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PM invited to join China-South Asia Expo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was invited on Sunday to visit the China-South Asia Expo to be held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, in June this year. Li Jiheng, Yunnan Provincial Governor who is currently on a three-day visit to Bangladesh, handed over an official invitation letter to Hasina during a meeting in her office, her spokeswoman Mahbubul Hoque Shakil said. sheikh-hasina_25Hasina accepted the invitation, saying that she will try her best to be present at the exposition, reports Xinhua. She ...

Injecting buoyancy in poultry industry

Bangladesh has developed a model of community group formation and skill development training regarding improved poultry husbandry practices. Having micro-credit, it aims at helping the rural poor to improve their livelihood, income generation and empowerment. poultryUnder the Companies Act, 1994, there has been a provision to carry business like layer farm, pullet raising farm, broiler farm and parent stock farm, establishment of poultry hatchery, egg processing and broiler processing. Evidently the commercial poultry industry has grown with ...

US retailers’ donation to Bangladesh fund ‘paltry’

Walmart has been criticised for offering a paltry amount to victims of the RanaPlaza factory collapse in Bangladesh after joining other US-owned retailers including Asda, Gap and The Children’s Place to donate $2.2m (£1.32m) to a compensation fund. Of 28 retailers linked to the building in Dhaka, where more than 1,100 people died and at least a further 1,000 were injured nearly a year ago, just 16 have been confirmed as donors to a formal compensation fund co-ordinated by the UN agency the International Labour Organisation (ILO). So far there is just $7m in the pot, well short of its $40m target.

WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free

 The World Health Organisation (WHO) officially certified 11 Asian countries including Bangladesh free of polio Thursday (March 27th), a milestone lauded as a "momentous victory", AFP reported. The countries certified were India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, South Korea, Indonesia, Maldives, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and East Timor. polio The region was certified by a panel of experts after the countries went three years without reporting a new case. The WHO said the certification means 80% of the world'...

Oman-Bangladesh joint development fund likely

The bilateral relations between Oman and Bangladesh are set to touch new heights, said Sheikh Sekander Ali, Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the Sultanate. Speaking on the occasion of his country’s 43rd independence anniversary here yesterday, Ali said: “Following a Royal Decree in September 2012 for the establishment of a full-fledged embassy of the Sultanate in Bangladesh, Oman’s Embassy was relocated to new independent premises in 2013.”

Moreover, early this month a four-member delegation of senior Omani officials from the Ministry of Manpower visited Bangladesh to exchange views about welfare of the Bangladeshi workers living in the Sulta...

DSE takes FlexTrade, NASDAQ solution

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will engage with NASDAQ OMX and FlexTrade Systems to develop a revolutionary trading terminal. The move comes as Asian economies migrate their trading ecosystems to accommodate the growing needs of institutional and foreign investors. The DSE chose NASDAQ OMX and FlexTrade after a rigorous review of several technology solutions over a 6 month period. In South Asia, the DSE has been at the forefront of automated systems since the pre-millennial period. The exchange installed its first fully automated trading system in August 1998. dse
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