Bangladesh foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has urged the western buyers to pay little bit more for Bangladeshi products. The minister said this while speaking to a visiting Parliamentary delegation of Germany. The delegation ...
The governments of India and Thailand have signed the double taxation avoidance treaty (DTAT). The treaty was among a number of important agreements signed by India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Thai deputy prime ...
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China's diplomacy in 2015 will focus on making all around progress in the "Belt and Road" initiatives, said Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the ongoing national legislative session on Sunday.[Special coverage] China will ...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) would like to serve as the gateway to better ties between China and the countries in the Gulf region and the Arab world, a senior UAE official said on Saturday. UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid ...
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Japan has agreed in principle to further relax rules of origin norms for importing knitwear from Bangladesh, and modalities for the same are being worked out, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque told reporters after his meeting with the ...
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According to data released by the three largest economy contraction yesterday,encumbered by the weak manufacturing in Germany, France and Italy, the eurozone manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) November final value fell to 50.1, ...
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A few days ago, I was in Washington, DC for a conference. On the sidelines of the conference, I met some American friends. We had an interesting discussion about China-US relations. It seems to me that a debate is going on in the United ...
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Palladium climbed to a 13-year high in the longest run of gains in more than a month in New York on concern supply will lag demand and add to shortages. Gold fell. Palladium, mostly used in catalytic converters in cars alongside platinum, ...
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The Brazilian Government would be closely examining the new US farm bill passed recently by the House of Representatives, to see whether it meets with the standards set by the World Trade Organization (WTO), before adopting any retaliatory ...
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According to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), by 2020, China's annual total number of outbound tourists will reach more than 200 million people. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said recently that China will do everything ...
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Three cooperation agreements were signed between China and Afghanistan on Sunday. The signing ceremony took place in presence of President Hamid Karzai and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Dr. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, Afghan advisor of ...
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Oil prices gained Wednesday as U. S. crude inventories decreased last week. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday crude supplies shrank 200,000 barrels to 360 million barrels for the week ending Sept 6. Gasoline supplies rose ...
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The representatives of Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have concluded trade negotiations for Pacific Alliance, at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Pacific Alliance, held in Mexico last month. Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade ...
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China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
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EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht will be hosting a meeting in Geneva entitled "Staying Engaged – A Sustainability Compact with Bangladesh" on July 8, 2013. The high level discussion will focus on agreeing on ways for ...
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