Newly appointed overseas employment Minister Nurul Islam urges countrymen not to deal with brokers for employment in Malaysia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is passing a difficult time, amid allegations of a financial scam. In early July, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) carried reports that $700 million was transferred through a complex web of transactions to Najib's bank accounts in Kuala Lumpur in 2013.

France is to conduct air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370.

Malaysia and Bangladesh agree to work together towards a permanent solution of irregular movement of people in the Indian Ocean.

Malaysia sends team to the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion to determine whether debris which washed up there is from missing flight MH370.

A shocking video seemingly showing a mother fall to her death beneath an escalator in front of her son has appeared online.

David Cameron is expected to offer Indonesia and Malaysia support in tackling Islamist extremists - their "common enemy" - during a four-day trade mission.

Russia is seeking a compromise despite its resistance against the establishment of the international criminal tribunal against those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Twenty five more Bangladeshi human trafficking victims have returned home from Indonesia, four months after they were rescued from the Andaman Sea.

Customs officials seized nearly 1,000 turtles at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today.

We are at a loss to understand how the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry has, for the third year in a row, failed to send the expected number of workers to Malaysia.

The US is upgrading Malaysia from lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centres, a move that could smooth way for an ambitious US-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation and 11 other countries.

Malaysian employers will bear all the expenditures while recruiting manpower from Bangladesh, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain says.

A Malaysian task force freezes six bank accounts following allegations that Prime Minister Najib Razak received nearly $700m in public funds.

Southeast Asian countries launch a fund to share the cost of hosting human trafficking victims, after a regional migrant crisis saw victims ping-ponged between countries reluctant to accept them.

Malaysia's recent incidents of strict enforcement of dress codes at government buildings is due to rise of intolerant attitudes among certain Muslims imposing Islamic values on Malaysians of other faiths say former civil servants.

The expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry says that Malaysia announced to recruit 500,000 workers from Bangladesh in the next six months of 2015.

At least 21 bodies believed to be of human trafficking victims are brought to Kampung Tualang of Pahang state in Malaysia for a mass burial this morning.

Airport police detain a man along with four bars of gold, weighing a kilogram each, at Dhaka’s Hajrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Thirty-seven more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who are rescued by Myanmar navy on May 21, returned to the country.