Our workers abroad should be looked after and not neglected
A NATIONAL DAILY has reported that the government pays no attention to the country’s migrant workers who toil abroad to boost the economy without getting...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
Undiplomatic moveIran suffered a diplomatic setback in the first week of the current month when some rowdy elements set the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran...
Anti-dumping transparency is clearly needed
Christian Ewert :On page 19 of the strategy, there is one promise with which I am particularly satisfied. I say ‘particularly’ because it concerns an...
The West is losing the battle
John Loyd.:A little over a quarter of a century ago, Europe celebrated the healing of the schism that Communism enforced on it since World War...
Principles and practice in measuring global poverty
World Bank featured story :In 2015, the World Bank updated the nominal poverty line from $1.25 to $1.90 per day, but the incidence of global...
Police are feeling as rulers and not law enforcers
THE gruesome murder of five members of a family that include men and women along with two teenage in their family bedrooms in Narayanganj on...
Time for merger of weak banks with strong ones
EXPERTS’ recommendations at a seminar on Banking sector in Bangladesh and its reform and governance on Saturday in the city calling for merger of weak...
Using starvation is war crime
THE United Nations warned Syria’s warring parties on Thursday that starvation sieges were a war crime as it pushed for an easing of the dire...
Ship-breaking yards or death traps
AT least 60 workers were killed and 125 injured in the country’s ship-breaking yard accidents in the last five and a half years. As reported...
Readers’ Forum
Bangabandhu Cup FootballRevenue earning is one of the major targets of the organizers from any international sports event like the Bangabandhu Cup Football Tournament underway...
China’s multipronged green development target
Sara Hsu :At a recent Central Economic Work Conference, China underscored the aim of promoting green development as one of its economic targets. “Green development”...
Of philanthrocapitalism
James Surowiecki :When Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, announced that he would be donating ninety-nine per cent of his Facebook stock to a new...