| Monday, April 26, 2010 Knitwear exporters yesterday expressed concern that they will lose competitiveness on the international markets for an unusual price hike of yarn. 
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| Monday, April 26, 2010 Bangladesh has built a deserving case for consideration of duty-free access for its products to the US market. 
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| Monday, April 26, 2010 About 3,000 garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Kanchpur of Narayanganj for two hours Monday morning demanding increase in their wages. 
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| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will set up a warehouse in Spain to ease its business operations in the European market. 
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| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Exports show signs of recovery as the single month shipments grew 8 percent in February over the same period a year ago. 
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| Sunday, April 18, 2010 Alliance Holdings Limited, a diversified holding company with a dynamic investment portfolio, is set to go public using the book building method, a modern pricing mechanism for initial public offering (IPO). 
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| Sunday, April 18, 2010 The government should take measures to improve the country's image further and utilise Bangladeshi diaspora to attract more foreign direct investment, an analyst has suggested. 
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| Sunday, April 18, 2010 A Bangladeshi delegation yesterday left for Washington to lobby for passage of a bill that will provide duty-free access for Bangladesh apparels to the US market. 
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| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Spinning mill owners yesterday urged the government not to allow yarn import through Benapole land port to rein in smuggling and safeguard the domestic investment in primary textile sector. 
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| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 A matchmaking event that was attended yesterday by local entrepreneurs and a group of the visiting Danish businesspeople, specialised in renewable energy, opened up a scope of investments in energy-starved Bangladesh. 
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| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 The India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) yesterday agreed to speed up efforts to increase bilateral trade and investment between the two countries. 
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| Thursday, April 8, 2010 Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith has assured readymade garment exporters of implementation of the government's Tk 1,000 crore second stimulus package in a month. 
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| Thursday, April 1, 2010 Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday differed with the government announcement about the payment of loan and interest by the sick apparel industries. 
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| Thursday, April 1, 2010 Canadian T-shirt giant Gildan Activewear Inc yesterday wrapped up the acquisition of Shahriyar Fabric Industries Ltd, choosing Bangladesh as a base for manufacturing in Asia. 
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| Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Deaths at workplaces continue every year because of the government's failure to go by the existing safety laws, or bring culpable factory owners to book. 
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| Wednesday, March 31, 2010 US Congressman Jim McDermott assured Bangladesh of extending his all-out assistance in passing the New Partnership for Trade Development Act at the US House of Representatives. 
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| Sunday, March 28, 2010 US Congressman Jim McDermott yesterday assured Bangladesh that a crucial bill meant to ensure duty-free access for the least developed countries to the US market would be passed in August. 
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| Monday, March 22, 2010 Vehicular movements on the busy city road from Nabisco crossing to Satrasta crossing came to a halt for one and a half hours on Monday as readymade garments workers blocked the road to realise their demands. 
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| Monday, March 22, 2010 The process of outsourcing production by Western companies is all about finding cheap labour to cut costs. But in Bangladesh, some retail groups are finding the wages too low for comfort. 
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| Sunday, March 14, 2010 The profitability of Bangladesh's readymade garments (RMG) is now hit hard by the persistent pressure from international buyers to lower the item's price, say industry insiders. 
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| Sunday, March 14, 2010 The garment factories in Ashulia, around 50, which remained closed on Friday following a series of clashes between police and garment workers, resumed production yesterday amid deployment of police. 
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Apparel export satisfactory but fear remains over energy crisis 
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Textile and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui said yesterday there is a huge potential for the country's readymade garments and textile sectors as China is shifting focus to hi-tech from RMG and textile. 
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| Tuesday, December 22, 2009 The Bangladesh government will form wage commission for regular industrial workers of all sectors within 'the shortest possible time' and amend the existing labour law, said Labour and Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. 
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