Recruitment from Bangladesh: Malaysia opens doors, finally
Malaysia will soon open its market for Bangladeshi workers, ending a freeze of more than three years, but concerns remain over the syndication of a few agents and the high cost of migration --...
International Migrants Day: Migration cost high, pay low
Shahidul Mia (not his real name) spent about Tk 4 lakh to get employed in Saudi Arabia last year.
Int’l Labour Migration: Majority of districts falling behind
Although Bangladesh has seen a rise in overseas jobs over the years, in majority of the districts, international labour migration is quite low, largely due to lack of recruiting activities in those...
Chaos all day long
Over 1,500 passengers, who need a Covid-19 negative certificate six hours prior to flying to the UAE, start crowding the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport every day since morning.
Remittance Inflow: Hundi, layoffs pull it down
The worrying dip in remittance flow in recent months is the result of a reemergence of illegal channels of money transfer after the coronavirus restrictions were lifted, a sharp decline in overseas...
Female returnee workers: Abused there, stigmatised here
Afroza Begum (not her real name) worked for three-and-a-half-years as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia.
On runway of recovery: Pandemic-hit aviation sector turning around
Following a prolonged rough ride, driven by the pandemic, the country’s aviation sector is finally turning around as flight operations and the number of passengers flying from the Dhaka airport...
Labour migration in slow lane
Sending migrant workers abroad continued to remain inadequate amid the pandemic compared to what the situation was during pre-pandemic times, which posed a challenge for the labour migration sector.
Migrants Going Abroad: Their pleas finally heard
Mohiuddin Belal, an engineer based in UAE, heaved a sigh of relief on August 4 when he heard that his host country had lifted the flight ban from Bangladesh after about three months.
Migrant deaths go unexplained, ignored
Mohammed Suman Miah died in Qatar on April 29, 2020 at the age of 34.