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Tobacco companies heavily incentivized to keep Designated Smoking Area in Dhaka city’s restaurants to display tobacco products

Tobacco companies apply various tactics and heavily incentivize to keep the Designated Smoking Area (DSA) in Dhaka city’s restaurant using…

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Big tobacco applies ill tactics to encourage displaying tobacco products to lure the teens

Taking advantage of loopholes in the Smoking and Usage of Tobacco Products (Control) Act 2005, tobacco companies resort to ill…

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Bangladeshi-American Durreen Shahnaz now on Forbes 50 Over 50 list

Earlier, she was honoured with the Oslo Business for Peace Award in 2017 and the Asia Society gave her Asia…

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Tobacco product display and its interference with tobacco control law

Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE), a rights-based research and advocacy organization organized a sharing meeting to disseminate the…

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Launch of “Bangladesh Investor Booklet 2021″

Dhaka, 29 August 2021: The Nordic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) in Bangladesh, organized the launch of "Bangladesh Investor…

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Brexit: EC President rejects Johnson’s bid to renegotiate Irish protocol

A German government spokesperson tweeted: “Is it too much to expect the to stand by what it has negotiated, signed…

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Demand for implementation of e-waste management rules in Bangladesh

E-waste poses serious threat to public health and environment. Demand for proper implementation of newly adopted e-waste management rules has…

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