A three-day long remitters’ festival will begin in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on October 14 to encourage expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittance through legal channel.

Expatriate Bangladeshi businessmen and bankers in Oman have urged to bring hundi traders under the law to increase remittance flow through the prevention of this illegal channel of money transfer.

The decomposed body of Sohel Mia, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Malaysia, was recovered yesterday 11 days after his abduction.

The four-day long international food and beverage fair titled, “Eighth Selangor International Expo”, has begun in Malaysia. For the first time, Bangladesh has participated in the fair along with 23 other countries of the world. The Bangladesh Pavilion has allocated free of cost stalls for the Bangladeshis with special importance.

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.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a man in Barguna in connection with a case filed over the abduction of Bangladeshi migrant worker Sohel Mia in Malaysia.

Jalal Uddin Selim, an expatriate Bangladeshi, has been conferred the “Dato Sri” title in Malaysia.

A 39-year-old Bangladeshi expatriate, who was abducted in Malaysia on September 25, 2022, was not released even after the payment of Tk 5 lakh ransom.

An Abu Dhabi-bound flight of Air Arabia made an emergency landing at the Dhaka airport this evening due to technical problems in one of its engines.

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.

“Showcase Bangladesh” is going to be held in Malaysia for the sixth time in December.

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.    

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.

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

Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday advised patients suffering from conjunctivitis to come to the airport with a doctor’s prescription and necessary medicines before traveling abroad.

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

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.

More than 1,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrants have enlisted their names at the Bangladesh embassy in Greece for a regularisation process of the Greek government, which is yet to start.

In a show of utter negligence, a senior pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines did not operate scheduled flights on the Dhaka-Chattogram-Muscat-Sylhet-Dhaka route.

Nine out of 15 female cockpit crew members of Biman have alleged that their bosses in training and scheduling departments discriminate and harass them so much so that it even jeopardised flight safety on at least one occasion.