Belal Hossain Biplob

A section of private recruiters and their brokers have become very active to attract jobseekers with the promise of jobs in Malaysia

Despite paying fees to private hajj agencies, around 15,000 Bangladeshis will not be able to perform hajj this year, as the quota of

A recent government report shows rampant irregularities, bribery, illegal money transactions, and mismanagement by a Malaysian

The Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who returned home in the last two days, narrated inhuman physical and mental torture they

All they wanted to achieve was a better future. To bring solvency and happiness to their families, they became desperate to migrate to Malaysia even by any means.

The government has requested Malaysia to let private agencies get involved in recruitment of Bangladeshi jobseekers alongside

They saw their fellows dying one by one from severe thirst, hunger and torture by human traffickers on the sea. Some of them looked half-dead and they never believed they would return home alive.

The Saudi authorities this year stopped issuing Umrah visas to Bangladeshis on the allegation of smuggling of migrants into the

After suffering for one year due to suspension of private money transfer companies' operation in violence-torn Libya, some 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates will now be able to send money to their families using their employers' commercial bank accounts.

Employment dearth forces many Bangladeshi expatriates in Libya to take risky voyage through the Mediterranean Sea for jobs in some European countries, especially Greece and Italy.

As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.

They had had a two weeks' nightmare in the war-torn Yemen. Trapped amid deadly fighting, they witnessed untold miseries of people caused

One of the two Bangladeshi returnees who were abducted by unidentified terrorists in Libya talks to The Daily Star about their ordeal.

The first batch of Bangladeshi migrants to work in palm gardens in Sarawak province of Malaysia may reach there by the first week of

About 30 lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers could lose their jobs and face deportation as they would be carrying the old passports

The government considers relocating the Bangladeshi workers from Libya to other North African countries if the situation there