Volume 4 Number 110 Sat. September 13, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Literature Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives Business   LDCs under pressure to agree on S'pore issues Bangladesh and the other LDCs seemed heading towards swallowing the "poison pill" with the deliberations on the first two days of the WTO ministerial meet facing an overall pressure to agree on the Singapore   Trade ministers still search for headway at WTO talks WTO ministers on Thursday got down to the nitty-gritty in a bid to break a deadlock blocking progress toward a new global trade pact amid few signs of headway.   Telecom law amendment Conspiracy of piracy to people's privacy The government is planning to amend the present telecommunication law to "legally" overhear people's phone conversations and sneaking into their e-mails.   US catalogue show starts tomorrow in Sylhet The United States Embassy in Bangladesh will hold an "American Week" in Sylhet beginning tomorrow with a catalogue show of American products.   Global recovery may stumble without reforms: IIF The fragile global economic recovery could be "short-circuited" without bold steps by industrialized and developing countries, a global association of banks and finance firms said Thursday.   Malaysia's 2004 budget aims at economic competitiveness Malaysia unveiled a series of tax cuts and incentives to boost key industries in its 2004 budget Friday, along with sharp increases in "sin" taxes on alcohol and tobacco while imposing new excise duty   IMF urges Asia to curb huge foreign exchange surplus Emerging Asian economies have boosted foreign exchange reserves massively in 18 months, presenting a new menace to the global economy, the IMF warned Thursday.   India okays privatisation of two major airports India on Thursday approved a plan to privatise two of its biggest airports in the national capital New Delhi and financial centre Bombay in a bid to upgrade them to world standards.   BoJ leaves monetary policy unchanged The Bank of Japan voted Friday to leave its monetary policy unchanged following recent evidence of an economic upturn as the government upgraded its own outlook for a second successive month.     Advertisement