Belal Hossain Biplob

Though the International Civil Aviation Organisation's deadline for terminating the use of handwritten passports

They paid fees and service charges to IRIS Corporation for their passports in Saudi Arabia three to four months ago but the Malaysian outsourcing company did not bother to give passports to at least 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates.

More Bangladeshi workers went abroad in the first 10 months of this year than the entire last year, government data show.

The Saudi Arabian government is allegedly putting pressure on Bangladeshi recruiting agencies to send female workers to the kingdom, although women are reluctant to go there for fear of torture by employers.

Around one lakh Bangladeshis go to Saudi Arabia every year to perform hajj and pay private agencies a good amount for better services during the holy ritual.

The scene of the stampede that left hundreds of Hajj pilgrims dead in Saudi Arabia still haunts Shamim Ahmed, 45.

Ferdous Ahmed was waiting in a queue on the third floor of Jamaraat Bridge in Mina to join the symbolic “Stoning of Satan” ritual.

Ismail looked up at the sky and took a deep breath.

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