Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has recently launched ‘HSBC My Calendar App’ to celebrate its 25-year journey in Bangladesh.

Some 92 Bangladeshi workers left Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for South Korea yesterday through chartered flights operated by a Korean air company as the government of the East Asian nation resumed receiving foreign workers.

Exim Bank has recently witnessed the promotion of two of its additional deputy managing directors to the posts of deputy managing directors.

Garment manufacturers are confident about supplying garment products worth $8 billion a month to international buyers after Bangladesh consolidated its place in the global supply chain by remaining open for businesses even during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dhaka stocks finished higher yesterday compared to the preceding day as traders hoped for the index to better perform in the upcoming days.

South Korean, Norwegian, and French companies will build two new solar power plants in Bangladesh from which the government will be able to purchase electricity at a slightly low cost.

Medicines worth $105.50 million were exported in the July-December period, up from $86.33 million in the same period a year ago, data from the Export Promotion Bureau showed.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to outsource from the private sector maintenance services for electronic fiscal devices (EFD).

Bangladesh’s listed insurers’ life funds, or portfolios into which policyholder’s life assurance premiums are paid and claims are paid out of, have remained nearly the same in amount since 2015.

Some 92 Bangladeshi workers left Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Korea today through chartered flights operated by a Korean air company as the government of the East Asian nation resumed receiving foreign workers.

Bangladesh is gradually getting ready to cater garment work orders worth up to $8 billion a month as the local apparel manufacturers are receiving more work orders from the international retailers and brands, a top leader of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) said today.

Consumers will have to pay higher to buy soybean and palm oil from Saturday as refiners decided to increase prices by up to Tk 8 per litre on the ground of increasing import costs.

Two sugar mills, one in Thakurgaon and the other in Joypurhat, are set to produce a lower amount of sugar this year compared to last season as they have cut the volume of sugarcanes to be crushed, officials said.

Many “shadow forces” are working from behind the scenes delaying the purchase of tablets that would be used in conducting the country’s population census, said Planning Minister MA Mannan.

Dhaka stocks went up yesterday as investors continued pouring in their funds, putting their bet on hopes that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 would not be as threatening as many had previously thought. 

The estimated expenditure for the under-construction Mirsarai economic zone has spiralled by about 74 per cent due to changes for further development works and increase in the number of industrial plots.

Two new state-of-the-art dual view X-ray machines have been installed at the export cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to exclusively screen perishable items, finally materialising a long time demand of exporters.

The spinning sector in Bangladesh witnessed a major jump in investment last year as entrepreneurs set up 26 new mills to meet rising demand despite uncertainty in the global apparel supply chain owing to the pandemic.

The Dhaka stocks dropped in the first session of today's trading as investors went for booking profits.

The government should take initiative to harness the potential of bilateral trade with Indonesia, said Md Jashim Uddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).