Speakers at a book launching ceremony Thurs­day said that although women’s empowerment is now a top development agenda but surprisingly little work is seen done on how women themselves experience the implementation process as discrimination exists between women classes. They were speaking on the occasion of a launching ceremony of a book titled “Mapping Women’s [...]

Banks should ease the terms and conditions for loans and reduce the interest rate to a single digit for local entrepreneurs, to boost industrialisation, said the industries minister yesterday.

A dialogue in Sylhet yesterday raised demand that the government take immediate measures to establish the much-awaited special economic zone in the district.

A dialogue in Sylhet yesterday raised demand that the government take immediate measures to establish the much-awaited special economic zone in the district.

The Prime Minister’s Adviser for Economic Affairs Mashiur Rahman, middle, speaks at a roundtable on ‘Policy support to CSR in the context of Bangladesh business and economy’ at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday. From right, President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries Annisul Huq, Editor of The Financial Express Moazzem Hossain, President of [...]

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has for the first time fixed a target for all banks and financial institutions of distributing Tk 23,995 crore in small and medium enterprise (SME) loans for 2010.

A delegation of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry meets President Zillur Rahman at Bangabhaban in the capital yesterday.Photo: PID

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Saturday unveiled Women Entrepreneurs’ Directory 2009 and a research-based book and CD on Kasida. Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad unveiled the directory along with the book and the CD at a ceremony at the DCCI Auditorium in the city.

THE Chittagong based non-governmental organisation PHREB (Promoting Human Rights and Education in Bangladesh) has been running long-term school-based awareness campaigns since their establishment in 2004. The purpose of these campaigns is to educate young people on human rights issues and encourage them to speak out and defend their own human rights. These young people will [...]

The country’s eight export processing zones (EPZs) have enough women labour force, but the authorities there have failed to create entrepreneurs and high level jobs for them. According to Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA), very few women entrepreneurs have been found in the EPZs situated in Dhaka, Chittagong, Mongla, Ishwardi, Comilla, Narayanganj, Nilphamari and [...]

The 6th “Dosti-Women Entrepreneurs Trade Expo-2009” (Wetex) will begin on Monday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city to promote and assist the women entrepreneurs. Pakistan High Commission will organise the six-day exhibition, a high commission release said. Around 100 women entrepreneurs from around the region mainly from Bangladesh are expected to participate in [...]

Television has become a major tool for showing women in stereotypical roles.  Imagine a day with no newspaper, no television, not one billboard looming over you no matter where you may be. It’s that difficult to get away from the media. Be it the news, your favourite drama serial, a movie with a friend or [...]

Women entrepreneurs of the country have hailed the budget for the fiscal year 2009-10 placed in the parliament Thursday for providing adequate incentives for the development of ‘women friendly business environment’. Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BWCCI) representative body of the women entrepreneurs in a press release welcomed the government move to allocate [...]

The central bank from now will do CAMEL rating of banks on their lending to women entrepreneurs to allow them to open branches, its chief said. The Bangladesh Bank will also watch the banks to see if their operations conform to the rules, governor Atiur Rahman said at a pre-budge discussion hosted by Bangladesh Women [...]

On November 4, 2008, the United States of America embraced ‘change’ by electing Barrack Obama as the 44th President of America and while I was waiting for the bus in the morning after the election, there were two African American women having a conversation about Obama’s victory. Both had the positive view that his presidency [...]