Business Desk :Some 94 per cent of consumers in Asia Pacific (APAC) will consider using at least one of the emerging payment methods including QR codes, digital or mobile wallets, among others, in the coming year.The Mastercard New Payments Index, which was conducted across 18 markets globally, including India, Australia and Thailand, has revealed that the range of payment technologies has accelerated following the outbreak of the pandemic.The other payment technologies which have been taken into account while conducting the...
Business Desk :Akij Motors, one stop automobile solution provider on Saturday introduced its new vehicle ‘Forland M3′ through a launch...
Business Desk :The embassies of Bangladesh need to work to take advantage of post-novel coronavirus export trade; with the ambassadors posted to different countries playing an important role.This was stated by Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi at his official residence in the capital on Sunday, according to a press release.Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary, Ambassador to Kuwait Major General Md Ashikuzzaman and Ambassador to Uzbekistan Mohammad Zahangir Alam, participated in an online meeting arranged with the minister....
Business :‘Asahi Eito’, a 300-year-old Japanese ceramic manufacturing company, has recently started its journey in Bangladesh. The company said its...
AFP, Hong Kong :Asian markets were mixed Tuesday after their latest rally, with investors awaiting the corporate earnings season with...
Xinhua, Canberra :China has managed its economy better than expected and will still be the engine of the world’s economic growth in the next ten years, a leading Australian economist said during an exclusive interview with Xinhua.China did better than some commentators have suggested it might do, said Peter Drysdale, head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and East Asia Forum, the Australian National University (ANU).“China is still the engine of global economic growth. Even if China does...
Business Desk :State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, Md Mahbub Ali, said aviation in Bangladesh will almost triple in growth over the next 15 years.By 2017, the country’s aviation market almost doubled with passenger and cargo transportation growing at a rate of about 10% over the previous 10 years, the state minister said.He added that harnessing the tremendous growth potential of this sector can lead to significant employment opportunities for people in the country to help improve its socio-economic...
AFP, Francfort :A state-backed “bad bank” that would take over non-performing loans from a country’s banks, as has been agreed for Italy, could also be an option for other countries, the head of Europe’s new banking resolution authority said on Wednesday. “Italy has come up with a constrution for a bad bank that uses a market solution without state aid,” the head of the Single Resolution Board, Elke Koenig, told the business daily Handelsblatt in an interview. “But Italy isn’t...
Business Desk :Bangladesh will sail ahead, combining opportunities and capabilities, by empowering youths.While opportunities are being created through loans and...
Business Desk :Bangladesh will sail ahead, combining opportunities and capabilities, by empowering youths.While opportunities are being created through loans and financial support, capabilities are being built through training.Karmasangsthan Bank’s “Bangabandhu Jubo Rin” (Bangabandhu Youth Loan), a programme for trained unemployed youth to observe the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is a step in that direction.Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Saturday said this online while speaking as the chief guest at the cheque handover...
Economic Reporter :Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the government has taken an initiative to digitise Bangladesh Customs as part of its Digital Bangladesh vision.“The government has taken a development programme titled Digital Bangladesh in order to use modern information technology in all spheres of the state management. The digitisation of Bangladesh Customs has been included in the programme,” he said while addressing a seminar at the Officers’ Club in the capital. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) organised...
BSS, Rangpur :Bangladesh has been marching fast towards a middle income nation following successful implementation of the digitisation programme that has become an irreversible process establishing accountability and transparency.They were addressing the launching ceremony of a two-day Digital Innovation Fair-2014 being organised by the upazila district administration at Chirirbandar Girls’ High School premises in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur on Friday.The UNDP-assisted Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been extending assistance in arranging the fair...