Secretary General of BIMSTEC Tenzin Lekphell calls on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganobhaban in the city on Wednesday.

China abolishes tobacco price controls

AFP, Beijing :China has abolished price controls on tobacco leaf, the last agricultural product to have limits, the country’s top economic planner said as authorities seek to give the market a greater economic role.But tobacco leaf prices are only a small factor in the cost of cigarettes — a state monopoly in China-so the move is unlikely to have a significant effect on smokers.China is the world’s biggest cigarette market and government efforts to curb smoking have only had limited...

6 Jan 2015, 12:00 am