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The rate of online sales through different e-commerce platforms accounts for a very limited portion of the total retail sales in Bangladesh, according to a World Bank (WB) study.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has expected that the bank interest rate for manufacturing sector will come down to single digit from January 1 for accelerating the country’s industrialisation and employment generation.

Despite sluggish merchandise exports from Bangladesh in the outgoing year 2019, a United Nations (UN) body forecasts positive annual export growth for the country.

The local currency appreciated by two paisa against US dollar on Wednesday after nearly three years in the inter-bank foreign exchange (forex) market.

Sprawled across a spent volcano on the remote edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, the Mount Weld mine seems a world away from the US-China trade war.

Japanese firm TOA Corporation has finally won the contract for developing land and other related works for the construction of an exclusive economic zone for Japanese investors in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj, reports UNB.

The world’s biggest smartphone and chipmaker Samsung Electronics issued a rare apology Wednesday after its chairman was jailed for sabotaging union activities.

Jordan has said that the European Parliament approved with a vast majority to grant Jordan a soft loan of 500 million euros (557 million US dollars) with a low-interest rate.

The country’s ready-made garment (RMG) export to major non-traditional markets witnessed a negative growth of 6.61 per cent during the first five months of current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, according to data.

  Shares in the world’s second-biggest apparel group were up 2% at 1000 GMT, outperforming the wider market in Stockholm.