Saudi Arabia has expressed its willingness to recruit more male workers and trained female domestic workers from Bangladesh to meet the demand of their domestic market, reports BSS. “We want to hire more male workers in all categories including doctors and engineers as well as trained female workers,”…

The premier bourse of the country, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), ended the last week positively with lower turnover while small-cap companies ruled the gainers’ list, reports UNB. The daily average turnover at the DSE was Tk 387.71 crore, a drop by 11.35 per cent, while last week’s average…

AFP, NEW DELHI: India notched up its billionth mobile phone subscriber in October, the country's telecoms regulator said, underscoring the importance of its fast-growing mobile market, the world's second largest after China. Mobile phone subscriptions have boomed in India in recent years as…

AFP, TOKYO: Japan's All Nippon Airways is buying three Airbus A380s in a billion-dollar deal, business daily Nikkei said yesterday, making it the first Japanese carrier to own the superjumbo jet. The Japanese airline plans to introduce the double-decker planes on flights to Hawaii and other overseas…

AFP, NEW DELHI: More than a million private cars were banned from New Delhi's roads on Friday, as authorities began trialling drastic new measures…

AFP, KIEV: Ukraine's free-trade deal with the EU comes into effect yesterday, coinciding with the start of Moscow's food embargo against Kiev that will force the impoverished former Soviet republic to revisit its economic model. The free-trade accord is part of the broader EU Association Agreement…

AFP, BEIJING: A gauge of Chinese factory activity ticked up in December but continued to indicate contraction for a fifth straight month, official data…

AFP, LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to fight hard in 2016 to resolve troublesome features of Britain's relationship with the EU ahead of a planned referendum that could come this year. Cameron said aspects of being in the European Union were the cause of "so much frustration"…