Advance ruling system workshop held in city
A WCO Revenue Package national workshop on the development of an Advance Ruling System for classification, funded by CCF China, was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 28 February to 2 March 2016, at the National Board of Revenue. The workshop was officially opened by the Chairman of the National Board of Revenue and Secretary of Internal Resources of the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Md. Nojibur Rahman.
Fourteen Customs officers participated in the workshop, which was facilitated by a Technical Officer from the WCO Secretariat, a WCO accredited expert from China and an external expert.
India-Bangladesh drill in Sundarbans
In an attempt to bring in more synergy in coordinated border management, border-guarding forces of Bangladesh and India conducted their first-ever joint exercise in the riverine borders of the Sundarbans.
The exercise between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) 
commenced with troopers, including dog and bomb squads, from both the forces carrying out joint searches of cargo vessels on the Ichamati river.
The second day of the drill called ‘Sundarbans Maithri’ on Sunday was ...
commenced with troopers, including dog and bomb squads, from both the forces carrying out joint searches of cargo vessels on the Ichamati river.
The second day of the drill called ‘Sundarbans Maithri’ on Sunday was ...
Trafficked Nepali, Bangladeshi women trapped in Syria
Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realise “something had gone very wrong”.
Frequently beaten with a baton and given only one meal a day, Magar says she spent 13 months working as a maid for a Syrian household and pleading to be allowed to go home.
“I was just in shock, I couldn’t stop crying,” the single mother-of-two told AFP.
Magar is among scores of poor Nepali and Bangladeshi women who travelled to the Middle East on the promise of a good job, only to be trafficked into Syria, wracked by five years of civil war.
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Bank Asia scholarship program in Lohagara, Ctg
As a part of its corporate social responsibility, Bank Asia has provided higher studies scholarship to 19 insolvent meritorious students of Lohagara Upazila in Chittagong district on Saturday (12 March, 2016).
Mr. Mohammed Roshangir, Deputy Managing Director & Zonal Head of the Bank handed over the scholarship money to the students at a function held at the Lohagara Upozila Auditorium. 
Mr. Mohammad Fijnur Rahman, UNO of Lohagara Upozila and Mr. Md. Shahabullah, Executive Vice President & Head of Agrabad Branch, were, among othe...
Mr. Mohammad Fijnur Rahman, UNO of Lohagara Upozila and Mr. Md. Shahabullah, Executive Vice President & Head of Agrabad Branch, were, among othe...
CEMEX operation divestment in BD, Thai
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) (NYSE: CX) announced today that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its operations in Bangladesh and Thailand to SIAM CITY CEMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED for approximately U.S.$53 million.
The proceeds obtained from this transaction will be used mainly for debt reduction and for general corporate purposes.
The closing of this agreement is subject to the satisfaction of standard conditions for this type 
of transactions. We currently expect to finalize this divestiture during the...
of transactions. We currently expect to finalize this divestiture during the...
Malware suspected in BB heist: officials
Investigators suspect unknown hackers installed malware in the Bangladesh central bank’s computer systems and watched, probably for weeks, for how to go about withdrawing money from its U.S. account, two bank officials briefed on the matter said on Friday.
More than a month after hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and attempted to steal nearly $1 billion from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cyber security experts are trying to find out how the hackers got in.
FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics division is helping investigate the cyber heist, which netted
