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Boeing Board Accused in Lawsuit of Lax Oversight During 737 MAX Crisis
[ Source: The Wall Street Journal] Boeing Co. BA +7.23% ’s board is accused of failing to properly oversee management’s responses to two fatal 737 MAX crashes and the plane’s safety problems in a shareholders’ lawsuit that cites internal company...
28Sep
Opportunities for PPP Legal Frameworks Post-COVID-19
[Source: World Bank Group] While recognizing that many best practice examples for PPP legal frameworks exist on a national level or through international initiatives, there remains a gap in terms of practical guidance on critical components of PPP legal frameworks and how...
14Sep
New U.N. regulation on vehicles’ cybersecurity systems
The automotive sector is undergoing a profound transformation with the digitalization of in-car systems that are necessary to deliver vehicle automation, connectivity and shared mobility. Today, cars contain up to 150 electronic control units and about 100 million lines of software code...
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...
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
StanChart rolls out first blockchain remittance service
Standard Chartered Bangladesh yesterday rolled out a blockchain-powered remittance service for Bangladeshis working in Malaysia to allow them to send money home on a real-time basis, without any hassle and at lower costs. The bank has teamed up with Ant Group, one of the world's leading...
06Sep
Bangladesh under Japan’s subsidy scheme
Japan last week included Bangladesh in the subsidy scheme in the matters of relocating its firms from China. Under the subsidy scheme, Japan government is providing financial assistance to the companies, shifting their plants from China to other suitable locations. The Japanese subsidy programme was initially...
03Sep