Finance News: Latest Financial News, Finance News today in Bangladesh

Top Pentagon official in Kabul amid dialogue for peace

KABUL, Feb 11 (AP): The Pentagon's top official made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with US commanders and Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban.Pat Shanahan, the recently installed acting secretary of defense, said he has no orders to reduce the US troop...

Thai election panel disqualifies princess as PM candidate

BANGKOK, Feb 11 (Reuters): Thailand's election panel on Monday disqualified the sister of the king from running for prime minister, putting an end to a stunning, short-lived candidacy by echoing King Maha Vajiralongkorn's words that royalty should be "above politics".The Election Commission released the official list of parties' candidates for...

Hungary to exempt tax of women with four or more kids

BUDAPEST, Feb 11 (AP): Hungary's government is greatly increasing financial aid and subsidies for families with several children, the country's prime minister said on Sunday.The measures announced by Viktor Orban during his "state of the nation" speech are meant to encourage women to have more children and reverse Hungary's population...

US destroyers sail in disputed S China Sea

BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters): Two US warships sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Monday, a US official told Reuters, a move likely to anger Beijing at a time of tense relations between the world's two biggest economies.Beijing and Washington are locked in a trade...

Netanyahu vows to freeze funds of Palestine

JERUSALEM, Feb 11 (Xinhua): Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some of the money transferred by Israel to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will be frozen.Israel collects customs duties on goods exported to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip via Israeli ports and then transfers the...

Yemen food aid at risk of rotting, says UN

SANAA, Feb 11 (AFP): Food aid in a warehouse on the frontlines of the Yemen war is at risk of rotting, the UN said on Monday, leaving millions of Yemenis without access to life-saving sustenance.The Red Sea Mills silos, located in the western port city of Hodeida, are believed to...

Vietnam's foreign minister to visit N Korea ahead of summit

HANOI, Feb 11 (AFP): Vietnam's foreign minister will fly to North Korea on Tuesday for an official state visit, the ministry announced, ahead of a second planned summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Trump announced last week on Twitter that the communist state's capital...

Solving water pollution govt priority: Mahdi

BAGHDAD, Feb 11 (Xinhua): Prime Minister of Iraq Adel Abdul Mahdi on Sunday said that solving river water pollution issue is a priority for the new government, calling on exploiting rainfall water to increase reserves.Abdul Mahdi's comments came during a meeting with a ministerial committee for water pollution control, attended...

News in Brief (12-2-2019)

Fierce fighting for last IS foothold in SyriaBEIRUT, Feb 11: A Syrian war monitoring group and a Kurdish news agency say fierce fighting is underway between US-backed Syrian forces and Islamic State militants around the extremists' last foothold in eastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the push...