Xinhua, Dubai :The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to attract 14.4 billion U.S. dollars foreign direct investments in 2014, representing a 20 percent year-on-year increase, undersecretary for the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade said here Thursday.Speaking ahead of the Annual Investment Meeting 2014, Abdulla Al-Saleh said the UAE benefited a lot in 2013 from global economic recovery, its liberal and open economy, and Dubai’s winning of the bid to host the World Expo in 2020.The expected growth in...
AFP, Tokyo :A Japanese government report Friday said the economy was “recovering”, its first use of the word since the...
AFP, Brussels :EU lawmakers put the Troika under the microscope this week, wanting to know how and why the trio of international creditors imposed eurozone debt bailouts at such high cost to the ordinary public.Transparency, accountability, why were forecasts missed and more austerity imposed when unemployment was soaring, European Parliament deputies asked at a series of sometimes testy hearings with top Troika officials.“For many people in Europe, the Troika’s measures were imposed by outsiders … that is why there needs...
Xinhua, Madrid :With just under a week before the FITUR international tourism exhibition’s opening in the Spanish capital city, Taleb...
bdnews24.com :Implementation of budget for the current fiscal is the major challenge before the new government, says former adviser to...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Railway has incurred a loss of over Tk 8.25 crore in two fiscal years (FY07 and FY08) for realising license fee at lower rate from Grameen Phone, a leading mobile phone operator of the country.Although the Land Management Policy 2006 fixed license fee at Tk 335 and Tk 223 per square feet of land in divisional towns and other areas respectively, Bangladesh Railway realised license fee at the rates of Tk 16, Tk 8 and Tk 6...
bdnews24.com :Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said facilitation of transit and transshipment facilities to each other could help South Asian...
AFP, Detroit :Cars that park themselves, radar- guided safety sensors and infotainment systems with web access; automakers are competing for...
BSS, Rangpur :The rural women have been contributing largely in alleviating abject poverty, enhancing rural economy and attaining self-reliance through various income-generating activities in the northern region in recent years.Many of them have changed their fortune with their own initiatives, capacities and potentials through properly utilising local resources to set up a glorious example of difference saying good-bye to their abject poverty once for all.The successful women including landless and distressed, divorcees and widows, young girls and housewives of dozens...
BSS, Dhaka :Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will conduct a Rural Credit Survey across the country to undertake further development programmes and disburse agricultural credit timely and in an effective way.With this in view, the BBS inaugurated a two-day training programme for the supervising officers at the Parisankhyan Bhaban here today. After the training programme, the countrywide Rural Credit Survey will begin for the second time on January 26 an end on February 9.Under the programme, the BBS with its...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to find out possible ways to promote bilateral trade to the annual level of US$ 500 million, which is now about US$ 100 million, through establishing smoother connectivity.The agreement was reached at the seventh meeting of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Joint Trade Commission (JTC) held in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, from January 14-15.Issues related to border trade, cooperation in agriculture, food, fisheries, power and mineral resources sectors; shipping arrangement; exchange of business delegation; participation...