Thursday | January 01, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP, Kuala Lumpur :Malaysia Airlines will slash thousands of staff, trim routes, replace its CEO and could see future stake sales to outside investors under plans announced Friday to save it from bankruptcy after...
Xinhua, Havana :Cuba’s central bank has adopted measures against money laundering after the passage of a new foreign investment law aimed at bringing more capital from abroad, local media said Thursday.“Cuba’s opening to foreign...
AFP, Shanghai:China’s Wanda Group, headed by the country’s richest man, is joining Internet giants Baidu and Tencent to set up an e-commerce platform costing more than $800 million, it said Friday.The three Chinese companies...
AFP, Washington :The International Monetary Fund Thursday urged the US to boost incomes for the poor, including raising the minimum wage, saying that would help sustain the country’s rebound from the Great Recession.Senior IMF...
Xinhua, Nairobi :A senior official from the World Bank’s political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm is due in Nairobi Thursday to seek ways of helping Kenya mobilize capital to finance various energy projects.A...
AFP, Seoul :South Korea’s Samsung and LG unveiled new smartwatches Thursday with upgraded functions and design as they step up their drive to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices.The “Gear S” is...
Xinhua, London :New figures from Swift RMB tracker show that RMB payments through London have increased by 123 percent in just one year.The latest statistics reflect the flowerings of the policy of the Chinese...
Xinhua, Yangon :Myanmar’s Yangon region government is drawing plans for the expansion of Yangon city through private investment of developers and the public, said a statement of the regional government published Friday.Tenders will be...
Xinhua, Brussels :The European Commission Thursday announced emergency market support measures for milk sector which are affected by the Russian ban, according to an official statement.The Commission will open Private Storage Aid for butter,...
Xinhua, Washington :US banks’ net income rose 5.3 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period of last year as banks spent less money in loan-loss provisions and noninterest expenses, the Federal...
Unemployment in crisis-hit France struck a new high in July, official statistics published Wednesday showed, in another blow for the deeply unpopular President Francois Hollande.The labour ministry said there were now 3.424 million people...
