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Improving the lot of Bangladeshi seafarers

Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006 is meant to protect the right of seafarers which is treated as "Fourth Pillar" next to SOLAS, MARPOL and STCW of International Maritime Organisation (IMO). It is also called "Bill of Right" among the 1.2...

China\'s trade with Belt and Road countries totals 20 trillion yuan

China's trade with countries along the Belt and Road totaled...

ICT and Bangladesh\'s blue economy

It is necessary to adopt a collective strategy to tie...

Proposed amendments to the Banking Companies Act -- a step backward

Recently, the government has approved a proposal to amend the...

More job opportunities needed

IT is indeed alarming to note that the number of...

Grim battle for survival of haor people

Flash floods in the back swamps have wiped rice crop,...

ADB provides a project implementation model

We have a simplistic binary explanation for sluggish execution of...

Pre-Budget parleys: Taxes versus austerity

Every year from early February on, pre-budget discussions and parleys...

Macron faces challenges

Amid televised insults and counterblasts from leading candidates last week,...

Senior citizens need special NIDs

The reported refusal of the Election Commission (EC) to introduce...

World heralds Macron victory with V signs

A thrilling and tumultuous election campaign in France is over....

Economic growth is futile unless it improves people\'s lives

In Bangladesh there are ups and downs in its social...

Protest against culture of lack of justice

What he could not do when he was alive is...

Free trade—the best option for Bangladesh

It now appears that certain sections of people in  Bangladesh  ...

The changing nature of nor\'westers

The first major tornado of the year struck parts of...

Separate lanes for CNG auto-rickshaws

Since the government implemented a ban on CNG-run auto-rickshaws and...

Meat traders\' act of fleecing

The activities of the Dhaka city's meat traders in response...

Stemming price manipulation during Ramadan

It has become a practice that prices of essential commodities...

Urgency for building port capacity  

When geography  endowed   Bangladesh with  sea ports where even big...

Budgetary measures need to be pro-employment

Of the country's total population, 127 million are workable. The...

Workers\' welfare linked to social progress

On rare occasions does a laundry worker or a salesman...

Effective governance key to quality of Asia-Pacific economic growth

The Asia-Pacific region's high and steady economic growth has been...

Pacifying the brewing tension in Korean peninsula

Since North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un flaunted dozens of medium...

A better way from \'R\' to \'D\'

When business leaders get together to talk about innovating their...

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