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Telenor Group CEO Sigve Brekke visited Dhaka

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group CEO, Sigve Brekke, was in Dhaka on Monday August 8, 2016 on a short trip to Grameenphone. The Telenor Group CEO conducted several internal meetings at GPHouse, the Grameenphone headquarters, at Bashundhara. He visited the new innovation centre, set up at the GP corporate head office and held […]

Out-going Ambassador of Vietnam met the Foreign Minister

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Out-going Ambassador of Viet Nam Nguyen QuangThuc paid a farewell call on the Foreign Minister A. H Mahmood Ali MP, yesterday, 09 August 2016 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ambassador thanked the Foreign Minister for the support and cooperation extended to him during his tenure in Bangladesh. He […]

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscriber number falls to 131.376 mln

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A latest report of Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has reveals the country’s mobile phone subscriber numbers have fallen to 131.376 million in June, down some 3 million from December last year, reports Xinhua. Statistics of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed Tuesday that the number of subscribers of the six […]

City Bank-Robi offer Unlimited Data Roaming facilities with discounted annual fees on credit card

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — An agreement recently signed between City Bank and Robi Axiata Limited has paved the way for customers of both the companies to avail attractively packaged unlimited data roaming service along with credit card facility at a specially discounted annual fee. City Bank’s Managing Director & CEO, Sohail R. K. Hussain […]

Economic Watch: China’s economy stabilizes

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The Chinese economy is showing signs of stability but domestic demand remains fragile. China’s consumer price index (CPI) grew 1.8 percent year on year in July, virtually unchanged from 1.9 percent in June, while the producer price index (PPI), which measures costs of goods at the factory gate, dropped 1.7 […]

Grameenphone launches digital self-care channel MyGP

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone has launched their digital self-care channel MyGP, for customers to access all GP services, offers, bonus and rewards, on August 9 at the Westin Dhaka. MyGP App will be the single digital channel which lets customers interact with GP through its rich and personalized user experience. The app is […]

Bringing Skills Training Opportunities to Rural Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 9 (NsNewsWire) — In Bangladesh, often the rural people, especially young women do not have access to industry-based skills trainings as the industries are pre-dominantly mainly located in cities. To overcome the challenge, the Skills and Training Enhancement Project (STEP) in partnership with the Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) is […]

Roundup: Chinese engineering giant to design mega Padma bridge corridor linking Bangladesh with neighbors

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 8 (Xinhu) — The Bangladeshi government has relied on a Chinese engineering giant to carry out detailed engineering design for a four-lane expansion of a national highway which is assumed to be one of the major transport corridors linking capital Dhaka to its south and west as well as linking Bangladesh […]

China sends first span of Bangladesh’s largest Padma Bridge

DHAKA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — First Made in China span for Bangladesh’s largest Padma bridge has reached the project site. The 150-meter span weighing some 2900 tones was made of steel plate with 20-80mm thickness in a Chinese factory. Obaidul Quader, Bangladesh’s road transport and bridges minister, said all the 41 spans for the bridge […]