Brokers have been advised to know the sources of the large amount before placing buying orders on be-half of their big clients to help check money laundering through capital market, reports BSS. "Investment of large amount in stock without knowing the profession and the sources of the fund of the…

New York-based apps developer company,  ALLMediaLink Limited, has recently launched Bangla Radio app in Google Play Store, reports UNB. This is the first initiative of this kind in Bangladesh. Bangla Radio offers more than 70 FM and Online radio channels in a small app, said a press release yesterday.…

AFP, YANGON: Myanmar’s government has approved the country’s first-ever national minimum wage, state media reported yesterday, after months…

AFP, BEIJING: China yesterday scrapped a two decade limit on the per centage of funds banks can lend out relative to deposits, state media reported. China's commercial banking law has since its enactment in 1975 stipulated that no more than 75 per cent of a bank's deposits could be offered as…

AFP, RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil has slipped into recession, the government said Friday, deepening the gloom in the world’s seventh largest economy already…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is building a tech hub in Silicon Valley to help create new gadgetry for the supersoldiers of the future as well as tech-savvy consumers. A plan unveiled Friday called for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute to be based in San Jose, California to work on new kinds…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: When Chinese company Shanghai Zendai bought 1,600 hectares (4,000 acres) of land outside Johannesburg in 2013, it promised to build…

AFP, TOKYO: Japan on Friday kicked off the “World Assembly for Women” conference, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledging to shake up a corporate…