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Remittance drops for second month

Money-RemittanceThe inflow of remittance into the country continued to fall in the last two consecutive months of January and February. The country received remittance worth US$1.17bn in February, dropped by 5% from $1.2bn in the previous month. However, the remittance amount received in February this year, was almost same in the corresponding period of last year, according to Bangladesh Bank data released yesterday. The expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $2.42bn as remittance in the first two months of this year, which was s...

DenimsandJeans.com Bangladesh show begins

A two-day long DenimsandJeans.com show begins today (March 1, 2015) at Hotel Radisson in Dhaka, aiming to help increase exports of denim apparel from Bangladesh. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Denim 3rd show Pic 1GmbH, which works with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is the technical partner of this event. Twenty-six companies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Germany, Turkey, Br...

EU for protecting democratic rights

The European Union has conveyed its concerns to Dhaka, in a number of areas, especially the country’s current political situation. The EU officials also stressed the need for protecting “the fundamental democratic rights of the people of Bangladesh” in view of recent violent incidents. euSuch issues came up for discussion at the meeting on sub-group on governance, human rights and migration held in Dhaka on 26-27 February. “Victims of violence deserve proper justice,” a press from the EU issued on Saturday said about the discussion. It insisted that “perpe...

Dhaka Tribune goes compact

Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's one of the fastest growing English daily, is turning compact from March 1. The smaller newspaper is less cumbersome and has a modern reader-friendly design, which makes browsing through the dtnewspaper a pleasant experience to look forward to every day. The 32-page compact newspaper measures 14.25'' tall and 11'' wide, the same size as a broadsheet paper folded in half. As a Bangladeshi newspaper of international standard, the Dhaka Tribune's shif...

Western cos agree to resume business with BD RMG

After weeks of negotiations, Western companies have agreed to resume business with a Bangladeshi apparel maker on the condition that it would bargain with, and cease beating, union leaders. rmgLate last year, as reported by Steven Greenhouse and Hiroko Tabuchi in the New York Times, closed-circuit camera footage emerged of a female union leader being swarmed and assaulted, only three months after a female union president was severely beaten over the head with an iron rod. Both incidents occurred at factories owned by the Azim Group, which reports employi...

US calls for due process, room for political opposition

The United States (US) hopes due process will be followed after an anti-corruption court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, the top US diplomat for South Asia said on Thursday. [caption id="attachment_13359" align="alignleft" width="300"]File photo of BNP Chairperson Khaleda waving to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia waves to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka in this January 20, 2014 file photo. ...
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