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Facebook pages moved closer to replacing small business websites Tuesday, announcing features designed to make it easier for shops to hawk their wares. Changes to business pages at the leading social network included raising the profile of features that allow customers to take actions such as booking an appointment or browsing, and allowed for more customized approaches to layouts. “We’re ...

Dubai property developers are still turning out some larger-than-life projects even though prices are heading south again after clawing back a good chunk of their losses in the 2008 crash. The Gulf emirate’s annual Cityscape property fair opened Tuesday with developers foreseeing price declines of about 15 percent this year, yet confident there would be no return to the days ...

A wave of confidence swept through Asian markets Wednesday, led by a five percent surge in Tokyo and extending the previous day’s broad global advance, raising hopes that recent turmoil may be coming to an end. With investors in a risk-on mood, assets considered safe bets retreated, with the yen sagging against the dollar and euro, the Australian dollar recovering ...

The Gold locket handover ceremony for Lux’s “Find the Gold Locket” contest took place on Sunday (September 6) in Rajshahi. 37 winners from Rajshahi  in Bangladesh found gold lockets in this contest. For centuries, two ingredients in enhancing women’s beauty have been fragrance and gold jewelries. For this reason, Lux, the most loved beauty soap of Bangladeshi women, introduced the ...

Samsung brings Eid Ul Adha ‘Super Six’ offers including free Galaxy Tab 3, rice cooker, upto BDT 25,000 off, instant cash discounts upto BDT 10,000 on different models of refrigerator, TV, oven and washing machines of Samsung. The refrigerators of Samsung FSR & SBS models are offering free Galaxy Tab 3, free Rice Cooker has been offered with Samsung RT33 ...

“After China, Bangladesh is the largest manufacturers of apparel products and reputed international brands source from here,” said Lisa of Changzhou Runlai Textile Co. Ltd. “The country has enormous potentials to become leader in world jeans market with many good factories and buying houses.” Lisa said considering all the aspects and growth pattern, Bangladesh is China’s largest destination for denim ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: After a successful 23 years of serving in travel and tourism industry, British Bangladeshi enterprise Air Express opened up a new project specialising in Umrah.  The inauguration of this new project ‘gohaji.com’ was held in LMC Hall in East London on Friday 21 August.  Senior officials from Al-Hosam, the Saudi associate company of Air Express and ...

Bangla Mirror desk :: Indian restaurant owners have called on David Cameron to introduce short-term work visas so that they can fly experienced staff to the UK to plug a curry chef shortage that is forcing closures across the country. Enam Ali, who founded the British Curry Awards 10 years ago, is preparing a submission to the Prime Minister and ...

India will seek damages of 6.39 billion rupees ($99.3 million) from Swiss group Nestle after a food scare involving reports of excess lead in the firm’s popular Maggi noodles forced a nationwide recall, a government official said on Tuesday. Nestle, which has been accused of unfair trade practices, would be the first foreign firm to be asked to pay damages ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: The launch of online ordering service provider, Chef Online Smart Restaurant Solutions, was announced on Monday 10th August at Crowne Plaza London Docklands to a guest list of media, restaurateurs and key figures from the UK hospitality industry.  Hosted by LBC presenter, Lisa Aziz, the evening marked the first formal event to unveil online ordering plaftorm, Chef Online ...