Government must explore ways to ensure their safety

1.54 lakh or 33.03 percent of the returnee expatriates were from Chattogram division followed by 1.32 lakh or 28.48 percent from Dhaka

Three Bangladeshi men have been arrested in Shah Alam, the capital of Malaysian state Selangor, for allegedly issuing and selling fake work permits to their fellow countrymen since last October.

Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia has taken an initiative to issue passports to Bangladeshi expatriates in Penang and Johor Bahru in the country under special arrangements.

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.

In a major setback for many Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to return to their workplaces in Italy, the European country has put restriction on entry of passengers from Bangladesh into its territory till October 5.

Bangladesh is going to repatriate at least 28,849 Bangladeshi migrants from Middle Eastern countries where they were either in the jail, deportation camps, or jobless, says Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

Three Bangladeshi expatriates are killed and another injured in a road accident at Northern State Parkway in Long Island of New York, US.

Two Bangladeshi expatriates, an Imam and his assistant, were killed by an assailant outside a mosque in Queens in New York City on August 15.

The Malaysian government will announce a decision on the intake of foreign workers soon, says Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The government officially requests the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to extend its deadline by two years for issuing Machine Readable Passport (MRP) for Bangladeshi nationals who are still carrying handwritten passports in different countries across the world.

A parliamentary body lambastes the authorities concerned for the delay in issuing machine readable passports among all Bangladeshi expatriates on time.