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Govt to approve proposal for new road to Myanmar

Bangladesh’s economic policy-making body is all set to approve a proposal for constructing a new road to Myanmar, aimed at boosting bilateral trade, an official said Monday. A Planning Ministry official who did not like to be named said the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council will likely approve the proposal on Tuesday in a meeting with BD-MyanmarPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports Xinhua. The 540 million taka (about 7 million US dollars) proposed new road will pass through Bangladesh’s two southeastern hilly dist...

TIB study unearths huge graft in land offices

Revealing widespread corruption and irregularities in the country’s land service sector, a new study shows that land owners have to bribe up to Tk 2 lakh for the mutation work of a plot of land, reports news UNB. The study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) unfolds various bribery rates in different land services and civil suits relating to land disputes. It says land owners are forced to bribe Tk 100-10,000 in paying Land tib logoDevelopment Tax (LDT) while Tk 1,000-50,000 for land registration, Tk 200-1,000 for withdrawal of re...

China to build floating oil terminal for Bangladesh

The government is set to sign a contract with a Chinese company next month to establish the country’s first floating terminal in the Bay of Bengal to unload imported fuel oil, officials said yesterday. bangladesh-and-china-flagEnergy division officials said a state-owned Chinese company is to obtain the work order from the Bangladesh government to install the floating terminal - single point mooring (SPM) - in the sea near Maheshkhali Island. The energy division requested the planning commission (PC) last week to a...

BWCCI training under INSPIRED programme

Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) organized a 4 days long training of trainers (ToT) from 18 August 2015 at Centre for Human Resources Development at BURO Bangladesh Tangail Office. PhotoThe project ‘Socio- economic empowerment of women through promotion of natural fiber-based products from agricultural wastages’ under INSPIRED program funded by European Union and Ministry of Industries, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. BWCCI has been implementing the project to build capacity of 2000 women entrepreneurs for pr...

Seminar on ‘Bangladesh-China Trade Finance’ in Kunming

  International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Bangladesh, The world business organization is organizing jointly with ICC China and CCPIT a Seminar on Bangladesh China Trade Finance : Role of Banks in Kunming, China on 21-22 August 2015. A total of senior level 44 bankers from 18 Banks including Bangladesh Bank will be participating at the Seminar. This is for the first time that ICC Bangladesh is organizing such a high level Seminar outside the country. Some 60 bankers of Chinese Banks will also be participating at the same Seminar together with Bangladeshi Bankers. bd-viet... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

South African Deputy Minister to arrive today

The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation’ Ms Nomaindiya Mfeketo’ will pay working visits to Bangladesh and Nepal from Wednesday to Friday this week. It will be the first ever visit by a South African Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation to both countries since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1994. The Third Senior Officials Meeting between South Africa and Bangladesh will also take place on Wednesday in Dhaka. This event will be co-chaired by the Deputy Director-General for Asia and Nomaindiya+Mfeketo
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