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KL to recruit 5 lakh BD workers

The expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry has said that Malaysia announced to recruit 500,000 workers from Bangladesh in the next six months of 2015. passport22222The recruitment will take place under the new Business-to Business (B-B) mechanism, the ministry said in a press release this evening. Malaysian Home Minister Dato’ Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi made the announcement during a bilateral meeting with Expatriate Welfare Minister Khandker Moshararraf Hossain in Putrajaya today, according to the press release. ...

Ill-earned money of corrupt politicians flies abroad

Be it shutdown or blockade, their fortune is safe. A section of Bangladeshi politicians, young or old, who have made easy fortunes, are increasingly investing their questionable wealth abroad to ensure a secure future for their families. A number of leaders of both the Awami League and the BNP—from the central level to associate student bodies of the two parties—are learned to have secured their future overseas, by winning citizenship for their families through investment visas or business migration schemes. The list is getting longer every month, given the political instability in the country, a good number of politicians, businesspeople and bureaucrats have told The Daily Star.

Mobile banking expands rapidly in Bangladesh

On the first Friday of every month, Sabina Begum makes the short trip from her single-room shack in a crowded Dhaka slum to a nearby grocery. The grocer, in addition to selling her much-needed supplies, doubles as her financial-services provider. Ms. Begum hands the grocer cash, and with a few clicks on a basic key-press mobile phone, he sends the money on its way. At roughly the same time, in a village 300 kilometers away, Ms. Begum’s father, Bosir Uddin, partially blind and slowed by arthritis, walks to a tea shop in the village square, where he waits for the money transfer from Dhaka. It duly arrives in the form a text message to the tea shop

Japan beating China in race for Indian Ocean deep-sea port

Japan is beating out China in a race to build Bangladesh’s first deep-sea port as the region’s powers jostle for a foothold in the Indian Ocean. Construction of the 18-meter-deep port at Matarbari on Bangladesh’s southeast coast is set to start by January, Japan International Cooperation Agency said in an e-mailed response to questions from Bloomberg News. That’s bad news for a stalled China plan to build a port about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. [caption id="attachment_17274" align="alignleft" width="300"]bd-japan Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo A...

First experience with an American school

So the teacher goes, “Who would like to sit next to him?” and one of the kids pulls a desk next to him that was empty and says, “I’ll sit next to him.” So as I was walking toward the desk, and when I reached there, I pulled out the chair to sit on it and another kid went behind the chair and pulled it and I fell. And since I was chubby it made a lot of noise and all the kids started laughing and I was embarrassed. [caption id="attachment_17271" align="alignleft" width="300"]IMG_5828_0 Eighth grader Tanzid Sakib goes to public school in Cambridge, M...

Bank Asia, Polar sign MoU

Mr. Md. Arfan Ali, Deputy Managing Director of Bank Asia and Shah Masud Imam, Chief Operating Officer of Dhaka Ice-cream Industries Ltd (Polar) are seen exchanging agreement on DSC_7551Corporate Privilege Account at the office of Polar at Tejgaon Industrial area in the capital recently. Head of Finance of Dhaka Ice-cream Industries Ltd Mr. Alamgir Hossain Khan and Head of Cards Department of Bank Asia Mr. Md. Saifur Rahman are also seen in the picture.
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