Dhaka

DHAKA - Bangladesh's massive river dredging drive is for the first time using locally manufactured dredgers that are more cost effective and also energy efficient.

DHAKA - In another sign of its growing strategic inroads into South Asia, China has proposed to help Bangladesh build a deep-sea port in Chittagong and agreed to exchange data about the Brahmaputra river that flows from Tibet to Bangladesh through India.

DHAKA - Bangladesh and China will sign an economic cooperation pact during the visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, a Bangladeshi official said Monday.

DHAKA - Investors and telecom service operators in Bangladesh are worried at the government's move to enact a stringent law against wrongdoing, envisaging arrest without warrant, no scope for appeal and a fine of Taka three billion ($43.2 million).

DHAKA - Investors and telecom service operators in Bangladesh are worried at the government's move to bring in a stringent law that has provision of arrest without warrant, no scope for appeal and a heavy fine, to punish wrongdoers.