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People can soon get loans from banks by keeping their movable assets with banks as collateral, in a development that will expand the access to finance. The central bank has already drafted a law titled “The Secured Transaction (Movable Assets) Act”, which will soon be sent to the law ministry …

The Dhaka Stock Exchange’s bear run since February is nothing unusual, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday, going so far as to blame the media for playing up the downward trend. On January 24, the DSEX, the benchmark index of the DSE, hit a peak of 5,950 points and …

A Bangladeshi tea brand has gone global with successful business, expanding to the United States and the United Kingdom after several years’ of efforts. Teatulia, pronounced the same as the country’s northernmost region but with a twist in the spelling, is a brand of Kazi & Kazi Tea, a concern …

Manufacturers in China facing trade barriers are deploying an array of moves to try to keep foreign customers – giving discounts, tapping tax breaks, trimming workforces and, occasionally, shifting production overseas to skirt tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs from the China-United States trade war have been costly for many. Adding to the …

Some 100 Chinese workers suffering from a work-related disease have signed a petition demanding the release of three prominent activists in southern China amid a crackdown on labour activism. Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing, editors of a labour rights news site that reported on the workers’ cases, were arrested last …