Maintenance of macroeconomic stability will be a major challenge this year, particularly after the successive natural disasters -- floods and cyclone. The extent of damage caused by such disasters is quite severe. The supply-shocks in areas of food and other...
Fred Halliday The issue of political reform in the Arab world has over recent months acquired a new importance for two quite different reasons: in the United States and Europe because of the newfound enthusiasm of the Bush administration for...
Matthew Brown and Aaron PanWhen central bankers in the Middle East say they have no plans to end their fixed exchange rates to the dollar, the currency market hears the opposite. Merrill Lynch & Co. predicts either the United Arab...
Sarah McGregor from Dares SalaamThe momentum towards regional integration in East Africa received encouragement from the U.S. this week, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson saying that it should boost economic growth in the five-member East Africa bloc."This is a...
KAMPALA, Nov 24 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today he hoped for agreement on a new world trade deal within weeks. Brown held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a summit of the...
BEIJING, Nov 24 (Reuters): China will proceed prudently with plans for a landmark scheme permitting mainland residents to invest directly in Hong Kong stocks for the first time, Premier Wen Jiabao said in remarks reported Today. Wen told visiting Hong...
HANOI, Nov 24 (AFP): Vietnam's trade deficit has surged past the 10 billion dollar mark so far this year, a 142-per cent rise over the same period last year, state media reported today quoting government estimates. High costs of imports...
KAMPALA, Nov 24 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today he hoped for agreement on a new world trade deal within weeks. Brown held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a summit of the...
BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (Reuters): The European Commission and four southern African countries agreed a new trade deal yesterday, opening the way for what Brussels hopes will be a series of agreements with scores of former European colonies. In a breakthrough...
NEW YORK, Nov 24 (AFP): World oil prices pushed closer toward 100 dollars a barrel today as traders worried about tight supplies and geopolitical jitters in key oil producing states. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery,...
MUMBAI, Nov 23 (Bloomberg): Indian sugar makers, battered by falling prices of the sweetener, face more losses after the nation's biggest producing state forced them to buy cane at above market prices. Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd., the nation's second-largest producer,...
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,...
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