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Bangladeshi jobseekers being smuggled into Hong kong

The illegal jobseekers, mostly from Bangladesh and Pakistan are allegedly being smuggled into Hong Kong (HK) through Shenzhen of China, an HK-based English daily reported on Sunday. The South China Morning Post report claimed that illegal immigrants from Bangladesh or Pakistan had entered HK by boat in the past years. [caption id="attachment_8803" align="alignleft" width="300"]china-sampan Middlemen are supposedly paid HK$10,000 to HK$12,000 to take illegal immigrants to Hong Kong by high-speed boat. Photo taken from South China Morning Post....

Indian businesses urge to check jute imports from Bangladesh

With domestic demand for jute bags shrinking, local manufacturers have asked the Centre for concessions to export for countering competition from Bangladesh in global markets. jute goodsManufacturers have also demanded that penal duties be imposed on jute imported from across the border to nullify the impact of export subsidies given by Bangladesh, making its products cheaper here in the absence of import duty. “We met the Textiles Secretary and put across the acute demand crisis that the industry is going through and the steps that can be taken ...

Shrimp exports to US plummet

Shrimp export to the United States has almost halved over the past several years although Bangladesh’s overall exports marked all-time high last year mainly for steady flow to the European market, the industry sources said. MDG : Bangladesh Shrimp industryExport Promotion Bureau (EPB) officials confirmed the state of external trade to the FE Tuesday. They listed several factors that contributed to the fall of trade on the U.S. market and the rise on the EU market that propped up the country’s shrimp export. Shrimp exports fetched USD 638 ...

North Korea imports from Bangladesh in FY 2014

The North Korea spent over US$146,000 to buy medical supplies from Bangladesh in the fiscal year 2014, the Washington-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported, citing trade statistics from the Bangladeshi Export Promotion Bureau. The figure is more than double the $68,000 tallied in the fiscal year 2013. The country closes its books in June. The North likely chose Bangladesh as its trading partner because the latter can copy patented drugs and sell them abroad for now as per an international agreement brokered by the World Trade Organization, the Dhaka office of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency said.

Girl trafficked in India, pushed into flesh trade

A 17-year-old girl from Bangladesh was allegedly sold and pushed into flesh trade in Thane, Mumbai and Bangalore, police said today. The teenage girl, hailing from Muldhar village in Faridpur district of Bangladesh, has alleged in her complaint filed yesterday with Thane’s Kalwa police, that her friend’s acquaintance repeatedly raped her in April, while promising marriage at her native place, Sub-Inspector Sachin Ambre said. womenIn the same month, he sold her to agents (involved in trafficking) in Bangladesh who in-turn sold her to their counterparts in India, he said. The girl was subsequently brought to Maharashtra’s Thane dis...

Sikkim CM invited to Indo-Bangladesh conclave

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has received an invitation to attend the India-Bangladesh Business Conclave to be held in Dhaka on August 23-24 next, official sources said. indiaOrganised by the India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the conclave is billed to focus on regional connectivity across South Asia and find ways for removal of bottlenecks in the free flow of trade and commerce. The organizers, in their invitation letter to the Chief Minister, expressed confidence that his views would help in finding a new road map for strengthenin...
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