International promoters are rallying hundreds of Chinese companies under one roof in Beijing to motivate them to choose Bangladesh as a highly potential investment destination.
UK-based financial-publication Euromoney will organise the daylong China-Bangladesh Investment Forum on August 21.
Local private commercial bank City Bank and global financial giant Standard Chartered will be the lead sponsors, sources said.
The [...]

A national project aimed at combating the financing of terrorism and tracking the movement of terrorists will be launched today (Tuesday) with the support of World Customs Organisation (WCO).
Home, commerce and civil aviation ministries and the customs authorities under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) will jointly implement the project with technical support from the [...]

The authorities of Chittagong Tax Zone-4 have bought a boat for its officials to commute through waist-deep water on streets during rains and tide, reports bdnews24.com.
The people, coming to the office at Road No. 1 in the Chittagong Development Area (CDA) near the main road of Agrabad to pay taxes, are also taking the boat [...]

The government officials and researchers are less aware than non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private stakeholders of the pledges Bangladesh has made to the United Nations regarding reduction of carbon emission, according to a study.
Around 70 per cent of the government officials are informed about the government's commitment, which is the lowest among the South Asian [...]

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina asked those involved in the country's film industry on Monday not to exert any influence on the process to select nominees for the National Film Award, report agencies.
The Premier said this while speaking at a distribution ceremony of the 40th National Film Award-2015 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) [...]

The telecom regulator will not hold price auctions with companies seeking to provide mobile number portability or MNP services, but will handpick a participant through a ‘beauty contest’.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission issued a notice seeking applications on Monday, after an amended MNP guideline was approved by the prime minister and the finance ministry, said [...]

The Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) has urged the government to refrain from making any law that is contrary to the freedom of expression and freedom of press.
It also called upon the government to abolish the 'controversial' section 57 of Information and Communications Technology Act and withdraw all the cases filed against journalists under [...]

No bank in Bangladesh is ready to recover from a sudden data centre collapse due to natural calamities while most not even capable of turning around instantly from a major digital shutdown, a survey finds.  
The stunning revelation was made Sunday at a workshop on cyber-threat readiness of banks, based on a recent industry-wide study [...]

An acute skill gap haunts Bangladesh's labour market and the situation may worsen further unless innovative supply-side approaches can be pursued, an official study reveals.  
"The supply institutions are weak — both in the public and private sector-which suggests acute labour market failures," BIDS director-general KAS Murshid said while presenting findings of the study on [...]

CHITTAGONG, Jul 23: Lighter vessel workers were scheduled to start their indefinite strike from Sunday midnight, amid heavy congestion of cargoes at the seaport here.
Two associations of the workers-Nou Paribahan Shramik Federation and Nou Shramik Union-took the decision about enforcing the strike at their recent meeting to press home their 21-point charter of demand.
The workers [...]