More than five months have passed since the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Greece on sending workers to the European country, but the fresh recruitment is yet to begin.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has appreciated Bangladesh’s overall migration management and gradual prevention of irregular migration enabling regular migration.

The government yesterday gave recruitment approval to two agencies for sending migrant workers to Malaysia amid allegations of attempts to create a “syndicate of 25 agencies”.

Sixteen people are dead after a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of The Bahamas, authorities said on Sunday, amid a continuing wave of sea migration toward the United States.

Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions.

Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months this year.

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has guaranteed that Bangladeshi workers there will not face any exploitation or discrimination.

Malaysia has started the process of hiring workers from Bangladesh without settling the controversy surrounding the syndicate of 25 agencies chosen to conduct the recruitment.

Parul Begum (name changed), a single mother of two, thought she caught a break when she got the offer to work as domestic help in Qatar for a monthly salary of Tk 40,000.

The government has set Tk 78,990 as maximum migration cost at Bangladesh end that a worker will have to bear to secure employment in Malaysia.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has started investigation into the allegations of syndication in the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian country.

Bangladesh government today launched Migration Compact Taskforce (Taskforce) aimed at facilitating the implementation, follow-up, and review of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).

In 2021, at least 788 people lost their lives during migration in Asia, with the vast majority of deaths (72.5 percent) being recorded in its second half, according to the International Organisation for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP).

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad today informed the parliament that more than 5 lakh Bangladeshi expatriate workers returned to the country after losing their jobs since the onset of Covid-19 pandemic.

A Malaysian MP and two migrant rights bodies have asked the southeast Asian country’s Human Resources Minister M Saravanan to explain his decision to allow only 25 Bangladeshi agencies to recruit workers for Malaysia, daily Malay Mail reported today.

The issue of recruiting foreign workers to Malaysia from three countries including Bangladesh, is expected to be resolved soon, said the country’s Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan.

The Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources has received 200,000 applications online from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Cambodia to recruit foreign workers in various sectors in the country.

Malaysian government will cancel the quotas given to employers who cut migrant workers' salaries to cover costs of bringing them into in the country, Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan said.

The Malaysian government will decide which Bangladeshi recruiting agencies it will pick when hiring workers from the country, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said yesterday.

The demand for Bangladeshi workers is not as high as it used to be as some sectors have turned to other nationalities for their manpower needs, says Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Saravanan.