Grain stocks worldwide are expected to fall to their lowest level in 35 years in 2008, raising concerns that the economy will be hit by a double whammy of soaring grain and oil prices.The Korea Rural Economic Institute reported that...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (Reuters): A certification process was launched Thursday enabling palm oil producers meeting stringent environment standards to label their products as eco-friendly.Palm oil companies that meet the criteria set by an industry-led initiative, the Round Table on...
NEW YORK, Nov 24 (AFP): The dollar remained weighed down yesterday by concerns that the world's largest economy could lose momentum in future months leading to fresh interest rate cuts. The lingering worries propelled the euro to a new record...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Nov 24: The fate of dairy industry in the port city is at stake due to high price of fodder and other causes, sources said.Some 350 dairy farms in the city have already closed down as those were...
FE ReportApollo Hospitals Dhaka has recently signed a corporate deal with Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited to provide medical services and special corporate benefits to the latter's staff.Apollo Hospitals Dhaka Finance Director Shahjahan Majumder and Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited Assistant Chief...
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will set up 13 cattle markets in the city to help the people buy sacrificial animals on the occasion of holy the Eid-ul-Azha, reports BSS. Sources in the estate department of the DCC said the markets...
FE ReportDhaka International Exhibition Company (DIEC) will organise an 8-day trade fair from January 22, 2008 at the International Exhibition and Convention Centre in Bahrain. Interested Bangladeshi banks, life insurance companies, garment manufacturers, real estate companies, food and spices manufacturers,...
FE ReportBangladesh Indenting Agents Association (BIAA) President Obaidur Rahman urged all firms and companies involved in indenting business to unite themselves under the banner of BIAA.The BIAA president was addressing a meeting at a hotel in the port city recently...
Sarwar Zahan US dollar maintained its stable nerve against Bangladesh taka (BDT) in the inter-bank foreign exchange market last week with higher demand for the greenback, fund managers said. The exchange rate of the greenback mainly moved between Tk 68.60...
SINGAPORE, Nov 24 (Bloomberg): Asian stocks rose for the first time in seven days, trimming a regional index's worst weekly loss in three months. Singapore share prices closed 0.39 per cent higher in cautious trading amid continuing market uncertainty, dealers...
Most of the essentials, including rice, lentil and potato were sold at cheaper prices at BDR-run sales centres and markets in the city Friday compared to prices at ordinary city markets, reports BSS.According to a market report released by the...
Enayet RasulREHAB fair 2007 is drawing record crowds as always. Every year since this annual event was first launched by REHAB, it had been eagerly awaited by everybody keen to buy real estate. The ones who visited the fair in...
Mahfuza Moslehi After her first child was born, Jahanara Islam started taking oral contraceptive pills to prevent another pregnancy. She consulted a doctor after suffering nausea and fatigue. The doctor blamed the illness to the pills. She gained extra weight...
Syed Fattahul AlimScientists are increasingly perfecting their knowledge and skill about simulating and copying life. After cloning the sheep Dolly, copying humans has been but a matter of crossing the ethical barrier before going for full-fledged human cloning. Scientific feat...
Mahfuza Moslehi Ovi, a 5-year old child, panics if someone screams in front of him or the TV runs in high volume. He sometimes behaves in a way that many think he is a mental patient.Ovi's mother Sajeda does not...
It may have brought the world aspirin, rocket science, quantum physics and the diesel engine, but Germany's days of scientific glory are long gone and it is now hunting for a new generation of Einsteins. Decades of underfunding and a...
Neil Buckley Russia, say supporters of President Vladimir Putin, must find its own way to democracy. The country needed strong rule to recover from the chaos of its 1990s dash to the market. Its vastness, cultural diversity and complex history...
Lucy Kellaway EVERY unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. Every unhappy worker is unhappy in much the same way.The first, a dubious generalisation, made by the greatest of novelists, Leo Tolstoy. The second, a slightly less dubious one,...
Sami Mahroum In 1998, investigating the brain drain from Europe to the US for the European Commission, I found that the US was indeed attracting European scientists and engineers, but many more were coming from Asia and elsewhere. More worryingly,...
John KayAli Baba has always been associated with the 40 thieves. But Ali has decoupled from the robbers: a Google search for "Alibaba" will take you to a Chinese e-commerce platform. The company's recent initial public offering has made it...
Anthony BubaloAT the British military headquarters at Kandahar, there is a pretty mural of the Afghan countryside with the following quote beneath it: "It is better to let them do it themselves imperfectly, than do it yourself perfectly. It is...
Nagesh KumarAsia becoming the most dynamic economic region in the world, with China and India as its growth engines, Japan's recovery from a decade of recession and the emergence of the continent's middle class as consumers were among the striking...
Dan Issacs The Indian government is to hold talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, in Vienna on the controversial India-US civil nuclear deal. It is the next stage in the approval of the agreement which has run into...
As China's appetite for coal is booming, American investors and businesses are cashing in.American pension and mutual fund money is being invested in the Chinese coal industry.The biggest Chinese coal company is China Shenhua Energy Co. of Beijing, which produces...
When Flavia was 10, a teacher at her primary school told her she had no future in Japan. She had been in the country for a year and was struggling to get to grips with the language. She remembers the...
The findings of a recent study report by the World Bank (WB) about only about 32 per cent of the adult population in Bangladesh having access to financial services illustrate amply well the need for expanding the coverage thereof. This...
Amirul IslamCompetitiveness has always been the key to business operations and this competitiveness for Bangladesh, especially in the sphere of its cargoes related to its export trade, has come to mean largely the speed and efficiency with which cargoes can...
Md Azizur RahmanSOME pockets of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lamonirhat districts are known as Monga-hit areas. Without any exception, the Monga hits the working people of those areas, especially during the lean months. Mostly labourers, they have no regular source...
Dino MahtaniWITH the world's big oil companies locked out of Saudi Arabia and unlikely to invest in the near future in Iran or Iraq, many oilmen look at Africa as the most attractive oil frontier, especially given the nationalist fever...
There are now Bangladeshis in many parts of the world and they have good incomes and savings. Many of them are truly patriotic and although they live in foreign lands, they retain their love for, and attachment to, Bangladesh. They...
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