Bangladeshi migrant worker

‘One repatriation, one recruitment’

Bangladesh and Italy are working on a new mechanism under which the European country will hire one Bangladeshi worker for every irregular migrant repatriated from Italy.

125 Women migrant workers: Most returned home with dire illnesses

Rahima (not her real name) left Bangladesh for Oman to work as a domestic help and support her five-member family after her husband passed away.

Time to set a new benchmark for migrant welfare

Migrant workers must be protected from abuse and corruption

International Migrants Day / Remittance hits record high, but workers remain neglected

Despite a record increase in remittance this year, experts and migrant workers say the government has yet to take meaningful steps to alleviate their suffering or ensure their benefits and welfare.

Bangladeshis in Malaysia: Clock ticking for 26,000 migrants

Khorshed Alam, a Bangladeshi migrant worker in Malaysia, wanted to renew his machine-readable passport in June as his year-long employment visa is about to expire this month.

They leave with big dreams, only to return broken

Md Iman Mollah, 49, of Manikganj, left for Malaysia six months ago with a dream -- to change his fate and secure a brighter future for his children, wife, and family.

Our migrant workers in UAE: Bound by borders, freed by conscience

The Washington Post recently speculated that Dr Yunus’s soft power may have indirectly influenced the UAE's decision to grant clemency.

Puzzling case of more migrants and less remittance

The following year, 757,731 migrant workers left the shore. But the remittance receipt was 10.9 percent lower at $13.61 billion.

Bangladeshi worker’s posts “deliberately provocative”, Singapore ministry says

A migrant worker who was active in local literary circles and founded two community groups here has left Singapore after his work permit expired and was not renewed.

September 7, 2024
September 7, 2024

Our migrant workers in UAE: Bound by borders, freed by conscience

The Washington Post recently speculated that Dr Yunus’s soft power may have indirectly influenced the UAE's decision to grant clemency.

March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023

Puzzling case of more migrants and less remittance

The following year, 757,731 migrant workers left the shore. But the remittance receipt was 10.9 percent lower at $13.61 billion.

June 23, 2022
June 23, 2022

Bangladeshi worker’s posts “deliberately provocative”, Singapore ministry says

A migrant worker who was active in local literary circles and founded two community groups here has left Singapore after his work permit expired and was not renewed.

May 5, 2022
May 5, 2022

'All my money gone': Bangladeshi migrant in Singapore among victims of online scam

When Sam (not his real name), a migrant worker, accepted a job offer on June 20 last year, all he wanted was to earn more money quickly, so that he could build a bigger and more comfortable home for his family in Bangladesh.

April 28, 2019
April 28, 2019

11 sent back home from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has deported 11 Bangladeshis who used to work in a factory owned by Inshaf Ibrahim, a man involved in the Shangri-La hotel bombing in Colombo.

March 29, 2019
March 29, 2019

The Bangladeshi migrant worker turned award-winning writer in Singapore

Migrants are often said to have built the imposing city of Singapore, making up around a quarter of its workforce, but are arguably not yet considered part of Singaporean society.

July 16, 2016
July 16, 2016

Bonded labour in Oman?

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a 68-page report titled “I was sold” that outlines the near-slavery conditions for migrant domestic workers in Oman.

October 22, 2015
October 22, 2015

Beating of Bangladeshi: Migrant workers deserve respect

The CCTV footage is of an angry altercation involving a Bangladeshi worker and a male customer regarding the cleaning of the interior of a luxury SUV at a car wash in Malaysia. The worker is slapped on the face several times.

April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015

Amnesty for illegal Bangladeshi expats in Oman soon

Around 47,000 illegal migrant workers in Oman, mostly Bangladeshis, can make use of the amnesty that will be officially announced by Oman government soon.

April 3, 2015
April 3, 2015

Bring home our boys

THE government has formally enlisted the help of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for the estimated 1,500 to 3,000 Bangladeshis trapped in war-ravaged Yemen.