Dhaka, April 25 -- The British Business Group (BBG) at a meeting on Thursday discussed how trade could help achieve Bangladesh's higher growth plans.

The meeting was co-hosted by Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner, and Francois de Maricourt, the Chair of the BBG and CEO of HSBC Bangladesh.

Planning Minister MA Mannan was the guest of honour and chief speaker at the meeting attended by members of the BBG and Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem.

Minister Mannan said the Prime Minister's first priority is the country's development and business is part of her strategy for delivering that.

"The government's door is open to business. It wants to hear from firms where the bottlenecks are and it'll ...