Trade issues, including duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) market access, direct port connectivity and signing of a number of new MoUs will be the key agenda at the first-ever Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Thailand to be held here on Thursday.
According to a senior official, bilateral trade, investment and technical cooperation, road, air and seaports connectivity, employment of Bangladeshi workers in Thailand, introduction of Buddhist circuit tourism between Bangladesh and Thailand, cooperation in defence, culture and sports and collaboration in regional for a, including Bimstec, ARF and ASEM are also
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.
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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.
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World Hydrography Day was celebrated in Bangladesh as across the globe with the theme “Our seas and waterways - yet to be fully charted and explored”.
An ISPR release said that to mark the day, Bangladesh Navy organized a seminar at School of Maritime Warfare and Tactics (SMWT) in Chittagong Naval Region, which put emphasis of the hydrography regarding different issues related to the world economy including expansion of trade in maritime ways, collection of natural resources from sea, marine science and research, and defense and security.
Bangladesh is ranked 32
nd in the list of fragile states, according to the newly released Fragile States Index (FSI) by the Fund for Peace.
The annual FSI was published on Fund for Peace’s website highlighting global political, economic and social pressures experienced by the states.
According to the report, among the 178 countries in the list, seven out of ten top fragile states are from Africa: South Sudan (1
st), Somalia (2
nd), Central African Republic (3
rd), Sudan (4
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selected districts.
The overall goal of the initiative is to build capacity of elected women representatives and officials of local government institutions focussing on improved awareness of child rights...
selected districts.
The overall goal of the initiative is to build capacity of elected women representatives and officials of local government institutions focussing on improved awareness of child rights...
