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-- 2018-09-19 12:42:25
China will invest 14.6 billion US dollars (about 100 billion yuan) for developing the digital economy in the next five years, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said. The investments will...
-- 2018-09-19 10:50:06
China and the United States plunged deeper into a trade war on Tuesday after Beijing added $60 billion of US products to its import tariff list in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s planne...
FE Report 2018-09-19 10:05:11
Experts at a dialogue have laid emphasis on transparency, accountability and government mechanism to help ensure best use of climate change resilience fund. They also called for ensuring data openn...
Munima Sultana 2018-09-19 09:35:51
A move has been taken to revise the city transport sector's plan for the second time. Sources said the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has already requested the Asian Development Bank (...
FE Online Report 2018-09-18 18:58:45
The per capita income rose to $1,751 in the last fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18) from $1,610 in the FY17. The rise in per head Gross National Income (GNI) in FY18 is 8.80 per cent higher than that of FY17...
FE Online Report 2018-09-18 16:40:25
Bangladesh economy has attained a stirring 7.86 per cent growth in the last fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18), driven by the expansion of industrial and agricultural sectors, government data showed Tuesday....
-- 2018-09-18 14:51:05
The average land prices of Japan has rose for the first time in 27 years in the year to July 1 as an influx of foreign tourists boosted demand for hotel properties and shops, according to a governme...
Siddique Islam 2018-09-18 09:25:21
A whopping 274 per cent rise in fuel oil import enhanced country's overall imports growth by nearly 16 per cent or US$ 640.40 million in July, officials said. The settlement of letters of credit (L...
-- 2018-09-17 21:32:35
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said Bangladesh needs assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in bigger way. The minister also sought cooperation of IFC to increase th...
-- 2018-09-17 15:28:46
Britain’s economy would face a “significantly worse” outlook if the country leaves the European Union (EU) next year without a deal than if it reaches a Brexit agreement, IMF said...
FE Report 2018-09-17 10:43:39
Creating enough jobs, improving investment climate and ensuring financial stability would be major challenges for Bangladesh to meet her post-LDC (least developing country) requirements, opined econ...
FE Report 2018-09-17 09:41:20
The management of the country's main sea port Chittagong should be handed over to an international port management entity to increase its efficiency, an international expert has said. Similar approac...
-- 2018-09-16 15:42:54
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday that the government is confident of meeting its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of gross domestic product in the current fiscal year, a day after o...
FE Report 2018-09-16 13:27:46
Bangladesh loses about $6.5 billion due to pollution and environmental degradation in urban areas every year, according to a World Bank report. This amount is equivalent to 3.4 per cent of the countr...
-- 2018-09-16 13:07:30
Coal India Limited (CIL), the country’s state-run coal mining company, wants a policy on coal exports before it could finalise commercial contracts for exporting the dry fuel, official sa...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-09-16 09:26:30
The government is in a hurry to get rural infrastructure development projects involving substantial volume of funds approved by the Planning Commission (PC) before the forthcoming national elections,...
FE Online Report 2018-09-15 17:36:01
Secondary trading of treasury bills and treasury bonds dropped sharply in the first eight months of the current calendar year, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that v...
FE Online Report 2018-09-15 17:25:18
Total investment by the country’s Islamic banking industry stood at Tk 2.16 trillion at the end of the past fiscal year (FY18). Bangladesh Bank statistics also showed that the investment by the...
-- 2018-09-15 12:13:53
United States import prices dropped 0.6 per cent and exports prices edged down 0.1 per cent in August, the US Department of Labor reported on Friday. The decline of import prices in August was the...
FE Report 2018-09-15 10:13:26
Bangladesh can boost its tax-GDP ratio by around 10 per cent by introducing carbon tax in the country, a recent World Bank study has said. Such type of tax can help the country reduce environmental...
Syful Islam 2018-09-15 10:01:12
The World Bank has identified five impediments to developing long-term finance in Bangladesh, officials said. The Washington-based lender has cited the weak points in a diagnostic report prepared und...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-09-15 09:57:11
The special loan restructuring facility offered to some businesses on the grounds of political instability in 2014 have yielded little results in keeping them out of the "default-cycle". The central...
-- 2018-09-14 16:26:18
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) Narsingdi region has taken a plan to disburse Tk 2.02 billion as agriculture loans among farmers of the district during the current fiscal year 2018-19. BKB sources said...
-- 2018-09-14 13:44:01
The job market in the second largest economic country of the world remained stable in August, with the unemployment rate at a relatively low level, official data showed Friday. The unemp...
FE Report 2018-09-14 10:55:00
Broader collaboration between the government and the private sectors is vital for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), said speakers at a discussion on Thursday. They also underscored...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-09-14 09:40:45
The rate of 'expected inflation' is predicted to rise this fiscal year driven by higher global commodity prices and exchange rate movement, the central bank has said. The Bangladesh Bank, which prepa...
-- 2018-09-13 19:31:58
Principal Coordinator (SDG Affairs) of the Prime Minister's Office Abul Kalam Azad on Thursday said Bangladesh's per capita income will reach US$16,000 by 2041 when the country will be a developed one...
-- 2018-09-13 12:33:33
The bad debt ratio among South Korean banks fell to the lowest in about 10 years in the second quarter (Q2), financial watchdog data has showed. According to the watchdog, the Financial Supervisory...
-- 2018-09-13 12:29:30
India’s retail inflation fell below the Reserve Bank of India’s medium-term target in August, increasing the likelihood it will keep interest rates on hold in October after raising them at...
FE Report 2018-09-13 09:27:11
The number of loan defaulters in the country reached 230,658, and the amount of unrecovered loan from them totalled over Tk 1.31 trillion until June 2018, according to the central bank. Finance Minis...
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