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ILO Global Business Forum Highlights the Importance of a Sustainability Vision for Bangladesh’s RMG Sector

Representatives from the world’s largest retails brands met with leading figures from the country’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector at the Annual Bangladesh Business Forum in Dhaka last Wednesday, 2 October 2019. Under the theme ‘Driving Sustainable Change’, the forum was organised by the Better Work Bangladesh (BWB) programme, a joint collaboration between the International Labour Organization […]

Bangladeshi elite force arrests casino boss

Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early on Sunday arrested Ismail Hossain Samrat, the alleged kingpins of casino business in the country, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi Home Minister Assaduzzaman Khan made the announcement saying Samrat was apprehended along with his associate Enamul Hoque Arman in Cumilla district, 96 km east of capital Dhaka, in […]

Special discount offer for Robi Dhonnobad customers from Grand Sultan

Robi high value customers can now enjoy 55% special discount from Grand Sultan Tea Resort & Golf. The unique offer comes as part of Robi’s Dhonnobad program. In this regard, Robi’s Executive Vice President, Customer Life Cycle Management & International Business, Barna Ahmad and Grand Sultan’s Head of Sales & Marketing Md. Sayedul Islam Bhuiyan […]

Pakistani PM speaks with Bangladeshi counterpart via phone

DHAKA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke with Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina Wednesday via telephone. “Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this afternoon and exchanged pleasantries,” the prime minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim was quoted as saying in a report of national news agency BSS. […]

Bangladesh’s Eastern Bank opens first office on Chinese mainland

Bangladesh’s Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) opened its first representative office on the Chinese mainland in Guangzhou on Sunday, reports Xinhua. Guangzhou is a city of great economic vitality and home to the China Import and Export Fair, said Ali Reza Iftekhar, EBL’s managing director. Bangladesh has seen frequent economic and trade exchanges with […]

edotco Bangladesh Contributes over BDT 14 Million to Workers’ Welfare Fund

edotco Bangladesh (“edotco BD”), an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company in Bangladesh, has made a contribution of over Fourteen Million in the workers’ welfare fund. High officials of edotco Bangladesh Management, Manzoorul Islam, Director Operations & Engineering Rizwan Hamid Quraishi, Director, Human Resources visited the minister’s office and handed over the cheque to Begum Monnujan […]

ADB Faster Project Implementation Week Concludes in Bangladesh

Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized “Faster Project Implementation Week 2019” at the Pan pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka and BRAC-CDM, Rajendrapur on 22-25 September to catalyze faster and quality implementation of development projects for delivering optimum benefits to the target stakeholders. The Faster Project Implementation Week 2019, with the theme of “Delivering Faster and Better Development […]

Around 1,000 attend reception marking 70th anniversary of PRC

Bangladeshi officials and other political figures among 1,000 people gathered at a reception Wednesday night marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which falls on Oct. 1, reports Xinhua. The reception hosted by the Chinese embassy in Bangladesh was attended by top Bangladesh government officials, foreign diplomats, […]

Bangladesh’s Eastern Bank all set to operate in China’s Guangzhou

by Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s leading Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) is all set to open its representative office in China’s Guangzhou province, according to the bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ali Reza Iftekhar. He said the bank is expanding its footprint in Southeast Asia with its sights […]