14Sep
14Sep
Hydrogen Energy Sources of the Future-WLG
[Source: WLG] The energy demand of our globalized world is constantly expanding, not least due to increasing mobility, data processing and industrial production. Climate change poses a major challenge. Most of the fuels used for the mobility of the world population, in an industrial context...
14Sep
Govt fixes wages for leather sector
The government has fixed Tk 7,100 as minimum monthly wages for the workers of the country's leather goods and footwear sector. The ministry of labour and employment issued a gazette notification in this regard on September 08, nearly a year after the wage board was...
14Sep
Non-EPZ firms can pay foreign staffers in dollars
[source: The Business Standard] The government is going to allow firms outside of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) to pay their foreign employees in dollars. This has been a long-standing demand of companies and would make the revenue board better able to tax the foreigners. The...
13Sep
Only four directors of three listed companies complied with rules regarding minimum 2-per cent shareholding
[Source: The New Age] Only four directors of three listed companies complied with rules regarding minimum 2-per cent shareholding by each director of a listed company though the Bangladesh Securities of Exchange Commission on July 2 gave 61 non-compliant directors of 22 companies 45 days...
13Sep
Bangladesh is set to enter the era of bilateral duty-free trade agreements
[source: Business standard] Bangladesh is set to enter the era of bilateral duty-free trade agreements this month by signing a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with its South Asian neighbour Bhutan. Dhaka is also looking to sign free trade agreements (FTA) with Japan, Indonesia and Nepal later...
12Sep
South Asian Regional Centre of the GCA office in Dhaka was launched
During July last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted the Global Commission on Adaptation meeting in Dhaka attended by the co-chairs of the Commission, former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and Kristalina Georgiva, head of the International Monetary Fund. During the bilateral...
12Sep
The labour department has prepared an implementation guideline for the social safety net programme
Source: The Daily Star [Source; The Daily Star] A ray of hope has emerged for the laid-off, disabled and insolvent workers of export-oriented garment, leather and footwear manufacturing factories as the government has initiated a scheme to extend financial support to them. The government would pay Tk...
12Sep
Facebook launched its third-party fact-checking programme in Bangladesh
Facebook, the world's largest social media platform with around 2.4 billion users, has assured the government that it will comply with Bangladesh's tax and value added tax (VAT) laws while operating in the country. A team of officials representing Facebook pledged to conduct monthly meetings with...
12Sep