Nearly 200 workers then began a strike on Friday, he said, requesting not to be named for fear of backlash.
LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has said Malaysia in principle has decided to recruit a large number of Bangladeshi workers in the days to come
Asif Nazrul, adviser for law and expatriates’ welfare ministries, has given his contact information to some Bangladeshis working in Malaysia, urging them to contact him if they face any trouble.
Remittance inflow in the first ten months and eleven days of this fiscal year surpassed $25 billion, breaking all previous records.
"We, the recruiters, stand united for the interest of the country and its people"
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday informed the government of the progress of visa issuance for Bangladeshis to the gulf nation, following sustained diplomatic engagement between the two countries.
"Are you Akram's mother? How do I tell you that Akram is no more…?".Mobina Begum, mother of Akram Hossain, a migrant worker who was forcefully made to fight for Russia by human traffickers in its war against Ukraine, got a call from his fellow Bangladeshi fighter from Kishoreganj on Thursd
They will arrive in Dhaka on a Thai Airways flight, said a press release
Victims of the ongoing Italy visa crisis have sought the intervention of Prof Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government, to resolve the crisis.
The migration of Bangladeshi female workers abroad has been declining over the past two years since 2023.
The number of Bangladeshis crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy doubled in the first two months this year compared to the same period last year.
The deceased is Md Gias Uddin Mia, 55, a resident of Mrigi village of Faridpur Sadar upazila
Sohag Mia, a 28-year-old resident of Kalipur Dakshinpara in Bhairab municipality, Kishoreganj, has reportedly died in Libya while in the custody of human traffickers
The inflow was 82.46 percent higher than the same period last year, according to industry insiders.
Remittance inflows surged by around 78 percent year-on-year in the first 19 days of March as migrant workers sent more money home to relatives ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious occasion in the country.
As the Bangladeshi embassy in Libya struggles to identify the bodies of the 23 migrants who have washed ashore in the northern part of the country, families back home are desperately searching for their missing loved ones.
Twenty-three bodies, believed to be of Bangladeshis, have washed up on Libya’s shores, with many more feared missing, Bangladeshi Ambassador to Libya Abul Hasnat Mohammad Khairul Bashar said in a live stream on Facebook yesterday.
Medieval Bengal’s links to the Straits world, a narrow stretch of water connecting to Southeast Asia and beyond, are overlooked. This world saw not only ocean-going vessels, but also coastal and localised traffic which, like riverine transport, has gone largely unrecorded.
Migrants sent home $2.18 billion in the first month of 2025
The Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia has issued a warning regarding fraudulent activities involving the illegal recruitment of Bangladeshi female workers to Malaysia
Behind this staggering number lies a grim reality: young lives extinguished far too soon, leaving behind grieving families and communities
The number of bodies of Bangladeshi migrants arriving from abroad rose to a record high in 2024, with a total of 4,813 corpses received by the authorities last year.
The number is a record high, reveals statistics from Wage Earners’ Welfare Board
The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department arrested 176 illegal immigrants, including 71 Bangladeshi nationals, during a raid in the Jalan Alor area of Bukit Bintang on Wednesday night, reports Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama.
Frustration is mounting among the over 18,000 Bangladeshis who missed a deadline to fly to Malaysia for work around eight months ago.
Nearly 200 workers then began a strike on Friday, he said, requesting not to be named for fear of backlash.
LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has said Malaysia in principle has decided to recruit a large number of Bangladeshi workers in the days to come
Asif Nazrul, adviser for law and expatriates’ welfare ministries, has given his contact information to some Bangladeshis working in Malaysia, urging them to contact him if they face any trouble.
Remittance inflow in the first ten months and eleven days of this fiscal year surpassed $25 billion, breaking all previous records.
"We, the recruiters, stand united for the interest of the country and its people"
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday informed the government of the progress of visa issuance for Bangladeshis to the gulf nation, following sustained diplomatic engagement between the two countries.
"Are you Akram's mother? How do I tell you that Akram is no more…?".Mobina Begum, mother of Akram Hossain, a migrant worker who was forcefully made to fight for Russia by human traffickers in its war against Ukraine, got a call from his fellow Bangladeshi fighter from Kishoreganj on Thursd
The number of Bangladeshis crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy doubled in the first two months this year compared to the same period last year.
The deceased is Md Gias Uddin Mia, 55, a resident of Mrigi village of Faridpur Sadar upazila
