35 Bangladeshis return home after job dismissals in Russia
18 January 2026, 20:40 PM
NRB
Banks asked to settle inward remittances in a day
8 January 2026, 11:03 AM
Business
Labour migration up 12% despite challenges
7 January 2026, 18:00 PM
Migration
Highest ever remittance came in 2025
1 January 2026, 12:42 PM
Business
'Bangladesh has become quite famous globally for submission of fake documents'
17 December 2025, 11:36 AM
Migration
Bangladeshi survivor's first-hand account of Mediterranean migrant boat capsize
8 December 2025, 16:41 PM
Migration
Female migration declines amid abuse, unsafe conditions
5 December 2025, 20:47 PM
Migration
When American dream turns into a nightmare
1 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Undocumented
Remittance jumps 31% in November
1 December 2025, 12:39 PM
Business
Labour market in Malaysia: Strict conditions raise fear of syndication
19 November 2025, 18:31 PM
Migration
‘Consider past factors behind closure of Malaysian market to Bangladeshi workers’
Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM) today called upon both Bangladesh and Malaysia governments to avert repeat of past mistakes including “syndication” that led to closure of the Malaysian market to Bangladeshi workers.
27 April 2022, 12:09 PM
Ensuring safe female migration
To establish equal rights for female migrant workers, a national-level alliance of rights groups working on women empowerment was launched yesterday.
21 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Body of migrant worker arrives home from Serbia
The dead body of a Bangladeshi migrant worker from Manikganj who died in Serbia last month, arrived home last night.
16 April 2022, 19:39 PM
Migrant workers: Dedicated centre to help ease their hassles
The government has established a dedicated centre for migrant workers to reduce the hassles they face while migrating abroad and returning home.
15 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Ethical recruitment is the answer
Cooperation among different stakeholders at both sending and receiving ends is required to ensure ethical recruitment practices in labour migration, said speakers at a consultation meeting yesterday.
24 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Migrants Abroad: Investigate their unnatural deaths
Bangladeshi migrant rights activists and researchers have demanded that authorities investigate the unnatural deaths of migrant workers in the destination countries, including those in the Gulf.
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Plight of migrant workers begin at home: Expatriates’ Welfare Minister
Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today said migrant workers’ plight starts here at home.
20 March 2022, 13:25 PM
Death toll now 20 from Mediterranean shipwreck off Tunisian coast
The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia on Friday has risen to 20 people, most of them Syrians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a civil protection official told Reuters on Saturday, the latest migrant ship disaster off Tunisia.
19 March 2022, 17:23 PM
Migrant dies in Serbia
Badal Khandaker went to Serbia in November last year with hopes of a well-paying job that would ensure a better life for his family back home.
11 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Malaysia vetting 200,000 applications for Bangladeshi workers
The Malaysian human resources ministry has received 200,000 applications for Bangladeshi foreign workers, which are presently being vetted, said M Saravanan.
10 March 2022, 06:34 AM
At least 9 migrants drown in Mediterranean off Tunisia coast
At least nine African migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy on Monday, while another nine were rescued by the navy, the defence ministry said.
28 February 2022, 19:31 PM
Malaysia gets over one lakh applications for migrant workers since Feb 15
The Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources has received 111,807 applications from foreigners applying to work in the country since the day the facility was inaugurated on February 15 until yesterday, reports Free Malaysia Today (FMT).
21 February 2022, 10:42 AM
MoU to be signed to send workers to Libya: Ministry
Bangladesh and Libya have shown interest in signing a memorandum of understanding on sending Bangladeshi workers to the North African country.
20 February 2022, 10:55 AM
Greece signs MoU to recruit 4,000 Bangladeshi workers each year
Bangladesh and Greece today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see 4,000 Bangladeshi workers migrating to the European Union country each year in a regular and orderly manner.
9 February 2022, 15:05 PM
Recruitment in Malaysia: ‘Inform the people, be transparent’
Bangladesh and Malaysia must release details of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) they signed on December 19, 2021 to recruit Bangladeshis in Malaysia, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Transparency International Malaysia (TIM) yesterday.
8 February 2022, 18:00 PM
5 Migrant destinations: Pandemic shoots down labour export
Bangladesh’s efforts to send workers to five countries have suffered a blow as those nations adopted restrictive measures before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Most migrants on boat were Bangladeshis
Some 273 out of 287 migrants recently found on a boat in the Mediterranean have primarily been identified as Bangladeshis, according to the Bangladesh embassy in Rome.
29 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Covid detection before trip: Migrants forced to cancel flights
Some 550 Bangladeshi expatriate workers, including 200 UAE-bound ones, are forced to cancel their flights every day at the last moment, said sources at Dhaka airport.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM
550 expat workers cancelling flights daily at last moment after testing Covid-19 positive
Around 550 Bangladeshi expatriate workers, including 200 UAE-bound workers, are forced to cancel their flights every day at the last moment after being diagnosed with Covid-19, sources at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) said.
28 January 2022, 16:23 PM
Risk of forced labour: Malaysian MP Santiago for closer look at Bangladeshi recruiting agencies
A Malaysian lawmaker has called upon the country’s government to take a closer look and delve deeper into the 25 Bangladeshi recruiting agencies and their 10 sub-agents who have been allowed to recruit workers from Bangladesh to Malaysia.
28 January 2022, 13:43 PM