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The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has accelerated its activities to keep imports normal during the coronavirus crisis.

Ziad Qassem’s 25 years as a tailor seemed worthless in the cruel economy of the blockaded Gaza Strip: Unemployed for eight months, piling up debt, he sat idle in his apartment, worried how he would provide for his wife and five children.

Experts in a recent webinar suggested for introducing digital solutions in country’s pharmaceutical sector to enhance productivity of the sector.

More than 100 businesses in Japan have gone bankrupt during the novel coronavirus pandemic as plummeting tourist numbers and the ‘stay home’ campaign have hammered revenues, a research institute said.

Perhaps Bangladesh has the highest number of people out of jobs thanks to the protracted shutdown that has taken away income opportunities for tens of thousands of people, particularly in the informal sector. Or, perhaps not.

The civil aviation and tourism ministry has decided to waive the storage charges on all imported goods waiting at the warehouse of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for delivery.

With about 1.1 million confirmed cases, nearly 65,000 of them fatal, the United States has the highest tolls of any country

Iraq’s oil revenues in April plummeted to under $1.5 billion, the oil ministry announced Friday, less than a fifth of hydrocarbon income earned in the same month last year.

Conducting health and safety audit in the last four days, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has so far found 144 factories in satisfactory level amid the concern of deadly COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Millions of small businesses, mainly clothing traders, are facing up to the uncertain times as they are missing key high-demand periods – the Eid-ul-Fitr after Pahela Baishakh festival – amid the coronavirus-driven lockdowns.