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Saudi Arabia curbs family influence in Binladin group shake-up
Reuters . Riyadh | Updated at 12:00am on March 20, 2019
The influence of Saudi Arabia’s Bin Laden family on its eponymous construction business has been curtailed in a restructuring that follows an anti-corruption crackdown by...
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Midas SME product fair starts Friday
Business Desk | Updated at 12:00am on March 20, 2019
Midas Financing is going to organise a three-day ‘SME Product Fair -2019’ in Dhaka, said a press release.The three-day fair will start on March 22...
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Innovation in financial products needed for MSE funding: experts
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 20, 2019
Conducive regulations, innovation in financial products and use of technology could increase access to financial services by micro and small enterprises, said policymakers and financial...
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Jute pulp and paper act needed to revive jute sector
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
Experts and businesses on Monday urged the government to formulate a jute pulp and paper act, saying that production of pulp and paper at a...
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Investment to rise in 2-3yrs, hopes Razzaque
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
Agriculture minister M Abdur Razzaque on Monday expressed his high optimism that the public and private investment in the country would increase further within the...
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Boeing crashes cast spotlight on US aviation regulator
Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX? That’s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded...
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US heavy equipment makers feeling pain from tariffs
Reuters | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
US makers of bulldosers and other heavy equipment are raising prices, losing sales and in some cases beginning to trim workers in response to the...
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Malaysia to summon two Goldman Sachs units ahead of 1MDB case
Reuters . Kuala Lumpur | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
Malaysian prosecutors on Monday said they would issue summonses to units of US investment bank Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong, requiring them to...
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Brexit crisis tipped for British asparagus as EU seasonal workers stay away
Reuters . Ross-On-Wye | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2019
For almost 100 years, Chris Chinn’s family has farmed asparagus in the rolling hills of the Wye Valley in western England....
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Indian watchdog raids Glencore business, others over pulse prices
Reuters . New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on March 18, 2019
India’s antitrust watchdog raided units of global commodities trader Glencore and two other firms in Mumbai on Saturday in an inquiry into alleged collusion on...