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Getting expatriates involved in country’s development

The government is going to mark National Expatriates Day for the first time today with the objective of honouring millions of Bangladeshis living abroad and involving them more in the country’s development.
29 December 2023, 18:00 PM

Enhance services for them: speakers

The government needs to ease and increase its different services for the expatriates including those related to remittance as their contributions are crucial for the country’s economy, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.
29 December 2023, 18:00 PM

Malaysian cop suspended over arbitrary detention, torture of Bangladeshi journo

Malaysian police yesterday suspended a cop for arbitrarily detaining a Bangladeshi journalist in Malaysia and allegedly handing him over to a gang that tortured him
30 November 2023, 17:20 PM

Rights worker writes to UN on Bangladeshi migrants’ dire situation in Malaysia

A migrant rights worker in Malaysia has written to the UN about the "dire" situation of hundreds of Bangladeshi expatriate workers allegedly struggling in debt bondage and are jobless in the Southeast Asian country
30 October 2023, 06:16 AM

Bangladesh to send more workers to Libya

Signs MoU with North African country
26 October 2023, 15:26 PM
10 October 2023, 16:47 PM

Bangladeshi dies after falling into machine in Malaysian factory

A Bangladeshi worker was killed after falling into a mixing machine at a factory in Klang, Malaysia today
8 October 2023, 15:51 PM

Bangladeshi missions asked to celebrate NRB Day in grand manner: Momen

The government has declared December 30 "NRB Day" to resolve issues affecting non-resident Bangladeshis and encourage their contributions to the country, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said in London yesterday.
4 October 2023, 08:59 AM

Momen urges diaspora community to counter propaganda against Bangladesh

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has called upon the Bangladeshi diaspora to play active role in countering misinformation and propaganda with facts and figures against their land of origin
25 September 2023, 13:54 PM

Manama embassy comes under e-passport service

The Bangladesh embassy in Manama on Friday became the 30th overseas mission of Bangladesh to have e-passport service available for expatriates
12 August 2023, 18:41 PM

Scarborough Folk Fest 2023: A celebration of diversity, culture, and community

This festival promises a one-of-a-kind community experience, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds under one harmonious celebration of folk music.
21 July 2023, 05:47 AM

Ensuring digital services for migrant workers

The government’s Information and Communication Technology division will work with the "Ami Probashi" app to provide different digital services to migrant workers, said State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak today
21 June 2023, 14:34 PM

Malaysian palm oil firms 'not hiring Bangladeshis over recruitment concerns'

Some of Malaysia's largest palm oil producers are not hiring workers from Bangladesh because of concerns over exploitative practices during recruitment, companies and labour consultants say..Planters in the world's second-largest palm oil producer have in recent years stepped up efforts to
12 May 2023, 09:12 AM

4 chartered flights to evacuate 555 Bangladeshis from Sudan to Jeddah

Three of the flights will fly today and the other one tomorrow. From Jeddah, the Bangladeshis will be flown home by commercial flights.
10 May 2023, 06:58 AM

Thousands of migrants, including some Bangladeshis, stranded in Niger's desert

Every week hundreds more migrants thrown out of Algeria end up here in Assamaka, the first village on the Niger border
6 April 2023, 07:55 AM

Women's network in Sydney working to battle stigma against mental illness in Bangladeshi communities

Mental illness and the disabilities associated with it has long had a strong stigma in countries like Bangladesh. The pandemic only served to further highlight such problems.
4 April 2023, 14:53 PM

Australian detention centre: Bangladeshi refugees sew lips in protest

Two Bangladeshi nationals who have been detained in Nauru for nearly a decade by Australian authorities, recently sewed their lips together in protest..A five-hour plane journey to the northeast of Australia, Nauru is a small islandic nation. Australia has used Nauru since July 2013 to det
1 March 2023, 15:29 PM

Writ seeks compensation for families of 714 deceased female migrants

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking directives to provide adequate compensation to the family members of the 714 deceased female migrant workers who died in different countries.
6 February 2023, 14:23 PM

4 Bangladeshis killed in Qatar road crash

Four Bangladeshi expatriates were killed and two injured in a road accident in Qatar on Friday, according to the sources at Bangladesh embassy there.
15 January 2023, 05:56 AM

Bangladeshi cook charged for killing mental health patient in Malaysia

A Bangladeshi cook was charged in the magistrate's court of Malaysia's Kuala Kubu Bharu town yesterday with the murder of a male resident of a mental health care centre in Bukit Beruntung, in December last year.
7 January 2023, 07:10 AM