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US lists plethora of business, investment problems

America's trade office has listed a plethora of business and investment problems in Bangladesh, such as alleged graft and extortion in commercial dealings. In a latest report the USTR has also identified barriers in digital trade, violations of intellectual property protection and worker rights, including fire and building safety and...

Liquidating problem banks better than reorganising

Liquidating problem banks is better than reorganizing as many of those are weakened through embezzlement beyond redemption, said an expert who thinks mergers and acquisitions alone are no fit cure. Mergers won't solve the entrenched problems in Bangladesh's banking sector unless the government addresses the moral hazards and flaws in...

Hijacked ship: 23 sailors unlikely to be released before Eid

CHATTOGRAM, Mar 30 (UNB): The 23 Bangladeshi sailors, along with the ship MV Abdullah flying the national flag, have been held hostage for 19 days in the den of pirates in Somalia, Africa.While the families of the 23 sailors, the ship owner, the authorities concerned and the countrymen are worried...

Taking risks with the life of his little kid, a father carrying her over a road divider

Taking risks with the life of his little kid, a father carrying her over a road divider to her mother on the other side on the busy Mirpur Road in New Market area. The city saw a huge turnout of Eid shoppers on Saturday. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

WHO says 9,000 patients need emergency evacuation from Gaza

GENEVA, March 30 (AFP): Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head of the WHO said Saturday."With only 10 hospitals minimally functional across the whole of #Gaza, thousands of patients continue to...

Briefing 2024-03-31

Margin loans: The tale that has not been told General investors and the country's capital market repeatedly become victims of accumulated burden of margin loans disbursed to big investors. The recent rapid market erosion is the latest such event that befell them. Page 9Peru police team raids President homePeruvian authorities...