Editorial

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :After months of withstanding speculative attacks on its national currency, the Thai central bank let it ‘float’ on 2 July 1997, allowing...

President Trump be magnanimous :At the very moment when Donald Trump became the President of the United States, things started to happen in a very...

A NEWS report in The New Nation on Friday said Chittagong is going under the sea bringing to the fore how the port city is...

RECENT media reports said that high cost non-concessional loans and suppliers’ credit under which procurement remains tied to a single source at manifold interests would...

THE inflow of remittance in fiscal 2016-17 has been the lowest in six years to show a dark cloud slowly gathering on the country’s economy....

THE world never seemed as bitterly divided as during the pre- hours leading to the G-20 summit to be held in Germany’s Hamburg today. From...

Empty football stadium A friend of me said: Why does the football stadium in Bangladesh remain empty? I said:: There are three reasons. First one...

Fraser Cameron. :Traditionally G20 summits are meticulously prepared in advance by a group of senior officials known as Sherpas. The final communique is often drafted...

Juan Yañez :There’s widespread consensus that illicit tobacco products damage public health and thwart efforts to collect tax excise.Indeed, a recent European Commission report suggests...

Nafis Alam and Graham Kendall :The year is 2030. You’re in a business school lecture hall, where just a handful of students are attending a...

Confederations Cup may be laid to rest  World Champions and World No. 2 Germany annexed the title of the ninth edition of the Confederations Cup...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :World hunger has increased, reversing years of progress, said a UN specialised agency.During its biennial conference held in Rome, Italy from 3-8 July,...