Sunday, 23 February, 2020
Bangladesh, China and Myanmar have agreed to form a technical committee to assess the feasibility for import of electricity from China using Myanmar corridor. “We have agreed to form a technical…
Bangladesh, S’pore sign two MoUs
Singapore: Bangladesh and Singapore on Monday signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) for collaboration…
Int’l food, agro, poultry expo begins at ICCB on March 21
Conference and Exhibition Management Services Ltd (CEMS) Global will organise a four-day exhibition…
Women Leadership festival
celebrates inspiring women
The first ever women Leadership Fest ends in Dhaka on Sunday through distribution of awards to successful…
VAT collection witnesses 30pc growth in Feb
Revenue collection under the Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU) of Value Added Tax (VAT) witnessed a 30 percent…
Qatar’s biggest bank looks to double foreign ownership
DOHA: Qatar National Bank, the Middle East's biggest bank, on Monday said it aimed to almost double…
Rashid joins UCB as AMD
Mohammad Mamdudur Rashid joined United Commercial Bank Limited as Additional Managing Director (AMD).…
Premier Bank gets new AMD
Abdul Jabbar Choudhury has been appointed as Additional Managing Director of Premier Bank Limited recently.…
Masroor new DMD
of Trust Bank
Junaid Masroor has recently joined Trust Bank as Deputy Managing Director (DMD). Prior to his new assignment,…
News of the day
Equity markets mostly rose Monday on optimism over solid US jobs data and the prospect of a meeting…
Germany, China warn Trump tariff
moves threaten global trade
BERLIN: Germany denounced moves by President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on US metal imports, saying…
Oil edges up on reduced
US drilling activity
SINGAPORE: Oil markets edged up on Monday on the back of a drop in the number of US rigs drilling for…
‘India’s equity market-cap
to hit $6tn by 2027’
NEW DELHI: Market-capitalisation (market-cap) of Indian equities is likely to hit $6.1 trillion by 2027,…
China offers huge market potential
for US energy efficiency cos
NEW YORK: Being the world's largest building construction market, China can offer many business…
Asian markets build on global
rally after US jobs report
HONG KONG: Asian markets on Monday extended last week's rally as a solid US jobs report boosted…
S'pore, Indonesia
to share expertise
on e-commerce
logistics
SINGAPORE: Kicking off two learning-exchange programmes between Singapore and Indonesia, about 100 public…
Japan, UAE
sign new MoUs
to boost
investments
Abu Dhabi: Three new Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) were signed between Japan and the UAE to promote…
China gears up
for launch of
crude oil futures
BEIJING: China is set to launch a much-anticipated yuan-denominated crude oil futures contract in two…
Outlook for global chip market
turns rosier
NEW YORK: The global semiconductor market is expected to grow at a faster-than-expected click this year…
News of the day
Qatar National Bank, the Middle East's biggest bank, on Monday said it aimed to almost double its…
China shrinks steel industry
slowly, drawing Western ire
BEIJING: China's steel mills, a target of US President Donald Trump's ire, are their industry's…
Trump sharpens trade row, threatening to tax German cars
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has singled out Europe in a billowing trade row, threatening to…
‘Worrying times’ ahead for S’pore
with US trade tariffs
SINGAPORE: New trade tariffs imposed by the US on steel and aluminium imports and the resulting jostling…
South Korea
considers joining revived TPP
SEOUL: South Korea needs to move faster to join a Pacific trade deal signed by Japan and 10 other regional…
S’pore’s retail
sales drop 8pc
SINGAPORE: Retail sales in the first month of 2018 got off to a poor start, but this was attributed…
Malaysian banks’ solid performance
to continue in 2018: Moody’s
KUALA LUMPUR: Moody's Investors Service said Monday that its six rated Malaysian banks that showed…
Stocks plunge further
Stock markets plunged further on Monday due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities despite higher…
Saudi Aramco IPO delayed until 2019
LONDON: The initial public offering of oil giant Saudi Aramco may be delayed until 2019 at the earliest,…
Tokyo shares gain for third straight session
TOKYO: Tokyo shares climbed Monday for a third straight session as global investors cheered healthy…
Marcel opens
exclusive
showroom in Jhalokathi
Marcel opened an exclusive showroom named Tanisha Electronics at Rajapur in Jhalokathi on Sunday. Marcel…
DR Congo
enacts law to hike tax on minerals
KINSHASA: DR Congo President Joseph Kabila enacted a law to hike taxes on so-called strategic metals…
Taka gains against euro, pound
The local currency Taka gained against the Euro and the UK pound and it remained unchanged against the…
Commodity at a glance
Prices of most essential commodities remained unchanged in the city’s kitchen markets on Monday.…
