Samsung has sold more than 200,000 units of smartphones assembled locally in the four months since the launch of its plant in Bangladesh in May this year. The plant in Narsingdi is currently assembling products that account for 96 per cent of Samsung’s smartphone sales in the country. According…

The pound held most of its gains yesterday after hitting a five-month high on growing hopes that Britain and the European Union are close to a Brexit…

South Korea's central bank yesterday cut its key interest rate to the lowest point in two years in an effort to prop up its slowing economy as it is hit by a trade spat with Japan. The move comes as President Moon Jae-in battles to kickstart inflation -- after prices fell for the first time last…

China's economy expanded at its slowest rate in nearly three decades during the third quarter, held back by cooling domestic demand and a protracted…

Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), failed to uphold the upsurge of previous day. The broad index, DSEX closed in red again at…

Chinese tech giant Huawei said yesterday that its revenue for the first nine months of the year grew by almost a quarter despite a US campaign to isolate…

APEC finance ministers expressed "moderate optimism" on Tuesday that the United States and China will end their trade war and sign an agreement during the forum's summit in Santiago next month. For the last 18 months the world's two largest economies have been embroiled in a trade…

Samsul Alam Mallick, managing director of New Zealand Dairy Products Bangladesh, has recently been elected as the president of Intellectual Property Association…

People have more trust in robots than their managers, according to the second annual AI at Work study conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, a research firm. According to the study, 65 per cent of workers are optimistic, excited and grateful about having robot co-workers, a press statement said.…