DHAKA: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said large Japanese investments are coming to Bangladesh.

AHM Mustafa Kamal said: “We’re looking forward to them (Japanese investors) for making future investments in Bangladesh as very big investment will come up from Japan.” 

The Finance Minister was briefing reporters after a big delegation of Japanese investors including representatives from Japanese large companies held a meeting with Kamal and concerned government secretaries at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Thursday (November 16).

Japanese ambassador to Dhaka Naoki Ito led the Japanese delegation.

To facilitate Japanese investors, the Finance Minister said the government has given a special economic zone at Araihazar in Narayanganj.

He said the meeting discussed various issues as well as about the progress of the Japanese funded projects and how to move forward those in a speedy manner.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Financial Institutions Division Senior Secretary Md Ashadul Islam, Finance Division Secretary Abdur Rouf Talukder and ERD Secretary Monowar Ahmed, among others, attended the meeting.

BDST: 1858 HRS, NOV 16, 2019

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