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The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is going to introduce a new index at the Dhaka Stock Exchange this year to attract Chinese investors to the secondary market of Bangladesh’s premier bourse. An SZSE-led Chinese consortium, made up of Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges, became the strategic partner of...

The Sinovac Biotech company of China has applied for the Phase 3 trial of their Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh. Md Abdul Mannan, the secretary of the Health Services Division under the Ministry of Health made this comment at a meeting on the coronavirus vaccine at the ministry...

Karnaphuli Tunnel Project has achieved a "breakthrough" with the completion of the left line despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The project in Chattogram is constructed by China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC). Featured with two-tube four-lane of the shield section, the Karnaphuli Tunnel connects Chattogram...

Bangladesh has initiated groundwork to attract investments from large foreign firms which are planning to move out of China to reduce single-country dependence after Covid-19 pandemic. Special economic zones with ready-to-use land, longer tax holiday and availability of all services under one roof are among the offers...

Southeast Asian nations will likely benefit from China’s economic rebound as the country commands a “lion’s share” of regional exports, one economist said this week. China on Thursday said its gross domestic product grew by 3.2% for the second quarter of 2020, compared to the same period a year ago. The country’s GDP shrank...

Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington’s three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been “treated unjustly”. The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the...

In this file photo taken on 9 November 2017, US president Donald Trump (L) shakes hand with China`s Xi Jinping in Beijing. Photo: AFPChina's Xi Jinping landed in Osaka Thursday ahead of what promises to be a stormy G20 meeting over trade, as US president Donald Trump...

The under-construction Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Purbachal satellite town will be launched in December next year (2020). Ministry of Commerce informed this at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Commerce at Parliament Bhaban in the capital yesterday. The meeting was also...

Beijing will lower import tariffs on more than 850 products including frozen pork from next month, the finance ministry said on Monday, as authorities battle a severe shortage of the meat staple. China’s pig industry has been hammered by African swine fever, which has led to the...

Asia markets were mostly down Monday, with investors cautious ahead of US-China talks in Shanghai this week and amid more civil unrest in Hong Kong. Two-day discussions begin on Tuesday with a Washington delegation led by White House Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. But analysts are pessimistic about a resolution to the...