Bangladesh

Government
- Ministry of Commerce http://www.mincom.gov.bd/

• Business Promotion Council (BPC) (http://www.bpc.org.bd/index.php) is a product specific sector promotion council with a mandate for export diversification - represented by government organizations and trade associations having immediate stake on the identified sector.
• Leather Sector Business Promotion Council (LSBPC) http://www.bpc.org.bd/lsbpc_about.php

- Ministry of Industries
- ICT division www.ictd.gov.bd

• In 2002, the name of the ministry was changed from ‘Science and Technology’ to ‘Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology’. To give more thrust for ICT sector the Division has upgraded as Ministry of Information & Communication Technology on 04/12/2011. The change is the evidence of understanding of the importance of ICT from the highest policy level and also an indication that the government is keen to keep pace with modern changing world. After that on 10/02/2014 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and Ministry of ICT are integrated to Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. From 10/02/2014 Ministry of ICT starts as a ICT Division. 

- export promotion bureau http://www.epb.gov.bd/index.php
-  Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ বিনিয়োগ উন্নয়ন কর্তৃপক্ষ; BIDA)is Bangladesh government agency responsible for encouraging and facilitating private investment in Bangladesh. The Chairman of the authority is Kazi M Aminul Islam.The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority was formed by the government of Bangladesh on 1 September 2016.^[4] It was formed through the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority Act. The authority was formed through the merger of Board of Investment and Privatisation Commission.^[6] The authority has a 17-member governing body with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh as the chairman and the Finance Minister as the vice chairman.
- Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Authority (BHTPA) www.bhtpa.gov.bd is a government agency in Bangladesh dedicated to establish, manage and operate technology business parks throughout the country.Formed in 2010, BHTPA is now implementing the projects including the Kaliakoir Hi-tech Park in Gazipur District and Jessore Software Technology Park.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} Planned projects include Mohakhalili IT Village in Dhaka, Barendra Silicon City in Paba Upazila of Rajshahi District, and Sylhet Electronic City in Companiganj Upazila, Sylhet.
- bangladesh bureau of statistics http://www.bbs.gov.bd/home.aspx
- NGO Affairs Bureau was founded in 1990.^[2] All NGOs that receive fund from outside Bangladesh are required by law to register with the bureau which falls under the Prime Minister's office.
- meteorology department http://www.bmd.gov.bd/

吉大港 Chittagong (/tʃɪtəɡɒŋ/), officially known as Chattogram, is a major coastal city and financial centre in southeastern Bangladesh. The city has a population of more than 2.5 million^[1] while the metropolitan area had a population of 4,009,423 in 2011, making it the second-largest city in the country. It is the capital of an eponymous District and Division. 
Ceded to the British East India Company in 1760, Chittagong became the chief port of Eastern Bengal and Assam under the British Raj, as well as a hub of railways. A notable anti-colonial uprising took place in 1930. It was an important base for Allied forces during the Burma Campaign in World War II. Rapid industrialization followed the war, as Chittagong became part of East Pakistan. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Chittagong was site of the country's declaration of independence.Modern Chittagong is an important economic hub in South Asia. It is home to the Chittagong Stock Exchange and many of Bangladesh's oldest and largest companies. The Port of Chittagong is the largest international seaport on the Bay of Bengal. The etymology of Chittagong is uncertain.^[8] One explanation credits the first Arab traders for shatt ghangh (Arabic: شط غنغ‎) where shatt means "delta" and ghangh stood for the Ganges.^[8][9][10] The Burmese tradition is that an Arakanese king, invading in the 9th century, gave the city the name Tsit-ta-gung (to make war is improper).^[8] Another legend dates the name to the spread of Islam, when a Muslim lit a chati (lamp) at the top of a hill in the city and called out (adhan) for people to come to prayer.^[11] However, the local name of the city (in Bengali or Chittagonian) Chatga (Bengali: চাটগা), which is a corruption of Chatgao (Bengali: চাটগাঁও) or Chatigao (Bengali: চাটিগাঁও), and officially Chottogram (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম) bears the meaning of "village or town of Chatta (possibly a caste or tribe)." 
The port city has been known by various names in history, including Chatigaon, Chatigam, Chattagrama, Islamabad, Chattala, Chaityabhumi and Porto Grande De Bengala. In April 2018, the Bangladesh government decided that the English spelling would change from Chittagong to Chattogram to make the name sound similar to the Bangla spelling.

Dhaka
- Banani Model Town is part of Ward No. 19 in Gulshan Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[1][2] Dhaka Tribune described it as a "posh" neighborhood of Dhaka and part of its diplomatic area.
Banani Model Town is located at 23.7950°N 90.4047°E. It has a lake called Banani Lake.^[4] Korail slum is located on the border of Banani.

• https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/28/asia/dhaka-building-fire-intl/index.html A rescue operation has been launched to save people trapped in a blaze engulfing a 22-story building in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.At least five people were killed and 60 injured as the fire ripped through the FR Tower in the commercial Banani area on Thursday.

- Banani Lake is a lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh, bordering Banani, Gulshan, Korail Slum, and Mohakhali. Following the July 2016 Dhaka attack, the government imposed a ban on boats in the lake because of security concerns.^[3][4] The lake has faced encroachment from the Karail area.^[5] The lake borders the larges slum, Korail, and the posh neighborhood of Gulshan.
- Baridhara (Bengali: বারিধারা) is an upscale residential area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is located on the east of and north east of Gulshan across Gulshan-Baridhara Lake. It has special zones designated for diplomats, and many of the foreign embassies and high commissions are situated here. There are mainly three areas diplomatic zone mainly in the south-west portion, general residential area in eastern portion and an adjacent DOHS area in north-east portion.

srimangal upazila
- Diplomats stationed in Dhaka and heads of international organizations are visiting Srimangal to discover and witness firsthand the beauty of Bangladesh.

A delegation led by Foreign Minister Abdul Momen left Dhaka on Friday morning and are scheduled to return on Saturday. On the first day of the two-day tour, the diplomats visited Ispahani tea garden factory in Moulvibazar and witnessed tea processing, said a foreign ministry official. Each delegation member was given processed tea as gift. The delegation was given a warm welcome at Grand Sultan Resort where they attended a cultural event in the evening. The foreign minister said that the purpose of the visit is to inform the foreign friends of Bangladesh about this country, its rich culture, and tourism potential.https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2019/04/06/diplomats-tour-country-s-srimangal

Association
- Bangladesh Bank (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. The bank is active in developing green banking^[2] and financial inclusion policy and is an important member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.^[3] Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), a department of Bangladesh Bank, has got the membership of Egmont Group.

• International payments network SWIFT said it had signed an agreement with Bangladesh’s central bank to help it rebuild its infrastructure after hackers used it to steal US$81 million in 2016 in the world’s biggest cyber heist. Unidentified hackers, suspected to be from North Korea, carried out the heist by breaching Bangladesh Bank’s systems and using the SWIFT network to send fraudulent money transfer orders to the New York branch of the US central bank, with which the Dhaka bank has an account. SWIFT’s comments came after the New York Fed on Friday agreed to provide “technical assistance” to Bangladesh Bank in its lawsuit against Manila-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC). RCBC was used to funnel the money, much of which disappeared into the casinos of the Philippines. RCBC has called the legal action Bangladesh Bank filed on Thursday as beyond the US jurisdiction, “completely baseless” and “nothing more than a thinly veiled PR campaign” to shift blame from itself. “SWIFT, the New York Fed and Bangladesh Bank have worked together since the cyber fraud event occurred … to recover the entire proceeds of the crime and to bring the perpetrators to justice in cooperation with law enforcement from other jurisdictions,” SWIFT said in a statement.

- international

• The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organisation of seven nations of South Asia and South East Asia, housing 1.5 billion people and having a combined gross domestic product of $3.5 trillion (2018).^[3][4] The BIMSTEC member states—Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan ^[5]—are among the countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal. Fourteen priority sectors of cooperation have been identified and several BIMSTEC centres have been established to focus on those sectors.^[3][6] A BIMSTEC free trade agreement is under negotiation (c. 2018). Leadership is rotated in alphabetical order of country names. The permanent secretariat is in Dhaka.

• On June 6, 1997, a new sub-regional grouping was formed in Bangkok under the name BIST-EC (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand Economic Cooperation).^[7][8]On 22 December 1997, Myanmar became a full member, resulting in the renaming of the grouping to BIMST-EC. In 1998, Nepal became an observer. In February 2004, Nepal and Bhutan became full members. On July 31, 2004, in the first Summit the grouping was renamed as BIMSTEC or the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.

- think tank

• The Institute for Policy, Advocacy, and Governance (IPAG) is a Dhaka based think tank which works to improve democratic institutions and structures in Bangladesh.  Founded in 2009.

- SME

• bangladesh small & cottage industries corporation http://www.bscic.gov.bd/

- fashion

• Leathergoods and Footwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association of Bangladesh http://www.bpc.org.bd/lsbpc_lather_association.php
• Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leathergoods and Footwear Exporters' Association http://www.bpc.org.bd/lsbpc_lather_association.php
• Bangladesh Tanners Association http://www.bpc.org.bd/lsbpc_lather_association.php

Company
- AB Bank (formerly Arab Bangladesh Bank) is a leading^[1] private sector bank in Bangladesh established in 31 December 1981.^[2] This was the first joint venture private bank in Bangladesh. On 14 November 2007 Bangladesh bank approved the name change to AB Bank from Arab Bangladesh Bank.^[3] A former deputy managing director was charged with embezzling 3.25 billion taka from the bank.^[4][5] In 2014 AB bank completed its acquisition of Cashlink Bangladesh Limited.^[6] A former vice president and his wife were sentenced to prison terms for embezzlement from the bank in 2016.

• hong kong subsidiary is AB International Finance Limited Hong Kong

• recruitment ad scmp 28apr18

- Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. (IBBL) (Bengali: ইসলামী ব্যাংক বাংলাদেশ লিমিটেড) is the pioneer of Islamic banking in Bangladesh. It became incorporated on 13 March 1983 as a public limited company under the Companies Act 1913.^[5] It has 36.91% local and 63.09% foreign shareholders.Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited is a sharia compliant bank in Bangladesh which started operations on 30 March 1983. It was founded by Saudi and Kuwaiti investors.^[4] It is a public limited company registered under the Companies Act of 1913. IBBL is a joint venture of the government of Bangladesh, 22 businessmen of Bangladesh, Islamic Development Bank, and investment firms and banks from Muslim Middle Eastern countries. According to The Economist, "Islami Bank was a pioneer in financing Bangladesh’s rise as the apparel industry’s main production base outside China."

• economist 6apr19

- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bengali: বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইন্স),^{[nb 1]} commonly known as Biman (Bengali: বিমান), pronounced /biːmɑːn/ (bee-mah-n), is the national flag carrier of Bangladesh,^[5] having its main hub at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka with its flights also operating from its secondary hubs at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong as well as Osmani International Airport in Sylhet. The airline provides international passenger and cargo services to multiple destinations and has air service agreements with 42 countries.^[6] The headquarters of the airline, Balaka Bhaban, is located in Kurmitola, in the northern part of Dhaka. Annual Hajj flights; transporting tourists, migrants and non-resident Bangladeshi workers; and the activities of its subsidiaries form an integral part of the corporate business of the airline.^[7]:11 Bangladesh's air transport sector, which is experiencing an 8% annual growth rate thanks to a large number of outbound tourists, domestic tourists and non-resident Bangladeshi travellers, is very competitive with stiff competition among a number of domestic Bangladeshi private airlines as well as Biman.Created in February 1972, Biman enjoyed an internal monopoly in the aviation industry of Bangladesh until 1996.Biman Bangladesh Airlines was established on 4 January 1972 as Bangladesh's national airline under the Bangladesh Biman Ordinance (Presidential Order No. 126).^[16][17] The initiative to launch the flag carrier was taken by 2,500 former employees, including ten Boeing 707 commanders and seven other former pilots of Pakistan International Airlines, who submitted a proposal to the government on 31 December 1971 following the independence of Bangladesh.^[18]:6 The airline was initially called Air Bangladesh but was soon changed to its current name.
- US-Bangla Airlines is a privately owned Bangladeshi airline headquartered in Dhaka and based at Shahjalal International Airport. US-Bangla Airlines commenced operations with domestic flights on 17 July 2014.^[4] It is a subsidiary of US-Bangla Group, a United States-Bangladesh joint venture company. Initially, the airline launched two domestic destinations, Chittagong and Jessore from its hub in Dhaka.^[4] Flights to Cox's Bazar from Dhaka were launched in August. In October, the airline launched flights to Saidpur. In July 2016, the airline announced plans to phase in its first two Boeing 737-800 aircraft in September of the same year, and to subsequently launch new international routes, for example to Singapore and Dubai by the end of 2016.Its headquarters are in the Baridhara Diplomatic Zone in Dhaka. 
- Bismillah Airlines was launched in 1998. In 2016, it expanded its cargo operations to the Hong Kong Airport. In 1999, BAL launched a commercial route between Bangkok and Dacca with a Boeing 707.Bismillah Airlines is the property of the Mollah Group of Industries.^[1] Bismillah Airlines is the first international cargo carrier in Bangladesh. In 2009, the Mollah Group opened the Bismillah Flying School, the first private flying school in the country.



Bangladesh bank
- http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/bangladesh-bank-new-york-fed-major-lapse/ The central bank of Bangladesh has reportedly said the New York Federal Reserve suffered a “major lapse” when it handled a series of fraudulent transfers amounting to $101 million last month. The New York Fed blocked 30 transactions valued at $850 million in early Feb. due to questions about the recipients, Bloomberg reports, citing an internal document from the Bangladesh Bank dated March 13. The New York Fed cleared another five transactions, later marking them for “due diligence review.” Those five transactions that slipped through resulted in $81 million winding up in the Philippines, where the banks apparently lost track of the funds’ movement. Another $20 million were caught in Sri Lanka before being returned., Epoch times 1apr16 two chinese involved

sovereign fund
- http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/02/06/cabinet-approves-10-billion-sovereign-fund/



Trade and investment environment
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170205/PDF/a12_screen.pdf pros and cons of setting up factories
- rice

• http://nation.com.pk/business/21-jun-2017/bangladesh-slashes-import-duty-on-rice
  Bangladesh has cut import duty on rice to 10 percent from 28 percent in a bid to rein the instability in prices of the staple food item in the domestic market. Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed made the announcement at a press briefing Tuesday in capital Dhaka, a move hailed by experts. He said prices of rice are expected to fall by 6 taka per kilogram as a result of the duty reduction. Officials say a gazette will be issued in this regard soon. Owing to higher import duty placed back in 2015 and 2016 in a bid to safeguard local farmers amid cheap prices from neighboring countries, rice import has dropped to a four-year low this year. Local importers blamed a 28-percent tariff on rice import for the decline. As the domestic rice market has again become volatile in the wake of reports that paddy production is likely to fall this year due to flash floods and rice blast disease, prices of rice continued to soar since April. Against this backdrop, the Bangladeshi government has strengthened its efforts to build buffer stock of rice through quick import. The Bangladeshi government last week decided to import rice from Vietnam for more than 39 taka a kilogram. The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh reportedly recorded a 47-percent hike in the prices of coarse rice this month compared to the same period last year. Price hike of food items particularly staple rice is a key concern for the Bangladeshi government as nearly 31.5 percent of its around 160 million people still live below the national poverty line and spend a large part of their incomes on food purchase.

- textile

• New draft rules of amendments to Bangladesh’s Labour Act 2013 have been approved. As per the draft rules, the apparel sector, as well as other export-orientated industries, will contribute 0.03 per cent of its export value to a workers’ welfare fund.http://www.ecotextile.com/2015060521513/social-compliance-csr-news/bangladesh-labour-law-amendments-approved.html
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a3822e6-6804-11e5-a155-02b6f8af6a62.html Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz and other western brands have been accused of failing to fulfil commitments made after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster to ensure that the Bangladeshi factories making their clothes are safe. International labour activists say efforts to guarantee Bangladesh factory buildings are structurally sound and meet fire safety standards are lagging far behind schedule. Unions are now initiating a formal complaint against H&M and some other major brands to account for the slow pace of progress in their supplier factories, the first step in a complaint process that could lead to unprecedented arbitration. “The pace of remediation is too slow, and we are committed to ensure that it gains in speed,” said Ben Vanpeperstraete, supply chain co-ordinator of IndustriALL Global Union, which represents workers’ interests as part of the Bangladesh Accord on Building and Fire Safety. “We want to make sure the brands have lived up to their commitments.”
• https://www.ft.com/content/5cd0d9ea-d316-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1b51 Bangladesh’s garment-making sector has rebounded so strongly following the Rana Plaza disaster that economists and labour leaders are warning it risks holding back the country’s economy as a whole. Nearly four years after the collapse of a factory in Dhaka, the country’s capital, in which more than 1,100 garment workers were killed, western clothing companies are buying more from Bangladeshi factories than ever before. But while the booming garment industry is contributing to an overall growth rate of 7 per cent, economists say it is suppressing wages and crowding out higher value sectors.

- ict

• Vision 2021 was the political manifesto of the Bangladesh Awami League party before winning the National Elections of 2008. It stands as a political vision of Bangladesh for the year 2021, the golden jubilee of the nation. The policy has been criticized as a policy emblematic of technological optimism in the context of Bangladesh and the state repression of media, low internet penetration, inadequate electricity generation. The Vision 2021 is an articulation of where this nation needs to be in 2021 – the year which marks the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence.Digital Bangladesh implies the broad use of computers, and embodies the modern philosophy of effective and useful use of technology in terms of implementing the promises in education, health, job placement and poverty reduction. The party underscored a changing attitude, positive thinking and innovative ideas for the successes of “Digital Bangladesh”.The government further emphasized on the four elements of “Digital Bangladesh Vision” which are human resource development, people involvement, civil services and use of information technology in business.

People
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bengali: শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; Bengali pronunciation: [Shekh Mujibur Rôhman]; (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), shortened as Sheikh Mujib or just Mujib, was a Bengali politician and statesman. He is the founding father of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He served as the First President of Bangladesh and later Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1971 until his assassination in August 1975. He is considered to be the driving force behind the independence of Bangladesh. He is popularly known under the title of Bangabandhu (Bôngobondhu "Friend of Bengal"). He became a leading figure in and eventually the leader of the Awami League, founded in 1949 as an East Pakistan-based political party in Pakistan. Mujib is credited as an important figure in efforts to gain politician autonomy for East Pakistan and later as the central figure behind the Bangladesh Liberation Movement and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Thus, he is regarded Jatir Janak (Jatir Jônok "Father of the Nation") of Bangladesh. His daughter Sheikh Hasina is the current leader of the Awami League and the present Prime Minister of Bangladesh. An advocate of socialism, Mujib rose to the ranks of the Awami League and East Pakistani politics as a charismatic and forceful orator. He became popular for his opposition to the ethnic and institutional discrimination of Bengalis in Pakistan, who comprised the majority of the state's population. At the heightening of sectional tensions, he outlined a 6-point autonomy plan and was jailed by the regime of Field Marshal Ayub Khan for treason. Mujib led the Awami League to win the first democratic election of Pakistan in 1970. Despite gaining a majority, the League was not invited by the ruling military junta to form a government. As civil disobedience erupted across East Pakistan, Mujib indirectly announced inpependence of Bangladesh during a landmark speech on 7 March 1971. On 26 March 1971, the Pakistan Army responded to the mass protests with Operation Searchlight, in which Prime Minister-elect Mujib was arrested and flown to solitary confinement in West Pakistan, while Bengali civilians, students, intellectuals, politicians and military defectors were murdered as part of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. After Bangladesh's liberation, Mujib was released from Pakistani custody and returned to Dhaka in January 1972. Sheikh Mujib became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh under a parliamentary system adopted by the new country. His government enacted a constitution proclaiming socialism and secular democracy. The Awami League won a huge mandate in the country's first general election in 1973. However, Mujib faced challenges of rampant unemployment, poverty, and corruption. A famine took place in 1974. The government was criticized for denying constitutional recognition to indigenous minorities and human rights violations by its security forces, notably the National Defence Force para militia. Amid rising political agitation, Mujib initiated one party socialist rule in January 1975. Six months later, he and most of his family were assassinated by renegade army officers during a coup. A martial lawgovernment was subsequently established. Mujib was born in Tungipara, a village in Gopalganj District in the province of Bengal in British India,^[1] to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman, a serestadar (court clerk) of Gopalganj civil court. He was born into a Muslim, native Bengali family as the third child in a family of four daughters and two sons.

• In the election held on March 7, 1973 according to the constitution, Bangabandhu’s Awami League won a landslide victory and established the system of electing a government for a tenure of five years. According to the fourth amendment of 1975, he converted the ruling system to a government run by a president.
  With his extraordinary leadership, within three years Bangabandhu managed to fulfill the rehabilitation tasks in war-torn Bangladesh. He established political stability and worked for economic reformation. He had a vision for the development of Bangladesh. He stated in the Algerian assembly: “The world is divided into two halves, the oppressed and the oppressors, I am with the oppressed.
   
  ”He believed that his nation would be a Golden Bengal and that there was no alternative to education, research, and creativity. https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/15/op-ed-bangabandhu-the-luminary-of-our-nation
• Sheikh Hasina Wazed (Bengali: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ; English: /ˈʃeɪk həˈsiːnə/, SHAYK hə-SEE-nə; born 28 September 1947) is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh, in office since January 2009. Hasina's political career has spanned more than four decades. She previously served as opposition leader from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1995, as Prime Minister from 1996 to 2001, and has been leading the Bangladesh Awami League since 1981.^[1][2][3][4] In 2008, she returned as Prime Minister with a landslide victory. In January 2014, she became Prime Minister for a third term in an unopposed election, violating the key rules of the Constitution.Two of the most outstanding achievements of Sheikh Hasina are her leadership-roles and success behind the trials of Bangabandhu killers and the persons who committed crimes against humanity in 1971. Hasina's second term (2009 to 2014) as Prime Minister is overshadowed by quite a few scandalous incidents. These include: Padma Bridge Scandal, Hallmark-Sonali Bank Scam, Share market Scandal, Rana Plaza collapse, and Railway Ministry bribery scandal. For the better part of the last two decades, Hasina's chief rival has been BNP leader Khaleda Zia, and their rivalry is popularly known as the "Battle of Begums". The two women have alternated as non-interim Prime Ministers since 1991.Sheikh Hasina was born in Tungipara, East Bengal on 28 September 1947. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, first president of Bangladesh, and Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. As she said in many interviews that she had grown up in fear due to her father's political works. Hasina was not in Bangladesh when her father was assassinated on 15 August 1975. She was not allowed to return to the country until after she was elected to lead the Awami League Party in 16 February 1981 and arrived on 17 May 1981.

• 其長女哈西娜在一九九六年擔任總理後，開始追究策劃政變人士的刑事責任，一名潛逃多年的兇手近日落網，上周六被施以絞刑處死。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200413/00180_034.html

- The Hasan Family also spelled Hassan, is an esteemed Bangladeshi family, who have contributed exceptionally to South Asian politics and various social movements for nearly four-hundred years. The seat of this Zamindar family is located in Baniachang, Sylhet near the town of Habiganj. The family is one of the remaining remnants of the nobility of theMughal Court to exist in Bangladesh, with their ancient home still intact.

• Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG (Bengali:ফজলে হাসান আবেদ; born 27 April 1936) is a Bangladeshi social worker, the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world's largestnon-governmental organization with over 120,000 employees. For his contributions to social improvement, he has received theRamon Magsaysay Award, the UNDPMahbub Ul Haq Award, the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award and the inaugural WISE Prize for Education. In 2015, he received World Food Prize for his “unparalleled” work on reducing poverty inBangladesh and 10 other countries.^[1] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George(KCMG) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services in tackling poverty and empowering the poor in Bangladesh and globally.

- Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Bengali: হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990,^[2] a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship. He seized power as head of the army during a bloodless coup against President Abdus Sattar in 24 April 1982 (by imposing martial law and suspending the Constitution). He declared himself President in 1983,^[6] and subsequently won the controversial^[7] 1986 Bangladeshi presidential election. Despite claims to have legitimately won the 1986 election, many consider his regime as an era of military dictatorship.^[3][4][5] Ershad served in the Presidential office until 1990, when he was forced to resign following a popular pro-democracy mass uprising led by Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina. Ershad founded the Jatiya Party in 1986 and became a Member of Parliament for that party in the constituency of Rangpur-3 in 1991, with successful re-election in all subsequent general elections. During his tenure Ershad pursued devolution reforms, privatization of nationalised industries; the expansion of the national highway system; and the founding of SAARC; he committed his nation's forces as an ally to the United States in the Gulf War. He contributed to developments in infrastructure and socio-economic growth, divesting key nationalised industries. He restored the chain of command in the Bangladesh Armed Forces after the turmoil following the Mujib assassination.^[8] In 1989, Ershad pushed parliament to make Islam the state religion, in a sharp departure from Bangladesh's original secular constitution.^{[citation needed]} Ershad was awarded United Nations Population Award in 1987 for his contributions to population and environmental issues.
- Begum Khaleda Zia (IPA: kʰaled̪a dʒia; née Majumder, born 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. When she took office in 1991, she was the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world (after Benazir Bhutto) to head a democratic government as prime minister. Zia was the First Lady of Bangladesh during the presidency of her husband Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) which was founded by Rahman in the late 1970s.
After a military coup in 1982, led by Army Chief General H M Ershad, Zia helped lead the continuing movement for democracy until the fall of military dictator Ershad in 1990. Khaleda became prime minister following the victory of the BNP in the 1991 general election. She also served briefly in the short-lived government in 1996, when other parties had boycotted the first election. In the next round of general elections of 1996, the Awami League came to power. Her party came to power again in 2001. She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001.Khaleda Zia was born to father Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and mother Taiyaba Majumder in Dinajpur District in Bengal, British India (now in north-western Bangladesh).^[8][9][10] Khaleda Majumder married Ziaur Rahman in 1960, an Army officer who became the 7th President of Bangladesh in 1977. He ruled until 1981, when he was assassinated in a military coup.

• Khaleda Zia claims 15 August as her birthday, which is a matter of controversy in Bangladesh politics.^[58][59] 15 August is the day many immediate family members of Zia's political rival, Sheikh Hasina, including her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were killed. As a result of the deaths, 15 August is officially declared National Mourning Day of Bangladesh.

financial

- economist 7mar2020 "rules are made to be broken" a well-connected mobile money firm benefits from special treatment


Energy
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/241059fa-9424-11e5-bd82-c1fb87bef7af.html Low-lying and densely populated, Bangladesh is among the countries most at risk from climate change and rising sea levels. Yet this vulnerable south Asian nation has ambitious plans to increase its use of coal — a big contributor to global warming — with the help of international donors. The aim is to increase coal’s share of electricity output from 2 per cent to 50 per cent by 2030. Like neighbouring India, which will also be severely affected by climate change, Bangladesh says it has little choice but to expand coal-fired power generation to develop its fast-growing economy, even at the expense of its own environment.
- electricity

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-adb-power-idUSKBN18P0SX The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $616 million loan to Bangladesh to help the south Asian nation meet its goal of providing 100 percent access to electricity to its citizens by 2021. The project includes rehabilitation and expansion of over 50,000 kilometers of rural distribution network across the country, construction of a 174-km 400 kV transmission link between southern Bangladesh and Dhaka, and installation of automated control systems for the distribution network in the capital.

military exercise
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170815/00178_011.html 傳出中國和印度將參加由孟加拉主持的印度洋聯合軍演，惟消息未獲中國軍方證實。

Education
- http://www.4-traders.com/news/Internet-improves-education-for-Bangladeshs-rural-children--19478137/

rohingya

-孟加拉政府計劃把東北部邊境科克斯巴扎爾2,500名羅興亞難民遷移到巴山查爾島一個難民營，但事前沒有取得他們的同意，約1,000人前日啟程。孟加拉灣的巴山查爾島位置偏遠，而且易受氣旋及洪水侵襲，有人權組織關注難民是否被迫遷到島上。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201205/00180_021.html


History
- Bengal under the Mughals https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft067n99v9&chunk.id=d0e6918&toc.id=ch01&brand=ucpress
- The Bihar famine of 1873–1874 (also the Bengal famine of 1873–1874) was a famine in British India that followed a drought in the province of Bihar, the neighboring provinces of Bengal, the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. It affected an area of 54,000 square miles (140,000 km²) and a population of 21.5 million.^[1] The relief effort—organized by Sir Richard Temple, the newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal—was one of the success stories of the famine relief in British India; there was little or no mortality during the famine.
- The Bihar famine of 1966–7 was a minor famine with relatively very few deaths from starvation as compared to earlier famines .^[2] The famine demonstrated the ability of the Indian government to deal with the worst of famine related circumstances.^[3] The official death toll from starvation in the Bihar famine was 2353, roughly half of which occurred in the state of Bihar.^[117] No significant increase in the number of infant deaths from famine was found in the Bihar famine.^[23] The annual production of food grains had dropped in Bihar from 7.5 million tonnes in 1965–66 to 7.2 million tonnes in 1966–1967 during the Bihar drought. There was an even sharper drop in 1966–67 to 4.3 million tonnes. The national grain production dropped from 89.4 million tonnes in 1964–65 to 72.3 in 1965–66 — a 19% drop. Rise in prices of food grains caused migration and starvation, but the public distribution system, relief measures by the government, and voluntary organisations limited the impact. On a number of occasions, the Indian-government sought food and grain from the United States to provide replacement for damaged crops. The government also set up more than 20,000 fair-price stores to provide food at regulated prices for the poor or those with limited incomes. A large scale famine in Bihar was adverted due to this import, although livestock and crops were destroyed. Other reasons for successfully averting a large scale famine were the employing various famine prevention measures such as improving communication abilities, issuing famine bulletins over the radio and offering employment to those affected by famine in government public works projects.^[120]The Bihar drought of 1966–67 gave impetus to further changes in agricultural policy and this resulted in the Green Revolution.
- The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastatingtropical cyclone that struck then East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) andIndia's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times. Up to 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of thestorm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. This cyclone was the sixth cyclonic storm of the1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, and also the season's strongest. The Awami League, headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, swept to a landslide victory in the national elections in December 1970, in part because of dissatisfaction over failure of the relief efforts by the national government. The elections for nine national assembly and eighteen provincial assembly seats had to be postponed until January 18 as a result of the storm.^[35] The government's handling of the relief efforts helped exacerbate the bitterness felt in East Pakistan, swelling the resistance movement there. Funds only slowly got through, and transport was slow in bringing supplies to the devastated regions. As tensions increased in March, foreign personnel evacuated because of fears of violence.^[30] The situation deteriorated further and developed into the Bangladesh Liberation War in March. This conflict widened into the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 in December and concluded with the creation ofBangladesh. This was one of the first times that a natural event helped to trigger a civil war.
- The Bangladesh Liberation War (Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ Muktijuddho), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. It resulted in the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The war began after the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971. It pursued the systematic elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, religious minorities and armed personnel. The junta annulled the results of the 1970 elections and arrested Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

uk
- colonial

• Bhadralok (Bengali: ভদ্রলোক bhôdrôlok, literally 'gentleman', 'well-mannered person') is Bengali for the new class of 'gentlefolk' who arose during British colonial times(approximately 1757 to 1947) in Bengal.Most, though not all, members of the bhadralok class are upper caste, mainly Baidyas, Brahmins, Kayasthas, and later Mahishyas. There is no precise translation of bhadralok in English, since it attributes economic and class privilege on to caste ascendancy. Many bhadraloks in the nineteenth century came from the privileged Brahmin or Priest caste or middle level merchant class (such as Rani Rashmoni). Anybody who could show considerable amount of wealth and standing in society was a member of the bhadralok community.The bhadralok community includes all gentlefolk belonging to the rich as well as middle class segments of the Bengali society. Amongst the upper middle classes, a zamindar, or landowner, normally bearing the title Chaudhuri or Roy Chaudhuri at the end of the name, and Babu at the beginning would be considered to be a bhadralok. A zamindar bearing the title Raja or Maharaja would be considered to be higher than middle class, but would still be a bhadralok 'gentleman'. All members of the professional classes, i.e. those belonging to the newly emerging professions, such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, university professors, and higher civil servants, were members of the bhadralok community. However, an individual bearing the title Esquire at the end of the name, denoting a rank just below a Knight, was also considered to be higher than a bhadralok.

• The two biggest factors that led to the rise of the bhadralok were the huge fortunes many merchant houses made from aiding the English East India Company's trade up the Ganga valley, and Western-style education (at the hands of the colonial rulers and of missionaries). The steep rise in real estate prices in Calcutta also led some petty landlords in the area to become wealthy overnight. The first identifiable bhadralok figure is undoubtedly Ram Mohan Roy, who bridged the gap between the Persianised nobility of the Sultanate era in Bengal and the new, Western-educated, nouveau riche comprador class

• The term Babu means an individual of rank and dignity. It is most commonly used to refer to gentleman, but is meant for anybody who enjoys a position of dominance in his immediate social circle. An Indian zamindar as well as an Indian member of the higher government services was referred to as a Babu. Amongst the landlords a Babu in the former Bengal Presidency, especially in Bengal and Behar, was normally a substantial and extremely wealthy zamindar in the same rank as a Thakur or a Mirza, and would rank just below a Raja. The term Babu has been historically used to refer to the upper echelons of the Indian society, including the ruling classes.^{[citation needed]}  In the colonial period the term was derogatorily used to refer to members of the indigenous community, especially in law courts and revenue establishments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where most members were appointed as Munsifs from respectable and/or zamindari families.

India
- border dispute

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-08/01/content_21469960.htm Bangladesh and India prepared on Friday to swap tiny enclaves of land, ending oneof the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of peoplein stateless limbo for nearly 70 years. Officials of the two nations were due to raise their respective national flags in 162enclaves - 111 in Bangladesh and 51 in India - at one minute past midnight localtime (2 am on Saturday, Beijing time) to assume sovereignty over the territoriesfollowing a historic border pact in June.

- http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/03/15/delhi-says-no-money-indian-martyrs-1971/

- energy

• http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/1915628/india-set-seal-major-power-deal-bangladesh-beating-china

- beef

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-07/04/content_21179321.htm About 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a newmandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year - stop cattlefrom crossing into the Muslim-majority neighbor. About every other night, troops armed with bamboo sticks and ropes wade throughjute and paddy fields and swim across ponds to chase aging bovines that are beingsmuggled across the border, headed for markets in Bangladesh. The crackdown is one of the clearest signs yet of how Indian policies are having aneconomic impact on neighboring countries. About 2 million head of cattle aresmuggled into Bangladesh annually from India. The $600 million-a-year trade hasflourished over the past four decades and is considered legal by Dhaka.

Japan
- The Japanese School Dhaka (ダッカ日本人学校 Dakka Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Baridhara, Dhaka. It was established in 1975.

malaysia
- The Bangladeshi Malaysians consists of people of full or partial Bangladeshi descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia. Bangladeshis in Malaysia form a large proportion of Malaysia's foreign labour force. Their population was estimated to total 221,000 persons, roughly one-eighth of all the foreign workers in Malaysia as of 2017.^[1] In early 2016, a controversial agreement by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was conjured to send a total of 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers in stages for 3 years to Malaysia.^[2] This decision was met with criticism from both individuals in government and the general Malaysian public and was quickly revoked. Bengali people have long established in Malaysia, history record demonstrated that the traders from the Bay of Bengal had been involved in commercial activities in the Sultanate of Malacca in the 15th-16th century. During the colonial era, both British Malaya and the Strait Settlements received Bengali-speaking communities bought by the British from the Bengal Presidency that constitute modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The mass arrival from Bengal correlated with the larger migration from British India to work with the colonial government and companies. Many of them consist of traders, policemen, coolies, plantation labourers and colonial soldiers. This pioneer migration are largely taken place from the late 18th century^[6] to the 1930s. Today, there are estimated that around 230,000 people of Bengali ancestry in Malaysia. Among the legacy of the pioneers is the Bengali Mosque in Penang which was built in 1803. The first migrant workers from modern-day Bangladesh are believed to have been a group of 500 who came in 1986 to work on plantations; the two countries concluded a governmental-level agreement on manpower exports in 1992, following which migration expanded sharply. Bangladesh is one of five countries, along with Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand, which have such agreements with Malaysia for manpower exports.^[7] As of 1999, official figures record 385,496 Bangladeshis as having gone to Malaysia for work, of whom roughly 229,000 were in the country at that time, forming 12% of all Bangladeshi workers overseas. This figure was roughly comparable to the numbers in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, but much smaller than the number in Saudi Arabia, the top destination, where roughly one million resided.^[8] Remittances from Malaysia to Bangladesh amounted to roughly US$5 million in 1993, but grew eleven times to US$57 million by 1999. Construction workers form a large proportion of Bangladeshi migrant workers. From July 1992 until December 1995, of 89,111 Bangladeshis issued temporary work passes, 26,484, or 29.7%, worked in construction, forming one-fifth of all workers in the construction sector in Malaysia and making them the second-largest group behind Indonesians. 91.4% were first-time migrants, who had never previously worked abroad. Surveys showed between 6.4% and 14.9% admitted to working illegally, without proper employment authorisation or travel documents. A scandal arose in 1996 when it became known that Bangladeshi consular officials in Kuala Lumpur had overcharged at least 50,000 workers applying for passport renewal by RM200-300, thus appropriating RM10-15 million for themselves. The situation resulted in many Bangladeshi workers becoming undocumented, and Bangladesh's government later came to an agreement with the Malaysian authorities to redress the situation and issue fresh passports to those affected. However, none of the officials concerned were penalised.^[10] The following year, an amnesty was offered under which 150,000 illegal workers were able to regularise their status.^[11]


chinese
- ngan po ling initiated to form banglandeshi chinese association singtao 20sep17 a14
- 孟加拉一間中資發電廠地盤，周三有當地工人與中國勞工共數百人大打出手，導致一名中國勞工死亡。事件起因相信是一名孟加拉工人在地盤意外死亡，當地民眾質疑中國有意隱瞞事件。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190620/00178_007.html

China
- diplomatic ties

• http://www.chinadailyasia.com/asiaweekly/2016-01/22/content_15376654.html Following last year’s celebrations to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties between China and Bangladesh, diplomats are encouraging Chinese companies to invest in the South Asian country’s labor-intensive and infrastructure sectors. Chinese diplomats in Bangladesh said the country, with a total area of 147,570 square kilometers and population of 170 million, has a proven ability to drive consumption and boost its economy. Over the last 11 years, Bangladesh has had an average GDP increase of 6 percent per annum without excessive energy consumption. The success has been supported by the large and young labor force, said Ma Mingqiang, China’s ambassador to Bangladesh. In May 2013, Premier Li Keqiang proposed the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor project to integrate the development of the four neighboring economies. Policies have also been initiated to strengthen connectivity and trade, and to boost ties among the four countries. China has emerged as Bangladesh’s biggest trading partner on the back of rising commercial ties between the two countries. This also comes as China’s exports face escalating challenges amid declining demand from major economies such as the United States and the European Union. Wang Zijian, economic and commercial counselor of the Chinese embassy in Bangladesh, said trade volume between the two countries is expected to reach $13 billion this year. Meanwhile, the Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, seeks investment in trade and infrastructure networks along the ancient land and sea trading routes between China and more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa. Based on surveys and research in Southeast and South Asia, some Chinese enterprises expect that Bangladesh has the potential to benefit from the initiative, according to Wang of the Chinese embassy. The initiative offers an opportunity to upgrade the country’s infrastructure that lags very much behind many other Asian countries.

- leaders visit

• http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20161016/PDF/a7_screen.pdf 中國國家主席習近平在對孟加拉國進行國事訪問期間，兩國發表聯合聲明稱，基於雙方對發展友好合作的強烈意願和兩國合作的廣闊前景，雙方一致同意，將中孟關係提升為戰略合作伙伴關係。聲明共有23項內容，涉及高層交往、發展戰略對接、投資貿易、產能合作、金融合作、海洋事務等多個領域。　　內容主要包括，一、加強兩國高層交往，積極利用國際多邊場合舉行兩國領導人會晤，擴大兩國政府、立法機關、政黨以及兩國人民之間各級別交流與合作，進一步深化互信。二、加強兩國發展戰略對接，充分挖掘各領域合作潛力，推進“一帶一路”建設，實現兩國可持續發展和共同繁榮。　　三、擴大和深化貿易和投資合作，將基礎設施、產能合作、能源電力、交通運輸、資訊通信、農業作為中孟務實合作的重點領域加以推進。四，雙方對簽署中孟關於開展產能合作框架協議表示滿意，一致認為上述框架協議將有助於兩國產能領域企業和金融機構提高投資與合作水平。　　五、雙方歡迎中國金融機構為雙方合作提供融資支持，並願為重大項目合作探索多種融資方式。雙方將在亞洲基礎設施投資銀行框架內加強合作。六，繼續採取多種措施促進中孟雙邊貿易平衡發展。雙方同意就建立中孟自由貿易區開展聯合可行性研究。http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/xiattendsbricssummit/2016-10/15/content_27068982.htm 
  China agreed to provide loans to Bangladesh for projects including roads, bridges, tunnels and power plants on Friday during President Xi Jinping's historic visit to the country. Witnessed by Xi and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 56 agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed to enhance cooperation on telecommunication, infrastructure, finance and trade.  The two leaders also attended a joint inauguration ceremony to unveil six cooperative projects including a tunnel and a Confucius Institute.http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20161015/PDF/a8_screen.pdf

- senior official visit

• The Chinese foreign minister also suggested the two sides to explore new cooperation areas such as maritime cooperation. China will continue to encourage Chinese enterprises to invest in Bangladesh, he added. Hasina and Wang also discussed the Rohingya issue. Wang said the issue should be resolved by Bangladesh and Myanmar through dialogue and consultation, and expected the two sides to sign an agreement as scheduled on the repatriation of the Rohingya people who have crossed into Bangladesh.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2017-11/20/content_34753220.htm

- military

• 由中船重工武船集團與孟加拉昆拉船廠聯合建造的兩艘大型反潛巡邏艇，周日已交付給孟加拉，並於當天在孟加拉舉行了文件簽署儀式。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180120/00178_006.html
• 孟加拉國防部上周六發布一段武裝部隊的紀錄片，並宣布將向中國訂購首批四十四輛VT5輕型坦克，組成一個坦克團，標誌中國國產新一代輕型坦克已經打開國際市場。有孟加拉傳媒報道指，該國陸軍計劃增購VT5坦克至一百四十輛。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191204/00178_002.html

- drug trafficking

• 中國警方持續與南亞國家加強合作，掃毒滅罪。國務委員、公安部部長趙克志於周二（16日）在北京與孟加拉內政部部長阿薩杜扎曼•汗舉行會談時表示，冀望落實中孟兩國領導人的重要共識，深化打擊跨國犯罪、禁毒及反恐等方面的務實合作。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190418/00178_009.html

- industrial zone

• http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/15/c_136368863.htm Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA) and China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) Thursday signed an agreement of shareholders for development of Chinese economic and industrial zone in southeastern Bangladesh. Under the agreement signed by BEZA Executive Chairman Paban Chowdhury and CHEC Vice President Xiong Shengquan, the Chinese company will develop the economic and industrial zone dedicated for Chinese investors at Anwara on the outskirts of Bangladesh's seaport city Chittagong, some 242 km southeast of the capital Dhaka.

- financial

• stock exchange

• 由深圳证券交易所与上海证券交易所组成的中方联合体竞得孟加拉国达卡证券交易所（以下简称达卡交易所）25%股权，昨日已获孟加拉国证券交易委员会正式批准中方联合体竞标方案。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180504/PDF/b2_screen.pdf

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/28/WS5ae3c7fda3105cdcf651b109.html Ant Financial Services Group, the company behind the popular payment app Alipay, is extending its tentacles to Bangladesh through a partnership with a local mobile financial service provider, another step toward its globalization goal of serving 2 billion users within 10 years. The financial technology giant on Thursday entered into an agreement with bKash, a payment platform established by the central bank of Bangladesh, pledging to help the latter with technological upgrades it needs to serve the country's unbanked and underbanked population. The duo will join forces to co-create a local version of a mobile payment tool mimicking Alipay, with core functionalities like money transfer embedded on feature phones at the current stage, sources told China Daily on Friday.

- railway

• http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2001471/china-wins-us3-billion-bid-build-rail-line-bangladesh
• State-owned railway contractor China Railway Construction said on Thursday a subsidiary has signed a contract worth 8.52 billion yuan ($1.29 billion) with Bangladesh Railway. The contract is for building a 173-kilometer long railway line with a construction period of 48 months.https://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Nikkei-Markets/China-Railway-Construction-Receives-CNY8.52-Bln-Order-In-Bangladesh

- electricity

• http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/10/19/b06-1019.pdf新疆特變電工股份有限公司日前在孟加拉國首都達卡與達卡配電公司簽署合同，承攬了投資總額超過 111 億元人民幣的達卡地區智能電網建設和升級項目。
• http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170203/00178_003.html孟加拉大批民眾反對當地一個造價近廿四億美元（逾一百八十六億港元）、由中資投資興建的燃煤發電廠項目，近日發起示威行動。據悉該發電廠工程由山東電力建設第三工程公司負責，廠房位於外國投資孟加拉的重地、首都達卡東南部二百六十五公里外，預計一九年底投入發電，造價逾一百八十六億港元。
•  A Chinese and Bangladeshi consortium company will build a 150 MW power plant for a leading local private firm in the country's northeastern region. Midland East Power Ltd, a leading local firm, signed an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contact with consortium of Chinese CRRC Ziyang Co., Ltd. and Bangladeshi Green Power Ltd. for construction of 150 MW HFO power plant at Ashuganj in Bangladesh's Brahmanbaria district, some 109 km northeast of capital Dhaka. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/17/c_136616353.htm

- bridge

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/07/WS5aefbc02a3105cdcf651c571.html China Major Bridge Engineering Co Ltd - construction of the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh

- oil

• 中國與孟加拉周日簽署政府間框架協議。中方將為孟方建設輸油管道及相關設施，同時提供融資，總承包合同金額為五億五千萬美元（近四十三億港元），包括鋪設該條總長達二百二十公里的海上及陸上輸油管道。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171031/00178_009.html
• https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3023421/sinopec-engineering-tasked-deliver-beijings-belt-and-road-initiative Sinopec Engineering (Group), a key implementer of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is confident it can win a bid to expand an oil refinery in Bangladesh, according to its president.

- coal

• ft 12mar2021 china shuns bangladesh on coal mine funding

- ict

• http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170912/PDF/a20_screen.pdf 　中国和孟加拉国两国政府代表10日在孟加拉国首都达卡签署框架协议，中方将为孟方提供优惠贷款，用于建设孟加拉国网络基础设施项目。根据协议，贷款将用于支持孟加拉国政府基础网络三期项目和通信网络现代化项目的建设。该项目是“数字孟加拉”战略的基础设施载体，建成后可满足该国未来10年的网络发展需求，将直接带动孟通信、信息科技、政务及教育等领域的发展。

- garment park

• http://www.ecotextile.com/2014061612654/materials-production-news/garment-park-development-fund-receives-12-billion.html The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports Association (BGMEA) has secured a deal worth US$1.2 billion to fund the Baushia Garment Park project, after Chinese trading company Orient International agreed to the investment in a bid to improve non-compliant facilities in garment factories.

- buddhism

• http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/02/c_136096597.htm Buddhists in Bangladesh are brimming with inner pride as with the support of China, a new stupa has been built as a monument to house sacred relics and honor an ancient Buddhist scholar. The stupa, in part, memorializes and honors the Buddhist scholar Atish Dipankar Srijnan, who was born in 980 AD and died in 1053 AD, with the sanctuary being opened at the place of his birth in Bangladesh. Originally named Chandragarbha by his parents, Atish was born into a royal family in the Vajrayogini village on the outskirts of the country's capital city of Dhaka. The newly-constructed memorial to the saint and philosopher, who historically was known for his unique character, erudition, scholarly attributes, and spiritual eminence, opened to the public on Tuesday. In attendance at the monument's opening ceremony was Chunyi, vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, who attended as a chief guest, and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ma Mingqiang was also present as special guest.

- anti chinese protests

• http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160406/00178_016.html 中國加大海外投資步伐惹起當地民眾不滿，孟加拉及斯里蘭卡均有針對中資項目的示威。其中孟加拉東南部有村民為抗議兩座中資援建發電廠，周一示威演變成衝突，警方開槍擊斃四人。

Hong Kong
- scmp supplement

• 26mar16, 27mar17, 26mar18

- interview with Bangladesh cg in HK

• hkej 16dec14 c3
• http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/201910/1027/HA01A27CGAA_HKCD.pdf

- delegation from hk

• 香港中華廠商聯合會會長吳宏斌早 前率領一行 28 人訪問團，於 5 月 22 日至 26 日前赴孟加拉考察，以 了解當地最新的經貿發展，為開拓 「一帶一路」 市場探路，以抗禦中 美貿易摩擦所帶來的風險。http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/201906/0603/HZ15603CLCA_HKCD.pdf

- ip event in hk

• tdc sem on manufacturing investment setting foot in bangladesh on 26feb19 (speakers: mr mehdi hasan, bangladesh cg in hk; dr khalilur rahman, foreign service officer, mfa, dhaka, bangladesh; md shah alam, dep sec to government of the people's republic of bangladesh; mr felix chang, ceo and ed, evergreen products group ltd)

- investors from Hong Kong

• http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20141103/00202_019.html 內地成本急速上漲，製造業不斷另覓廉價生產基地的「新大陸」。飛達控股（01100）正面對產能持續「供不應求」，公司副主席兼董事總經理顏寶鈴透露，公司全年都要「推單」，估計未來5年訂單不絕，故有意在孟加拉作第二期發展，目前正物色收購目標，期望在明年第一季落實http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/02/27/b02-0227.pdf 集團目前於深圳和孟加拉設有生產線， 孟加拉工廠僱用約 2,500人，工人每周工 作 6天，計及保險每名員工月薪 600至 700 港元。相比之下，約 1,700人的深圳工廠 成本高得驚人，未計伙食和「五險三 金」，每名員工月薪已超過 4,000元人民 幣。財務總監黎文星說，若內地人力成本 繼升，不排除徹底從內地撤資。 不過，孟加拉基建配套不足，始終是港 商最大困擾。供電斷斷續續、交通大塞 車、員工質素欠佳，而「除了人工，包括 地價、進口材料、食物在內的什麼都 貴」。內地人工雖貴，但在物流、研發上 仍有優勢。 為便利營商，業界希望在當地設立「中 國工業城」，並設立港企專區方便港商 「埋堆」，同時傳授稅務及當地宗教、文 化知識。
• Pauline Ngan of Mainland Headwear Holdings - CGCC magazine Issue Jan 2015
• hk couple set up social enterprise hket 25may17 a32
• hket 3jul17 訓修實業, fake hair company, has factory in bangladesh, plan to list in hk
• 金紫荊女企業家協會副主席詹嘉莉（Kelly）早喺廿年前已喺孟加拉設生產基地，目睹該國近年改善基建，又銳意提高國民教育水平。佢早前因貿易戰關係，更決定倍增當地廠房產能，都幾睇好當地發展咁噃。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200324/00176_072.html

- news media

• https://www.banglamail.hk