Sustainable finance key to health equity
The world faces an alarming shortfall of funding needed to transform global health. If the world is to end preventable child, adolescent and maternal deaths, we need new forms of development finance to close a $33.3 billion annual funding gap.
A new financing platform announced this week at the Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia aims to do just that. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) is a country-driven financing partnership to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths by 2030.
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Japan’s security bills to break regional order: Experts
Bangladeshi experts has said that Japan’s security bills will bring new complications into global and regional politics as the country seeks to play an aggressive role to counter the existing regional order.
Their comments came after Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rammed through the controversial security bills that will expand the role of the country’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the all-powerful lower house of the nation’s Diet amid strong public opposition.
The bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...
The bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...
Eid ul-Fitr tomorrow
Eid ul-Fitr, the biggest festival of the Muslim community of Bangladesh will be observed tomorrow. Muslims across country thus observed the last Friday prayers of the month of Ramadan.
Despite the rain, malls were packed — men, women and children, all were finishing last-minute shopping.
Tailors’ machines still sew new clothes frenetically in order to deliver them by Friday night.
A tailor master in a mall in capital Dhaka, Abdul Halim, says: “Most of the pressure we face is in the last week of Ramadan and especially the last da...
A tailor master in a mall in capital Dhaka, Abdul Halim, says: “Most of the pressure we face is in the last week of Ramadan and especially the last da...
Malaysia mulling sourcing maids from Bangladesh
There appears to be no end to the problems surrounding the shortage of foreign maids in Malaysia. Currently, there are some 150,000 foreign domestic helpers working legally in this country, most of them Indonesians and Filipinas.
With the two source nations – Indonesia and the Philippines – having declared their intentions to cease supplying maids to Malaysia, it is high time the government weaned itself off its dependence on those two countries.
With Malaysians generally shunning employment in the domestic help sector, the g...
With Malaysians generally shunning employment in the domestic help sector, the g...
Muhith praises BHBFC
Presided over by Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith, a meeting on refinancing of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) was held at Bank and Financial Institution Auditorium in the city recently.
Among others, Chairman to the Board of Directors Sheikh Aminuddin Ahmed, Managing Director Dr. Md. Nurul Alam Talukder, Director Md. Jalal Uddin and Bhobesh Chandra Podder, Addition Secretary of Finance Ministry Jalal Ahmed and Additional Secretary of Bank and Financial Institution Gokul Chand Dash & Md. Fazlul Haque were presen...
Among others, Chairman to the Board of Directors Sheikh Aminuddin Ahmed, Managing Director Dr. Md. Nurul Alam Talukder, Director Md. Jalal Uddin and Bhobesh Chandra Podder, Addition Secretary of Finance Ministry Jalal Ahmed and Additional Secretary of Bank and Financial Institution Gokul Chand Dash & Md. Fazlul Haque were presen...
Lafarge merges with Holcim
LafargeHolcim yesterday (July 15, 2015) officially launched the new Group around the world and announced key elements of its ambitions for the future. Following the successful completion of the merger between Lafarge and Holcim and the listing of the new LafargeHolcim shares in Zurich and Paris, the new Group will now work towards creating the highest performing company in the building materials industry.
LafargeHolcim CEO Eric Olsen says: “Now as LafargeHolcim, we will step into 
the next phase of our transformation to become the leader in eve...
the next phase of our transformation to become the leader in eve...
