FDI inflow in Bangladesh increased last year Bangladesh received foreign direct investment (FDI) of $1.13 billion last year, the highest ever investment from overseas, according to the World Investment Report (WIR), 2012 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).The amount is 24.42 per cent more than that in the previous year, the …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for joint efforts of all states to face the twin challenges of poverty and terrorism to secure global peace and harmony for future generations.Terming poverty a major “challenge of change” in the region, Hasina said she believes that poverty is the number one common enemy as it provides breeding …
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The government has decided to set up five economic zones in the country to drive industrialisation and enhance the living standards of rural people by creating jobs. The decision was taken at the first meeting of the governing board of Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA) at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday with Prime Minister Sheikh …
Bangladesh honours its foreign friends Expressing its deep debt of gratitude, the country yesterday honoured individuals and organisations from across the world for their wholehearted support to its liberation in 1971. President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred the awards on the nation’s foreign friends at a special ceremony at the Bangabandhu International …
The country’s domestic pharmaceutical market is now sized, in value terms, at US$ 1.136 billion. There has been a marked value-wise growth of the market — at the rate of 23.59 per cent — in 2011 over that of 2010, according to the data released Thursday by IMS Health Bangladesh. The IMS, a US-based organisation, …
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Dr ASM Amjad Hossain, a Bangladeshi physician, won the first Gates Vaccine Innovation Award provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a news release of the foundation said. The foundation on Wednesday announced the winner of the award in Bill Gates’ fourth annual letter, which provides his personal account of the foundation’s priorities for …
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NAY PAI TAW, Dec 6 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here today urged her southeastern neighbour Myanmar to take a fresh vow to prosper together with Bangladesh as an old friend and neighbour. “Closer cooperation will allow us to move rapidly towards achieving our common goals of prosperity of our peoples, our nations and our region,” she …
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The government yesterday awarded trophies to 45 successful businesspeople for their extraordinary performances in exports in fiscal 2009-10. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the trophies to the awardees at a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka.Of the winners, 16 received gold medals, 18 silver medals and 11 bronze medals for the year. The …
Bangladesh has done better than many other least developed countries (LDCs) in terms of overall development scenario, particularly in economic vulnerability category, according to LDC Report 2011 released yesterday by Unctad. Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) unveiled the report at its office on behalf of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad).However, with …
