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Singapore’s manufacturing output up 10.2 pct in March year-on-year

SINGAPORE, April 26 (Xinhua) — Singapore’s manufacturing output increased 10.2 percent year-on-year in March, said the country’s Economic Development Board (EDB) on Wednesday. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 12.4 percent in March, said EDB in the press release. On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, manufacturing output increased 5.0 percent compared to the previous month. Excluding […]

Western Australia not willing to give up new gas reserve for eastern states

SYDNEY, April 26 (Xinhua) — Western Australias newly-appointed Premier Mark McGowan said on Wednesday that it is time to “play hardball” with the federal government and the eastern states over plans of a possible gas pipeline that would stretch across the nation. McGowan said his state deserves a bigger share of the nation’s goods and […]

Bangladesh judges gain better understanding International Labour Standards

DHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — A three-day training course on “International Labour Standards and Labour Legislation” was launched today in Dhaka to equip judges and judicial officers with better knowledge of international labour law. In all, 30 judges and judicial officials are attending the training programme organised by International Labour Organization (ILO) together with the […]

S.Korea’s exports volume hits record-high in March

SEOUL, April 25 (Xinhua) — South Korea‘s exports volume hit a record high, raising expectations that the country’s exports may get back on a full recovery track, central bank data showed Tuesday. The export volume index came in at 151.26 in March, up 4.9 percent from a year earlier, according to the Bank of Korea […]

More jobs created in China, jobless rate falls

BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) — China’s quarterly job report delivered a positive message Tuesday as 3.34 million new jobs were created in the first quarter and the unemployment rate fell to 3.97 percent. The number of new jobs was 160,000 higher than that in the same period last year, and the unemployment rate was down […]

GRAMEENPHONE’S WHITE-BOARD HOSTS FACEBOOK’S F8 MEETUP

DHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — White-Board, Grameenphone’s platform for digital innovators in association of Facebook Developer Circle Dhaka, hosted the F8 Meetup in Dhaka on April 19, 2017 at GPHouse. This event was held in relation with Facebook’s annual developer conference F8, which was held in San Jose, California, on April 18 and April 19. […]

Chevron Announces Planned Sale of Bangladesh Companies

SAN RAMON, April 24 (NsNewsWire) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chevron Global Ventures, Ltd., has entered into an agreement to sell the shares of its wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh to Himalaya Energy Co. Ltd. Chevron Bangladesh operates Block 12 (Bibiyana Field) and Blocks 13 and 14 (Jalalabad and […]

RANKSTEL hands over 40 mln taka as license fee to BTRC

DHAKA, April 23 (NsNewsWire) — RANKSTEL, a leading Bangladeshi telecom company, has recently paid 40 million taka license fee up to June 2017 to the country’s telecom regulator. A team of Rankstel officials led by its Chief Financial Officer Masudur Rahman handed over a cheque of 40 million taka to Ashish Kumar Kundu, Director Account […]

Bangladesh July-February imports reaches nearly 30 bln USD

DHAKA, April 21 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s imports surged about 11.13 percent to nearly 30 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of the current 2016-17 fiscal year ending in June, a central bank official said Thursday, reports Xinhua. An official from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) said the settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally […]