The tourism industry has indeed become a major impetus to growth through its direct and indirect positives.

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

ONE wonders what power is behind the Malaysian firm IRIS that has allowed it to get away with all sorts of failings in meeting its part of the contract in issuing machine readable passports to our expatriate workers.

THIS paper has highlighted the plight of our expatriate workers over the non-issuance of machine readable passports (MRPs) a number of times.