Man left behind by brokers in forest while migrating to Greece now missing

On the way from Turkey to Greece, the brokers and fellow companions left him alone at a forest. Since then, an immigrant Bangladeshi youth named Sagar Khan has been missing.
30 October 2022

52 migrants including 16 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia

Malaysia's immigration authorities have arrested 52 immigrants, including 16 Bangladeshis, for not having valid documents.
21 October 2022

Mobile app launched to send remittance from Malaysia

The “City Remit” mobile app has been launched to make it easier for expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittances through the legal route in Malaysia.
17 October 2022

22 dead, dozens missing as 2 migrant ships capsize in Mediterranean

Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the wind-tossed waters off a Greek island Thursday as the death toll from the separate sinkings of two migrant boats rose to 22, with many still missing.
6 October 2022

Remittance lowest in seven months

Despite a surge in the outflow of migrant workers, remittances to Bangladesh declined 11 percent year-on-year to $1.54 billion in September, the lowest in seven months.
3 October 2022

Manpower export to Middle East surges

The number of Bangladeshi workers who headed to the Middle East countries in search of jobs surged 177 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2022, official figures showed.    
2 October 2022

Presumed dead in Thai jungle: 2 photos and hope rekindled

Hearing the news of the mass graves discovered in Thailand in 2015, family members of three men who had left Bangladesh two years ago thought they were among those buried.
29 September 2022

KL to take 10k workers under G2G system

The Malaysian government has made a new move to hire Bangladeshi workers under a government-to-government arrangement as the
28 September 2022

Moldovaian visa issued to 28 Bangladeshi workers in 1st phase: Momen

After long negotiations with different stakeholders in Moldova, they have agreed to recruit Bangladeshi workers.
24 September 2022

On their way back home

Over 230 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers have been in the pipeline to return home from crisis-hit Lebanon, under a voluntary repatriation programme of the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut.
22 September 2022

Fiji to hire more workers from Bangladesh

Fiji has emerged as a potential destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers with job opportunities opening up for foreign workers in various sectors including construction, garment and agriculture.
16 September 2022

Finding hope in Maldives

About 16,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrant workers have so far been regularised in the Maldives under a programme of the Maldivian economic development ministry, according to the Bangladesh High Commission in Malé.
13 September 2022

Female migrants in Saudi Arabia: Lure of good days lands them in nightmare

When Julekha Begum left the country in mid-February for a housekeeper job in Saudi Arabia, she promised her seven-year-old son of better days.
11 September 2022

573 workers left for Malaysia in August

As many as 573 migrant workers have gone to Malaysia for employment in August, shows latest data of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training.
8 September 2022

Ethnic minorities to get jobs in Korea

Persons belonging to ethnic minority communities in Bangladesh will be getting employment opportunities as “seasonal” workers in South Korea’s agriculture and fisheries sectors.
7 September 2022

‘Raped, blackmailed and cheated’ in Mauritius

Desperate to lift her family out of poverty, Roksana (real name withheld) flew to Mauritius three years ago to work as a sewing machine operator. 
2 September 2022

Remittance crosses $2-billion mark for second consecutive month

Bangladesh’s remittance earnings crossed the $2-billion mark for the second consecutive month in August.
1 September 2022

BSF detains 5 Bangladeshis in Assam

Five Bangladeshi nationals were detained in northeastern Indian state Assam’s Dhubri by the Border Security Force along the border with Bangladesh on charges of entering the country without valid papers, a BSF official said today (August 29, 2022).
29 August 2022

Govt plans to send 8.10 lakh workers abroad in 2022-23

The government has worked out a plan to send 8.10 lakh Bangladeshi workers abroad and provide skills development training to 5.20 lakh in the current fiscal year (2022-23).
22 August 2022

Romania labour market opening up

Romania has emerged as a destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers.
16 August 2022