Historically, the path to wealth for nations has run through manufacturing. Manufacturing gives you a way to quickly move a lot of people from low-productivity farming to higher-productivity jobs without requiring that they pick up lots of new skills first. And the garment industry fits the bill admirably; it does not not require lots of expensive infrastructure or a skilled population that can supply and maintain fancy machines, and it does use lots of low-skilled labor. Once you get people through the factory gates, their higher productivity and earnings will support improvements in infrastructure, education and services, that can fuel further growth. Eventually, one hopes that your country will get too rich to support much garment manufacturing, because workers will be able to comman...
Nine people including three Bangladeshis were killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia early today.
Nazmul Islam, director general of foreign ministry’s West Asia region, confirmed the death of three Bangladeshis to The Daily Star.
At least 17 others were injured in the incident, he said. “Three of the dead were Bangladeshis while the others were Indians.”
The victims were identified as Wahed Ali, hailing from of Jamalpur, Masud Mia, from Kishorganj and Alam Chand Mia from Tangail.
Seven of the injured were also Bangladeshis, Moh...
About 1,000 Bangladeshi technical interns are set to receive trainings in Japan under an apprenticeship and entrepreneurship training programme as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries were signed on Wednesday.
Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and Executive Chairman of IM Japan Kyoei Yanagisawa signed the MoU at Probashi Kalyan Bhaban here on Wednesday.
Director General Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training Begum Shamsun Nahar and senior executive director of the ...
The Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar has received a written message from the President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid, pertaining to bilateral relations and ways of enhancing
them.
The message was received by the Assistant Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi when he met the ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar Sayyed Massoud Mahmoud Khandoukar yesterday.
-MENAFN - Gulf Times
It is a sigh of relief for Bangladesh, where oral cholera is an endemic disease, as a vaccine called Shanchol which is given as part of routine health services has been tagged safe and will protect children and adults from severe cholera.
The findings lend support to the use of the vaccine in routine mass vaccination programmes to help to control cholera in endemic countries.
The study shows that even with moderate vaccination coverage, cases of severe life-threatening cholera were reduced by nearly 40 pe...
Foreign ministers from major powers were set Thursday to turn the screws on Iran to finalise a historic nuclear deal on the eve of a deadline to present it to US lawmakers.
If the US Congress does not receive the text by early Friday morning Vienna time—midnight in Washington—it makes the approval process longer and potentially more problematic.
But despite this pressure, and almost two weeks of talks in the Austrian capital, it is unclear whether an accord aimed at ending a 13-year standoff can be sewn up at all, let alone in time, AFP reports.
