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Malaysia, Indonesia to accept boats in breakthrough on migrants

Malaysia and Indonesia said Wednesday they would no longer turn away boatpeople, a breakthrough in the region’s migrant crisis that came just hours after hundreds more starving people were rescued at sea. rohingyaEarlier, Myanmar, whose policies toward its ethnic Rohingya minority are widely blamed for fuelling the human flow, also softened its line by offering to provide humanitarian aid to stricken migrants. Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand had sparked growing international outrage by driving off boats overloaded with exhausted and dying Rohingya ...

Boat-people being ransomed off Bangladesh

The horror of human trafficking through South East Asia has taken another nightmarish twist with passengers now being ransomed to return home to Bangladesh, say reliable sources. Human cargoes had been loaded on board as many as 16 vessels, ready for delivery to the Thai-Malaysia border, when Thai authorities finally exposed scores of graves near the traffickers’ secret jungle camps earlier this month. rohingyaCutting off the huge illegal trade in people left thousands stranded at sea by the no-go nations, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia - plus tho...

Tea prices rally for third week on fresh leaf

Tea prices in Bangladesh rose for a third straight week at the weekly auction on Tuesday as fresh leaf arrived at the beginning of the new marketing season, brokers said. Tea prices dropped sharply in the last marketing season on tepid demand from local buyers because of the damage to business tea cupsentiment caused by the renewed political unrest early this year that left more than 120 people dead and disrupted supplies. Bangladeshi tea fetched an average 212.84 taka ($2.6) per kg at the auction on Tuesday, the th...

Govt to strengthen coastguard to deal with migrant crisis

Bangladesh is to strengthen its coastguard operations in an effort to stop human trafficking and other illegal activities on its shores as a refugee crisis mounts in Asia. An estimated 25,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar boarded smugglers’ boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many as in the same period of 2014, the UN refugee rohingyaagency has said. “We have undertaken a 4.6 billion taka (($74 million) project to strengthen the coastguards,” Planning Minister Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday, adding that...

PBL provides SME loan to Sylhet women

Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor of Bangladesh Bank and Managing Director of Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) Md. Abdul Halim Chowdhury handed over a SME Loan Disbursement Cheqe to Mrs. Purnima Rani Guala, Women Entrepreneur of Pubali Bank Ltd in an open credit disbursement to women entrepreneurs ceremony at a local BB on SMEhotel in Sylhet recently. Mentionable, Pubali Bank Limited has been awarded the Certificate of Appreciation by Bangladesh Bank entitled SME Financing Award-2014 and SME Women Entrepreneur Financing-2014 for outstanding performance r...

ICAB contributes Tk 1m for Nepal victims

President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) Masih Malik Chowdhury FCA has handed over a cheque for Taka Ten lakh (One million) to Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Nepal PictureNepal in Dhaka Sushil Kumar Lamsal for rehabilitation of the Nepal earthquake victims recently. ICAB Vice president Kamrul Abedin FCA, Council Member Dewan Nurul Islam FCA, Muhammad Farooq FCA and Military Attache of Embassy of Nepal Colonel Sagar Bahadur K.C were present on the occasion.
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