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BB Governor at ICAB seminar in city

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman as Chief Guest spoke at a seminar on 'Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Measurers of Financial and DNFBP Sectors: Bangladesh Perspective' organized by the Institute of Chartered Members Conference picture 20-5-15Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) at CA Bhaban on Wednesday, 20 May 2015. The Governor applauded the role of CAs and said that Chartered Accountants are the Gatekeepers in accounting profession of the country. DG, A...

Reports on overcoming business challenges in BD

The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh's Center for Enterprise and Society, in collaboration with MRB Bangladesh, has published a comprehensive report on the strategies that entrepreneurs use to overcome the obstacles faced when setting up businesses in Bangladesh. The report was based on the Overcoming Business Challenges Survey (OBCS) and it explores effective strategies _MG_1257_aleading to positive outcomes in the respective sectors. The OBCS is a survey of 536 CEOs and Managing Directors from small, medium, and large firms across th...

Malaysia, Indonesia to accept boats in breakthrough on migrants

Malaysia and Indonesia said Wednesday they would no longer turn away boatpeople, a breakthrough in the region’s migrant crisis that came just hours after hundreds more starving people were rescued at sea. rohingyaEarlier, Myanmar, whose policies toward its ethnic Rohingya minority are widely blamed for fuelling the human flow, also softened its line by offering to provide humanitarian aid to stricken migrants. Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand had sparked growing international outrage by driving off boats overloaded with exhausted and dying Rohingya ...

Boat-people being ransomed off Bangladesh

The horror of human trafficking through South East Asia has taken another nightmarish twist with passengers now being ransomed to return home to Bangladesh, say reliable sources. Human cargoes had been loaded on board as many as 16 vessels, ready for delivery to the Thai-Malaysia border, when Thai authorities finally exposed scores of graves near the traffickers’ secret jungle camps earlier this month. rohingyaCutting off the huge illegal trade in people left thousands stranded at sea by the no-go nations, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia - plus tho...

Govt to strengthen coastguard to deal with migrant crisis

Bangladesh is to strengthen its coastguard operations in an effort to stop human trafficking and other illegal activities on its shores as a refugee crisis mounts in Asia. An estimated 25,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar boarded smugglers’ boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many as in the same period of 2014, the UN refugee rohingyaagency has said. “We have undertaken a 4.6 billion taka (($74 million) project to strengthen the coastguards,” Planning Minister Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday, adding that...

Govt tightens border vigil to fight human trafficking

The government will establish more Border Operational Post (BOP) of paramilitary border guards in southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts areas to fight the growing cases of human trafficking. BGBState Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this on Tuesday at a press conference, Xinhua news agency reported. “We’ve decided to strengthen our efforts to better combat the problem of human trafficking by establishing more BOP of Border Guard of Bangladesh in around 250 km border line in Chittagong Hill Tracts that has not been well protected,” ...
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