Knitwear exporters yesterday expressed concern that they will lose competitiveness on the international markets for an unusual price hike of yarn. Read More »

Bangladesh has built a deserving case for consideration of duty-free access for its products to the US market. Read More »

About 3,000 garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Kanchpur of Narayanganj for two hours Monday morning demanding increase in their wages. Read More »

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). Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »

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. Read More »