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Business
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Keeping Prices within Commoners' Reach
Business leaders for lifting import duty on essentials
Business leaders at a meeting yesterday urged the government to withdraw import and supplementary duties on some essential commodities to keep prices within the purchasing power of common people.
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Metal rod price surges Tk 2,500 a tonne
REHAB concerned
The price of metal rod, a key material for construction, has increased during the last month with producers' warning they may go even higher due to the cost of raw materials.
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Thailand keen to invest more
Considering a congenial investment climate in Bangladesh, Thailand has expressed its keenness for more investment here.
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IT Sector
Bangladesh a potential outsourcing destination
French businesses consider
French businesses are seriously considering Bangladesh as an outsourcing location for the IT sector, the annual general meeting of the France-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry was told yesterday.
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Cairn Energy drills $82m loss
British oil firm Cairn Energy said on Tuesday that it dived into the red in 2006 with a net loss of 82 million dollars after downgrading energy reserves estimates at its Sangu field in Bangladesh.
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SoftExpo2007 begins today
A five-day exposition of IT and IT-enabled services styled 'SoftExpo2007' begins today at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka.
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UN sanctions won't affect economy
Says Iran's central bank
Iran's central bank governor Ebrahim Sheibany Tuesday described fresh sanctions imposed by the United Nations as only "symbolic" and said they would not affect the country's economy.
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Effects of Asian crisis still linger
The effects of the traumatic 1997 Asian financial crisis continue to be felt in some of the countries hardest hit by it and corruption may be a factor holding back investment in some areas, the AsianDevelo-pment
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New executive body of pharma industries assoc
SM Shafiuzzaman, managing director of Hudson Pharmac-euticals Ltd, and Nazmul Hassan, chief executive officer of Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, have been reelected president and secretary general of Bangladesh
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Mutual Trust Bank's new DMD
Quamrul Islam Chowdhury has recently been made deputy managing director of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd, says a press release.
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Japan, Chile sign FTA
Japan on Tuesday signed a free trade deal with Chile, its first such pact with a South American nation that will eliminate tariffs on more than 90 percent of trade.
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Business travel costs rebound
Business travel costs increased in 2006 after several years of flat or declining prices, a survey by American Express showed Monday.
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