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Bangladesh Can Win from Reforms, Private Investment in Ports

DHAKA, April 30, (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh and its South Asian neighbors can make their container ports more efficient by boosting private sector participation, improving governance and encouraging competition in order to grab a bigger share of international trade and create more jobs, says a new World Bank report. While noting that Bangladesh and South Asia […]

ASEAN business leader questions Trump’s goal to bring back jobs to America

MANILA, April 27 (Xinhua) — A business advisor to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has doubted the ambition of U.S. President Donald Trump to boost the U.S. manufacturing, saying on Thursday that Trump was trying to bring back jobs at the expense of consumers’ benefits. Joey Concepcion, chairman of ASEAN Business Advisory Council, made the remarks […]

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 […]