Bangladesh

The 4th Bangladesh-Japan Joint PPP platform meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday highlighting important projects presented by the Japanese side. Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan jointly organised the...

There is always a little girl somewhere in every corner of the world in a conservative family, who-- despite all the obstacles thrown from all around-- nurtures big dreams. While some may succeed, most of the dreams get lost within the alleys of marriage and family. But...

New investments have dropped across the world amid the pandemic, but when investments were diverted from China, Japan and Europe, Bangladesh fell behind its competitors to grab them. High interest rate, weak infrastructure, environment not conducive to business and no incentive for investors are...

Buoyed by a surge in interest in coffee farming that had a modest beginning in the Chattogram Hill Tracts back in the 1990s, Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial production of coffee beans. Coffee farming has spilled beyond the rolling hills into the vast swathes of...

Country's publishing industry is in dire straits due to the prolonged closure of educational institutions in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The closure has cut down the sales of publishing houses by over 70 per cent, the industry people have claimed.

Less than a quarter of Bangladesh’s farming community belongs to the medium and big farmers’category, whose average farm size is above 1.5 acres. However, a vast majority of farmers, 76% of them, are small and marginal, who either have no lands of their own or possess small...

Kasablanca, a hacker group, has targeted cyberattacks on at least six well-known Bangladeshi financial and government organisations, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (e-Gov CIRT), the state organisation responsible for securing the country’s cyberspace. The organisations are Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, bKash, BRAC...

Despite having a sharp rise in sales amid the pandemic, Bangladesh dropped 12 notches in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-Commerce Index 2020 due to infrastructure deficiency. Bangladesh ranked 115th, down from 103rd in 2019, as per the...

Some 93 per cent of Bangladeshi family-owned businesses are optimistic about seeing growth in 2022, which is higher than what those around the globe hope for, according to a survey by PwC Bangladesh. In the year, 86 per cent of global family firms expect...

Business confidence in Bangladesh improved in the last quarter of 2020 as the economy strived to recover from the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study. The Business Confidence Index (BCI) of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) went...