| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 The working committee of national taskforce on recession on Tuesday recommended the government for giving 5 percent cash incentive to the ready-made garment exporters and its backward integration only for new export destinations to revive the export growth. 
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 German company Cancun Food Produces Limited is going to establish a high tech food processing industry in the Adamjee Export Processing Zone.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 As feared by some quarters, the impact of global recession on Bangladeshi garment industry may not linger for long as the local manufacturers are now presenting diversified products resulting in fresh orders in recent weeks.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 A twenty-five member business delegation of Hong Kong recently visited Viyellatex Group, a garment manufacturing company of the country.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 Integration and coordination between productivity and compliance are needed to have a sustainable growth in the country's prime forex earning RMG sector, speakers told a seminar in Dhaka yesterday.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 Foreign buyers see Bangladesh as a lucrative destination for global apparel outsourcing as the country manufactures quality items at a cheap cost.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 Fresh unrest is again simmering in the readymade garments (RMG) sector. Three precious lives were lost and over a hundred wounded in the recent deadly violence in Tongi. An apparently disturbed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, categorically said that the government would not tolerate chaotic situation any more in the garment sector. The garment workers must get all types of facilities as they, with their low paid salaries, find it difficult to make both ends meet, she said.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 The 20th Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition will begin in the capital on Thursday presenting more value added local garments to the international importers.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 Ocean Containers Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Summit Alliance Port Ltd, has got approval from the Chittagong Stock Exchange to be listed directly with the bourse.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 Owners closed at least eight garment factories in Dhaka city and its adjacent areas in last three moths allegedly without maintaining the factory laws.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 The government, factory owners and workers at a meeting Sunday decided in principle to introduce trade unionism in the readymade garment sector to avert rerun of labour unrest.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 Maersk Bangladesh and APL Bangladesh, two major shipping lines, are facing a fresh problem to continue operating, as the customs authority has found that the companies did not submit information relating to their purchased shares from the local partners.
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| Saturday, October 31, 2009 Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised Thursday to boost investment by removing red tape blamed for slowing growth in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
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| Saturday, October 31, 2009 Connectivity in education is key for Bangladesh to step in to the digital era, says a top regional official of Cisco Systems, a leading global supplier of networking equipment and network management.
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| Saturday, October 31, 2009 An uneasy calm prevailed in industrial town of Tongi Saturday after pitched battles between agitated garment workers and police left an unspecified number of people dead or wounded and forced brief movement of traffic in nearby Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.
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| Monday, October 26, 2009 The 3rd two-day Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Capital Market Fair will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday next at the auditorium of Chittagong chapter of Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 Bangladesh Commerce Minister Faruk Khan yesterday directed the garment associations to submit the structural designs of their member-factories' outmoded buildings to renovate the jerry-built factory houses by December.
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 In late 2009 the business community and economists often remark that the level of investment in the economy is too low. The Minister of Finance has recently expressed such concerns. What they mean is that to create jobs for the young people entering the labour force, to raise the productivity of workers, and to make the economy grow faster there has to be much more investment than is now taking place. We examine in this article some of the evidence that it is low and review some of the reasons for this. Perhaps by understanding the reasons it really is possible to figure out how to increase investment.
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| Sunday, October 18, 2009 Garment workers from a human chain yesterday urged all concerned, including the government, to fix their minimum wage at Tk 5,000 per month.
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 The knitwear sector trade body chief in a press briefing yesterday pointed his finger at the absence of strong trade negotiations on the government's part, a setback to raising Bangladesh's capability to tap the $1.2 billion South African apparel market.
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Knitwear and woven garment exports, which account for over 80 percent of total shipments, slipped in the July-August period, dimming prospects for Bangladesh's overseas sales.
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| Friday, October 9, 2009 A Danish delegation is expected to visit Bangladesh on November 8-13 to introduce them to relevant local industries to explore the possibilities of setting up long-term joint ventures.
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| Friday, October 9, 2009 International buyers of apparel items now seek innovative designs from the local suppliers and manufacturers as the demand for the fashion design of Indian subcontinent is increasing in the West, industry insiders said.
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| Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Bangladesh government announced yesterday the export target for the current fiscal year at $17.6 billion, which is 13 percent higher than that of the previous year.
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