State Minister Ministry of Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque yesterday said the government is firmly committed to eliminate hazardous child labour in the country by 2021, reports BSS. “The present government is working relentlessly to attain the goal. We have adopted a three-year-long project…

The European Union has adjourned its ban on some Indonesian crude palm oil (CPO) exports, allowing the country to ratchet up shipments of the commodity abroad, an Indonesian minister said on Tuesday, reports Xinhua from Jakarta. The implementation of the EU’s prohibition on one of Indonesia’s…

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and South Asia Trade Monitoring Committee within the European Parliament Sajjad Karim has urged Bangladesh to…

Stocks returned to upward trend again as all indices on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) gained marginally today after maintaining…

Judy Hsu, regional CEO for ASEAN and South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank, has arrived in Dhaka for her first official visit to Bangladesh, the bank said…

Branches concerned of all scheduled banks will remain open on Saturday (June 30), the last day of fiscal year 2017-18, to provide cheque, chalan, pay-order or demand draft services to clients for payment of their income tax, VAT and customs duty, reports BSS. Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday issued a…

Facebook said Tuesday that it is taking steps to ease a January policy banning financial products and services associated with cryptocurrency, reports San Francisco. Rob Leathern, product management director at Facebook, said in an official blog post Tuesday that the world’s largest social media…

South Korea’s terms of trade worsened last month on expensive crude oil, central bank data showed Tuesday, reports Xinhua from Seoul. The net terms-of-trade index for goods shrank 5.3 percent in May from a year earlier, after sliding 5 percent in the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea…

Growth in lending to companies in the eurozone picked up in May, official data showed yesterday, a bright spot in the data as fears of economic slowdown intensify, reports Frankfurt Am Main. Adjusted for some purely financial transactions, the pace of growth in credit to firms picked up to 3.6 per cent…

The board of directors of the Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd (CSE) in its meeting held yesterday decided to remove the contract charge from its current fees structure. The existing commission charge has also been reviewed to a flat 0.023 per cent, CSE said in a press statement yesterday.  No contract…

Walton has cut the prices of its some models of LED televisions on the occasion of the ongoing Russia Football World Cup-2018, the company said in a press statement yesterday. Walton authorities said, a good number of people thronged the nationwide Walton outlets to purchase world-class LED and smart…

China’s major industrial firms posted increased profit growth in the first five months of 2018, official statistics showed  yesterday, reports Xinhua from Beijing. Profits at China’s major industrial firms grew 16.5 per cent in the first five months, quickening from the 15-per cent…