Business

News Hour: VAT Online Project of National Board of Revenue (NBR) is participating at Income Tax Fair 2017, being held at new NBR Building at Agargaon in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Businesses can register online...

News Hour: Hong Kong stocks opened up on Thursday, tracking Wall Street after the nomination of a new US Federal Reserve chief and the unveiling of Republican tax reforms. The Hang Seng Index gained 0.22 percent,...

News Hour World class electronics and home appliances brand Singer has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bangladesh Extension Education Services Ltd (BEES). Under this MOU terms Singer branded electronics, home appliances, and furniture...

News Hour: Bitcoin climbed to a new all-time high of $6,450 on Wednesday, boosted by bets the cryptocurrency could enter the financial mainstream after the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator said on Tuesday it would launch...

News Hour: Nissan’s passenger car sales plummeted more than 55 percent in Japan last month, data showed on Wednesday, after the company suspended all domestic production due to an inspection scandal. In October, sales of Nissan-brand...

News Hour: British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) has been awarded ‘Dream Company to Work for’ at ‘South Asian Business Excellence Award 2017’. BATB has been also awarded Bangladesh Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, Best Recruiting Evaluation...

News Hour: South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd promised to return $26 billion to shareholders over the next three years as it reported record third-quarter profit on the back of the global boom in...

News Hour: Chinese manufacturing expansion slowed in October after two consecutive months of acceleration, official data showed on Tuesday, as weak demand weighed on the world’s second-largest economy. The manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI), a gauge...

News Hour: Profits at banking giant HSBC leaped fivefold in the third quarter to $4.6 billion, the company said on Monday, as business booms in Asia and a huge restructuring drive bear fruit. The massive jump...

News Hour: Venezuela’s state oil company, which controls the world’s largest crude reserves, said on Friday it had begun paying $842 million in partial repayment of a debt bond maturing in 2020. A default for PDVSA...