A migrant worker from Bangladesh working at a salvage yard in Sungei Kadut of Singapore was struck in the neck by a forklift and later died of his wounds
Two Bangladeshis were shot dead in Buffalo of New York yesterday
The amount of foreign airlines’ money stuck in Bangladesh has increased to $323 million from $214 million in less than a year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Malaysia Immigration Department has arrested 49 foreigners including 45 Bangladeshis at a construction site in Perlis on suspicions of overstaying and not having valid travel documents, according to a report in Malaysian media.
Malaysian High Court has set aside a gag order on Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM), which has been supporting Bangladeshi migrants, and a news portal – MKini Dotcom, a news portal that has been reporting on their plights
Malaysia Immigration Department has arrested 49 foreigners including 45 Bangladeshis at a construction site in Perlis on suspicions of overstaying and not having valid travel documents, according to a report in Malaysian media
UN experts today expressed dismay about the situation of Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia, who had travelled there in the hope of employment after engaging in the official labour migration process
State Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Shofiqur Rahman Choudhury today said, as per Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s directive, aspirant migrant workers will get skills training using modern machineries
Md Hasan travelled overnight from his home district Barguna to the capital city recently for biometric data enrollment at the Visa Service Centre for Saudi Arabia, hoping to secure a low-paid job in the Kingdom.
Three Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia were framed in a case that led to their arrests for defying pressure to withdraw complaints they lodged with the police and labour department against their employer
Malaysia has reportedly repatriated 2,530 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers through its Migrant Repatriation Programme launched on March 1
Malaysian police have been prosecuting Bangladesh migrant workers instead of the employers who have confiscated the workers’ passports and failed to provide them with jobs and salaries, alleged the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM).
Although a large number of Bangladeshi migrant workers travel to the Gulf countries for work, there has been little to no government initiative to teach them the languages of the receiving countries.
Malaysian government has extended the deadline for the visa with reference (VDR) application for foreign workers to April 21.
Malaysian government has extended the deadline for the visa with reference (VDR) application for foreign workers to April 21
The dream of a better life in Malaysia has turned into a nightmare for around 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers, each of whom had taken loans of around Tk 5 lakh to reach the country.
Malaysia’s decision to put a freeze on new foreign worker recruitment will adversely affect Bangladesh’s labour migration as the Southeast Asian nation is a large overseas job market for low-skilled Bangladeshi workers.
A Biman plane returned to its departure airport after the pilot fell sick one hour into the flight to Doha on Friday.
Twenty-two migrants including seven children have drowned after a boat capsized off the Turkish coast, local officials said yesterday.
Six Bangladeshi workers who were hired by a Malaysian firm seven months back but were not provided with jobs or salaries lodged a complaint with the Kuala Lumpur police against the company on Tuesday night.
Four Bangladeshi nationals have filed police reports in Malaysia after claiming that their employer had failed to provide them with jobs despite them being in the country for over seven months