A Canadian citizen with business ties in Bangladesh was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the bribery probe of Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin’s failed bid for a $3-billion bridge project in Bangladesh. Zulfiquar Ali Bhuiyan, a Canadian and Bangladeshi citizen, was charged by the RCMP under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act in September. […]

DHAKA, Nov. 26 (BRAC Press Release) — BRAC receives prize in global $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award to replicate programme in Africa – BRAC recognised for its comprehensive mother, infant and child health package – The Award is the first initiative delivered as part of ambitious partnership between GSK and Save the Children that aims […]

DHAKA, Nov. 25 (nsnewswire) — Bangladesh’s July-September trade deficit squeezed by about 33 percent year on year to over 1 billion U.S. dollars. A Bangladesh Bank (BB) official told nsnewswire that the country’s import payment was 8,804 million U.S. dollars, down 9.37 percent, in July-September period of the current fiscal year 2013-14 while earnings from […]

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (nsnewswire) — Bangladesh’s July-October export income surged about 17 percent year on year to about 10 billion U.S. dollars. “Export income in the first four months of the current 2013-14 fiscal year (July 2013-June 2014) reached 9,747.17 million U.S. dollars,” said an Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official who preferred to be unnamed. […]

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (nsnewswire) — More than 50 people including three firemen and cops were injured as thousands of Bangladesh garment workers Sunday morning fought pitched battles with law enforcers in Savar on the outskirts capital Dhaka. Spurred by rumors that a female worker had been tortured by the firemen, according to the eyewitnesses, thousands […]