Bangladeshi migrants

109 more Bangladeshi workers return home

Some 109 more Bangladeshi workers were deported from Saudi Arabia last night.
Saudi Arabia deports 200 Bangladeshi workers

Many of the 200 Bangladeshi workers forcibly who were sent back from Saudi Arabia have said they were deported despite having legal documents.
29 Bangladeshis return home from Libya

Twenty-nine Bangladeshis, who remained stranded in the turbulent Libyan capital Tripoli and its suburbs, returned home early yesterday.
17 stranded Bangladeshis return home

Seventeen of the 64 Bangladeshi migrants, who had been stranded in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for nearly three weeks, return home.
Voyage to Europe: 64 stranded Bangladeshis agree to return home

The 64 Bangladeshi migrants who have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisian coast of Zarzis for 17 days have finally agreed to return home.
64 Bangladeshi migrants agree to return home

The 64 Bangladeshi migrants stranded on Mediterranean Sea agreed to return home, Chiranjib Sarker, director general (DG) of the consular wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
64 Bangladeshi Migrants: Still stranded in Mediterranean

Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sheikh Sekander Ali made a journey on the Mediterranean Sea, around 10 kilometres off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis, to convince 64 Bangladeshi migrants to return to Bangladesh.
Return home, Bangladeshi envoy urges stranded migrants

Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sheikh Sekander Ali has urged stranded Bangladeshi migrants at Mediterranean to return home.
Ensure welfare of returnee migrants

Bangladesh should have an effective reintegration programme for the returnee migrants to ensure their social and economic well-being, say migration and development experts.
Worries grow over jobs in Malaysia

Thousands of Bangladeshis are facing risks of arrest and deportation from Malaysia as its rehiring programme, launched two years ago to legalise undocumented workers, ends today.
A welcome move

Bangladeshi recruiting agencies have welcomed the Malaysian government's move to suspend the 10 companies tasked with hiring Bangladeshi workers.
Kidnap abroad, ransom here

They have been held hostage in Libya and tortured brutally by fellow Bangladeshis. Video clips of their sufferings have then been sent to their relatives by members of the network here asking for ransom.
Irregular Migrants: Bangladesh, EU finalise terms for return

After intense negotiations, Bangladesh and the European Union have finalised a draft agreement on the modalities on the return of irregular Bangladeshi migrants from 28 EU countries.
Around 2,000 Bangladeshis stuck in Turkey

Around 2,000 Bangladeshis, mostly migrants from Iran, Lebanon and Jordan, got stuck in Turkey as their attempts to illegally enter
Huge rush to get registered

Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants, most of them undocumented, in Malaysia are thronging Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur every day for obtaining their passports, birth certificates and other necessary documents to become legal in the Southeast Asian country.
Bangladesh origin couple’s elder son said he killed father: California cops

The older of two sons of a Bangladesh-origin couple in California charged with murdering their parents at their home said he shot his father multiple times, but he did not shoot his mother, according to police.
Mamata for legalising all migrant Bangladeshis

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her government would urge the federal Indian administration to give citizenship to all Bangladeshis living in the state for five years or more.
42 Bangladeshis in Greece complain rights violation

The European Court of Human Rights is to consider a complaint submitted by 42 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece over the country's alleged violation of human rights, the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) has said in a press release.
Amnesty warns over Asia migrant boat crisis

Amnesty International said Bangladeshi migrants and persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar faced "hellish" conditions on trafficking boats.
27 Libya boat capsize survivors return Saturday

Twenty seven Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, are to return home on Saturday.
Libya boat capsize: 27 Bangladeshis may return on Sep 17

A total of 27 Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, may return home on September 17.
The journalists sued by the Thai navy

A court in the southern Thai island of Phuket acquits two journalists of defaming the navy and breaching the Computer Crimes Act.
Bangladeshis, among 26 migrants rescued in Austria

Three children are in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants from Bangladesh, Syria and Afghanistan.
1100 Bangladeshis, Rohingyas die at sea in 18 months

At least 70 people are estimated to have died at sea on ships abandoned in May this year from starvation, dehydration, disease and abuse by the crews, says UN refugee agency.
159 Bangladeshis to be repatriated ‘later’

A total of 159 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Myanmar’s Navy, cannot be brought back to Bangladesh today.
21 ‘bodies of trafficking victims’ to be buried in Malaysia

At least 21 bodies believed to be of human trafficking victims are brought to Kampung Tualang of Pahang state in Malaysia for a mass burial this morning.
150 trafficking victims return from Myanmar

A total of 150 Bangladeshi trafficking victims rescued by Myanmar navy on May 21 finally return home.
3 ‘traffickers’ held, 2 victims rescued in Dhaka

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detain three alleged human traffickers and rescue two victims in separate places in the capital.
Bangladeshi Hindu migrants to get Indian residential permits

Ahead of the assembly elections in Assam, the Narendra Modi government has decided to issue an executive order to help religious minorities from Bangladesh and Pakistan who live in India, to get residential permits.
'Bangladeshi migrants in Indonesia to be sent back soon'

Indonesia expects Bangladeshi migrants who landed on its shores to be sent home in weeks once necessary documentation is done, an immigration official says.