 18:38:56
Anybody who has paid tax, irrespective of the amount, will get tax card as an incentive to pay tax properly in the furutre. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said it on Sunday while speaking at a pre-budg...
-- 2018-03-18 12:37:15
Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker best known for passing on information that led to the arrest of Chelsea Manning, has died aged 37. In online messaging conversations, Manning confided in him, describin...
Syful Islam 2018-03-18 10:57:44
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sought clearance from the government to invest US$120 million under a private initiative in Bangladesh's power sector that struggles to serve an insatiable demand....
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