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-- 2020-07-08 16:23:21
Vietnam imported more than 3.1 million tons of plastic worth roughly 3.9 billion US dollars in the first six months of this year, posting a year-on-year rise of 5.3 per cent in volume and a decrease o...
-- 2020-07-08 13:59:02
The Bangladesh Bank (Amendment) Bill, 2020 has been placed in Parliament to extend the age limit of the governor of the central bank to 67 years. Planning Minister MA Mannan, in absence of Finance Mi...
FE Report 2020-07-08 10:16:42
Bangladesh Jute Association (BJA)has demanded reduction of source tax on their export earnings. It also sought facilities of stimulus package announced by the government for the businesses. To this...
FE REPORT 2020-07-08 09:56:21
Health ministry has sought an estimated Tk 5.0-billion emergency fund from the government with an eye to fighting Covid-19, officials said. To this effect, central medical stores depot (CMSD) has rec...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-07 19:13:49
The central bank of Bangladesh has relaxed regulations aiming to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) through providing three more facilities to foreign investors. Under the relaxations, foreign i...
-- 2020-07-07 18:54:31
The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more than 250 million people to the brink of starvation and dashed hopes of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, a UN expert said in a report published on Tuesd...
-- 2020-07-07 18:32:29
As global growth recovers in the coming quarters, Bangladesh stands to benefit from its strong economic fundamentals and will likely continue to deliver steady growth rates despite COVID-19 pandemic....
FE Online Desk 2020-07-07 17:54:01
As global growth recovers in the coming quarters, Bangladesh stands to benefit from its strong economic fundamentals and will likely continue to deliver steady growth rates. This is according to Frede...
FE Online Report 2020-07-07 16:17:45
Today (July 07, 2020) is the last day to send suggestions and opinions for the country’s monetary policy for the fiscal year (FY21). Bangladesh Bank has already started to work to formulate FY2...
-- 2020-07-07 14:59:12
Indonesia's central bank recorded foreign exchange (forex) reserves at 131.7 billion US dollars at the end of June, an increase compared to 130.5 billion dollars at the end of May. "The increase in f...
REUTERS 2020-07-07 14:01:09
Desperate to afford her daughter’s overseas university fees, 58-year-old retired Iranian teacher Maryam Hosseini withdrew all her savings from the bank to buy US dollars. It was not enough. Wit...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-07-07 09:43:59
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has implemented only 57.39 per cent of the Annual Development Programme (ADB) in the just concluded fiscal year (FY 2019-20). It could spend only Tk 58.82 billion till June th...
FE Report 2020-07-07 09:38:24
The new coronavirus pandemic in South Asia has severely affected livelihoods of over 1.7 billion people, according to the Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) 2020. It said the disruptions to supply chai...
REZAUL KARIM 2020-07-07 09:34:55
China has requested Bangladesh to take adequate safety measures for ensuring that the food items being exported from Bangladesh to China remains free from contamination of coronavirus, officials said....
Doulot Akter Mala 2020-07-07 09:23:11
Tax collection fell into negative territory in the just-concluded fiscal year due to, what officials described, economic disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Tax receipt by the National Board...
-- 2020-07-06 23:11:14
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to explore ways to channel funds from the country’s record-high foreign exchange reserves in the form of credit to finance the dev...
-- 2020-07-06 22:29:44
Farmers who cultivated Boro paddy this year reported a 40 per cent deficit on average between their actual and projected profit amid COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey. The Brac Institute of Go...
-- 2020-07-06 18:40:55
Three highways will be upgraded into four-lane ones in the current fiscal (FY21) aiming to improve the national transport system and infrastructures for better road communications across the country....
FE Online Report 2020-07-06 16:52:57
The point-to-point inflation rate in last month June increased by 0.67 percentage points to 6.02 per cent due to significant rise of the food inflation, official data showed. In May, the rate of infl...
-- 2020-07-06 16:14:57
Vietnam's total textile and garment export value in the first half of this year declined by 15.5 per cent year-on-year to nearly 12.8 billion US dollars, according to the country's General Statistic...
FE REPORT 2020-07-06 09:48:59
A new container line has started operating between Chattogram and Kolkata seaports in a significant move to boost Indo-Bangladesh trade. The vessel,Harmann Schepper, left the Ctgport on Thursday la...
-- 2020-07-05 16:26:56
The government's plans to revitalise the flagging jute sector through public-private partnerships have been met with scepticism from stakeholders in the industry. It came after the government announc...
-- 2020-07-05 16:18:43
Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada received on Saturday 899 foreign tourists aboard five flights coming from Switzerland, Belarus and Ukraine, the Red Sea governor told reporters at Hurghada airp...
Reuters 2020-07-05 14:17:19
Germany’s economy may recover from October onwards from the coronavirus pandemic, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “I am sure that the downturn of...
FE Report 2020-07-05 10:33:52
Bangladesh has requested Nepal to conclude discussion son signing of preferential trade agreement (PTA) in the shortest possible time, officials said. In this regard, the commerce secretary of Bang...
FE REPORT 2020-07-05 10:27:56
Speakers in a webinar on Saturday suggested the authorities concerned act fast to develop new skill sets among the workforce to tap potential investment in the post-COVID era. As countries like the U...
Monira Munni 2020-07-05 09:42:38
The country's apparel exports to the United States fell by 12.10 per cent during the first five months of the current calendar year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, exporters have said. Banglade...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2020-07-05 09:36:49
The coronavirus impact has failed to restrict public agencies from the race for including unapproved projects in the current development programme as nearly 1,450 have been added to tally. An FE anal...
-- 2020-07-04 20:15:11
A recent United Nations report on the private business sector shows that the majority of companies are not doing enough to help bring about the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals...
-- 2020-07-04 17:11:54
The demand for aid has dropped as the coronavirus-hit unemployment was curbed by the resumption of economic activities around the country. State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur...
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