report in Daily FT, Mar 18, 2023Consumers remain very pessimistic, with a small recovery in current buying conditions as per the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) February 2023 update of its Consumer Confidence Indices. Generated from its Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS), it revealed that consumer confidence, which was already deeply pessimistic, continued to worsen in February, with the Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) declining 3 points to reach 12. The ICS is the…
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by Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, Feb 23, 2023 at 8:16 AMFormer Afghan president Hamid Karzai met with Markus Potzel, the UN Secretary General’s Deputy Special Representative to Afghanistan, and they discussed the current situation of Afghanistan and the reopening of schools and universities for girls. Hamid Karzai tweeted that in the meeting they discussed the need for a national dialogue to ensure lasting peace in the country. “Both sides emphasized reopening schools and universities…
report in Daily Asian Age, Dhaka, Jan 16, 2023Sharp price rises of newsprint and white papers of both local make and imports have put Bangladesh’s publishing industry and other consumers in a quandary, as one of fallouts from the current global turmoil. Prices of all kinds of newsprint papers have made a quantum leap by almost 100 per cent in a year, when things started getting back to normal with the pandemic loosening its grips,…