WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — The World Bank today approved $515 million for three projects in Bangladesh to improve coastal and marine fisheries, forest management, and rural roads. These financings will help rural people by reducing poverty and creating new livelihood opportunities, including for local communities in the Cox’s Bazar district hosting Rohingya people who fled violence […]

DHAKA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — A High Court division bench in Bangladesh Thursday asked the government to send immediately jailed ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to a public hospital in capital Dhaka for treatment. The High Court division bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order, also asking the relevant government authorities to form […]

DHAKA, Oct. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshis living and working abroad remitted home nearly 4 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the current 2018-2019 fiscal year, a central bank official said on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Quoting provisional data, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) official told Xinhua that the flow of inward remittances in the first […]

By He Weiwen Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/1 14:49:59 According to Kyodo News Agency, trade ministers of Japan, the US and the EU agreed on Tuesday to co-sponsor a proposal to reform the World Trade Organization (WTO) as part of an effort against Chinese industrial subsidies. WTO reform has attracted wide attention, especially since the US […]

DHAKA, Oct. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Driven by strong domestic demand, Bangladesh’s economy remains among the fastest growing economies in the developing world and it would grow at an even faster pace if it implemented economic reforms, says a new World Bank report launched today. The latest Bangladesh Development Update: Powering the Economy Efficiently, says that […]

MANILA, Oct. 1 (NsNewsWire) —  The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors today approved a new Access to Information Policy that aims to maintain ADB’s high standards of transparency. The policy, which will come into effect on 1 January 2019, will replace the current Public Communications Policy (PCP). The new policy retains the key information […]

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh has launched the much awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service in an apparent bid to put pressure on telecom companies to better serve customers. The facility paves the way for the country’s over 154 million mobile subscribers to switch operators without changing their phone numbers. Bangladesh Telecommunication […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/9/29 23:23:02 As the China-US trade war flares up, the island of Taiwan has decided to buy more soybeans from the US. It is reported that Taiwan will buy between 3.2-3.9 million tons of soybeans valued at up to $1.56 billion from Iowa and Minnesota in 2018 and 2019. The moves by […]

DHAKA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — Hundreds of local and foreign representatives have attended a reception in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Zuo, who hosted the reception, welcomed the guests including ministers, law makers, diplomats, senior politicians, journalists and […]