Tk 30,000cr lost to illegal migrations in 2022 alone
19 October 2025, 18:14 PM
Business Plus / Between dreams and debt
10 October 2025, 18:00 PM
29 Bangladeshis deported from 3 EU countries
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh still locked out of key labour markets
21 September 2025, 18:10 PM
‘No agreement signed to enable 10,000 Bangladeshi students to work in Malaysia’
25 August 2025, 12:19 PM
Two Bangladeshis charged with terrorism-related offences in Malaysia
15 August 2025, 14:03 PM
News Analysis / CA’s Malaysia tour boosts Dhaka-KL ties
14 August 2025, 19:00 PM
Migration rights groups alarmed over possible clearing of Malaysia recruitment syndicate suspects
12 August 2025, 16:18 PM
Yunus hails expat Bangladeshis’ role in driving economic recovery
12 August 2025, 14:22 PM
Bangladesh, Italy working to expedite process of pending work visa applications
11 August 2025, 14:45 PM
Migration to Malaysia: No progress after MoU
Bangladesh is missing out on a large labour market in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur stopped taking in any fresh Bangladeshi migrants over irregularities by recruiting agencies in 2018.
2 June 2022, 02:30 AM
Britain to offer work visas to graduates from world's top universities
Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world's best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to attract the "best and brightest" workers.
30 May 2022, 12:55 PM
Qatar says will hire more Bangladeshi workers ahead of Football World Cup 2022
The Qatar government has said it will hire workers from Bangladesh in security, hospitality and transport sectors ahead of the Football World Cup 2022.
20 May 2022, 18:03 PM
Bangladesh requests Maldives to recruit new workers
Bangladesh has requested Maldives to recruit new workers from it and regularise undocumented Bangladeshi migrants soon.
20 May 2022, 10:20 AM
Global efforts needed to address migrants’ rights: Shahriar Alam
Bangladesh called for enhanced global solidarity to address gaps in migrants’ rights and their protection.
19 May 2022, 10:04 AM
162 return home from strife-torn Libya
A group of 162 Bangladeshis returned home from war-torn Libya yesterday under a voluntary repatriation programme coordinated by the Bangladesh government and International Organisation for Migration.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM
162 Bangladeshi migrants return home from Libya
As many as 162 Bangladeshi migrants – who were in various detention centres in Libya -- have returned home this morning (May 12, 2022).
12 May 2022, 10:00 AM
123 Bangladeshi workers leave for South Korea
A batch of 123 Bangladeshi expatriate workers left for South Korea today.
10 May 2022, 07:36 AM
Illegal migration to europe: Desperate trips on deadly routes
Kabir Matubbar (not his real name) took an illegal route to Italy from Bangladesh in 2015. The trip included a daring boat journey in the Mediterranean Sea from Libya.
6 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Migrants’ eid this year: Hope back after Covid horror
After a severe dip in his earnings in the last two years of the pandemic, Hajrat Ali, a migrant worker in Malaysia, is very happy this time as he sent home an additional amount for his family’s Eid celebration.
29 April 2022, 18:00 PM
'25-agency syndicate' hampering labour export to Malaysia: Recruiters
Alleged malpractice by "a 25-agency syndicate" is affecting Bangladesh's prospects in the Malaysian migrant market, according to certain recruiting agencies and former leaders of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruitment Agencies (Baira).
27 April 2022, 17:24 PM
‘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