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Huntkey Group makes inroads into Bangladesh market

Huntkey Enterprise Group makes inroads into market in Bangladesh. Huntkey Enterprise Group, a global professional power supply provider, today announced it has started a cooperation with Global Brand Pvt.Ltd., to explore the mainstream markets in Bangladesh. hunckeyWith more than 8,000 technical employees, and its own center lab covers 2,000 square meters, Huntkey Product Line currently leads innovation of the household power supply industry. Adhering to the business philosophy of "Creating/passing/pursuing/realizing values", Huntkey continues ...

Jute genome decoder Maqsudul Alam passes away

Bangladeshi scientist Maqsudul Alam, a professor of University of Hawaii who decoded jute plant genome, died of liver cirrhosis at a hospital in the United States at the age of 60. He breathed his last at Queens Medical Center in Hawaii around 2:18am (Bangladesh time), Mahbubul Alam Babu, a brother of the scientist, told The Daily Star Online over phone. alamMaqsudul was admitted to the hospital with liver problem on December 2 and since then he was undergoing treatment there, Mahbubul said. The scientist will be buried in Hawaii on Monday, he ...

Democracy deficit in Bangladesh    

Over a span of three decades, Bangladesh’s multi-party democracy has turned into “partyarchy”, a tendency of political parties to exert overwhelming influence on state and non-state institutions. It has resulted in a downslide in the rule of law, democratic accountability and state building—the three tenets of political development, says a study report on governance. The report described these developments as “deficit in democracy” and “slow development of pluralism in the practices of democracy”. [caption id="attachment_11501" align="alignleft" width="300"]

China offers preferential loan to renovate KPM      

China has offered preferential loan to renovate the Karnaphuli Paper Mills (KPM) in Chittagong to enhance its production capacity to 30,000 metric tonnes a year. In a letter to the Industries Secretary on December 5, 2014, DGM of the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) Zhao Zhengxian also requested the Bangladesh government to take necessary steps for signing an MoU between CMC and Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to facilitate the works. kpmSources at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) said an internatio...

Vocational training for RMG workers

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Skills and Employment Programme of Bangladesh (SEP-B) to provide vocational training to the RMG workers to improve their productivity, the Dhaka Tribune reported. Bangladesh-rmg-workerBGMEA vice president Reaz Bin Mahmud and Paul Weijers, team leader of SEP-B, signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organizations. Under the MoU, which aims at developing private sector-led vocational traini...

Bangladeshi political feud plays out in Chicago street

The request to put up a pair of familiar brown street signs on North Clark Street in Rogers Park sailed through the Chicago City Council, joining the 1,500 other honorary roadways aldermen have approved for 50 years. This one, however, didn’t end up a feel-good move, like bestowing the sobriquet “Frank Sinatra Way” on a stretch of Grand Avenue in a traditionally Italian neighborhood or proclaiming a couple blocks of Campbell Avenue in North Center the “DeVry Institute of Technology Court.” [caption id="attachment_11459" align="alignleft" width="300"]
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