Diplomatic

Diplomatic Correspondent: The South Korean government plans to receive 10,000 Bangladeshi expatriate workers this year.Outgoing Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-keun made the disclosure while paying a farewell call to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban yesterday.While only around 1,500 Bangladeshi workers were dispatched to Korea under the Employment Permit System…

Diplomatic Correspondent: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday urged Oman to supply the remaining cargoes of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) as soon as possible in continuation with the previous agreement.Nasrul made the call when Oman envoy Abdul Ghaffar Al Bulushi paid a courtesy call on…

Diplomatic Correspondent: Bangladesh and Vietnam have agreed to explore possibilities of concluding a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in order to add further substance to the steadily increasing bilateral trade and economic relations between the two regional countries, particularly in context of the LDC graduation of Bangladesh.The issue was discussed…

Diplomatic Correspondent: A two-day meeting of the joint steering committee (JSC) and joint working committee (JWC) on Bangladesh – Nepal power and energy sector cooperation is set to start in Bangladesh today with a target to address the transmission bottleneck in regional electricity trade.The JWC meeting is scheduled for May…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday returned home from London after wrapping up her 15-day tri-nation visit to Japan, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK).A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:05 am.Earlier,…

Industry Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited Bhutan to build an economic zone in Bangladesh for mutual benefits of the two neighbouring countries.“We’re establishing economic zones in Bangladesh. You can build an economic zone in our country which will be known as Bhutan Economic Zone,” she said.The premier made…

Industry Desk: A total of 675 Bangladeshi nationals looking to leave crisis-hit Sudan have reached Port Sudan from Khartoum so far.“Those who are without passports have already been provided with travel permits,” State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said in a Facebook post on Thursday.“We’ll evacuate women, children…

Batan Biswas from EU: Bangladeshis are mainly choosing Italy and France to be recognized as refugees after illegal entry into the European Union. Bangladesh ranks seventh in the list of political asylum seekers in various European countries. This information has come out in the data of Eurostat, the statistical agency…

Zarif Mahmud: Dubai is the largest commercial city in the United Arab Emirates. The bustling city offers endless investment opportunities for business and entertainment. As a result, Dubai has now become the top choice in the second home list of foreigners.Bangladeshi entrepreneurs have invested around Tk 37,000 crore legally in…

Industry Desk: Dhaka and Tokyo yesterday signed eight instruments on the second day of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s four-day state visit to Japan at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.Those were signed on agriculture, metro rail, industrial upgrade, ship recycling, customs matters, intellectual properties, defence cooperation, ICT…