DHAKA, Aug. 4 (NsNewsWire) — The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) is organising a dialogue on Minimum Wage and Livelihood Conditions of RMG Workers, which will be held on Sunday 5 August 2018 at 10.30 am at BRAC Centre Inn Auditorium. Mr Md Mojibul Haque Chunnu, MP, Hon’ble State Minister for Labour and Employment, has kindly consented […]

DHAKA, Aug. 2 (NsNewsWire)–  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today signed agreements for $500 million in loans to develop a state-of-the-art 800-megawatt (MW) power plant in Khulna, along with associated connections to natural gas and power transmission facilities. Muhammad Alkama Siddiqui, Additional Secretary (ADB Wing), Economic Relations Division (ERD), and […]

DHAKA, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — Introduction of ‘Agent Banking’ services at the digital center is an important initiative of the Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division to take financial services to the doorsteps of the marginalised people across the country. On Tuesday 31 July 2018, at the conference […]

DHAKA, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — The creation of green jobs and the promotion of social dialogue are amongst the priorities which the Government of Bangladesh, employers and workers organizations will work towards in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) until 2020. These areas have been included in a Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for […]

DHAKA, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is conducting a 3-day regional event in Dhaka to further enhance project design and implementationcapacity of ADB-funded projects’ executing and implementing agencies. State Minister for Finance and Planning Mr. M.A Mannan MP opened the event at Hotel Le Meridien in Dhaka this morning. Secretary for […]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved an assistance package totaling more than $357 million for a project to develop two power lines in support of Bangladesh’s national target of electricity for all by 2021. The investments comprise a $350 million ADB loan, a $7 million […]

COLOMBO, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — The Sri Lankan government on Monday issued certificates, approved by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), to over 750 tuk tuk drivers in the capital who have been trained as tour guides as well as drivers to local and foreign tourists, reports Xinhua. Tuk Tuk’s are a popular mode […]

DHAKA, July 30 (NsNewsWire) — The ADB Data Library is a platform that hosts publicly available data from the Asian Development Bank. Data is published according to open data standards (DCAT) which makes the datasets: Machine readable (e.g. by other data repositories, apps, visualization tools) Shareable Accessible through Application Program Interfaces (APIs)     The […]

JAKARTA, July 29 (NsNewsWire) — Shipment of Indonesia’s crude palm oil and its derivative products offshore drifted down in the first half of this year as demand dropped amid import tariffs, the industry association said here on Friday, reports Xinhua. Data from the country’s palm oil grower association showed that the cumulative exports of the […]