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DHAKA, Aug. 22 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 136 million at the end of June 2017 with addition of about 10 million new users in the first six months of this year, statistics of the country’s telecom regulator showed Monday, reports Xinhua. With nearly one million new addition […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Benchmark PR celebrates a Big win in newly launched PR category at Commward 2017 that took place on Saturday, 19 August 2017. The company strikes gold for the PR initiatives done at the launching Uber in Dhaka. The winning entry “Dhaka, Your Uber Has Arrived” has proved that the right […]
Read MoreVANCOUVER, Aug 17 (NsNewsWire) — The first round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks got off to a rocky start in Washington Wednesday with the U.S.’s chief negotiator calling for a full overhaul of the 23-year-old pact, instead of simple tweaks. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, trade experts cautioned that NAFTA talks could last many […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The Grameenphone Board has approved the appointment of Karl Erik Broten as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company, effective from September 1, 2017. He will be replacing Dilip Pal, who will be joining DTAC, Telenor’s operations in Thailand, as CFO. Karl Erik Broten has been serving as CFO of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s trade deficit ballooned in the last fiscal year 2016-17 concluded in June on the back of an increase in imports, said the central bank Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Trade deficit in the last fiscal year 2016-17 (July 2016-June 2017) surged 46 percent to 9.47 billion U.S. dollars compared to a […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — More than 253,000 new pilots will be needed in the next 20 years for the surging Asia-Pacific aviation market, Boeing China announced Monday. Boeing predicted that, from 2017 to 2036, the world’s commercial aviation industry will require about 637,000 new commercial airline pilots, according to its newly released 2017 Pilot […]
Read MoreRIYADH, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit halved in the first six months of this year, following sweeping spending cuts and a stabilisation in oil prices, the finance ministry said Sunday. The budget deficit dropped by 51 percent to 72 billion riyals (19.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2017, the […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Nsnewswire) — The luxury Trump International Hotel, blocks away from the White House, turned a 1.97-million-dollar profit in the first four months this year, according to newly released federal documents. The Trump Organization had earlier projected that it would lose 2.1 million U.S. dollars during this period when the new hotel opened […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Aug. 6 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh today signed an additional $47.50 million financing agreement with the World Bank to continue construction of new water infrastructure in Chittagong, and provide access to safe water to around 650,000 inhabitants in the city. The additional financing to the Chittagong Water Supply Improvement and Sanitation Project […]
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