Migrants

Migrants
A handout made available by the Hellenic Coast Guard on 19 June 2022, shows rescued migrants resting in the shade of a building on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Greek rescuers save more than 100 migrants

More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said.

Migrant workers walk back to their home from work at an electrical and electronics industrial zone of Sungei Way Free Trade Zone in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, 10 June 2022.

Malaysia wants to hire ‘200,000 Bangladeshi workers within a year’

Malaysian companies from palm oil plantations to semiconductor makers are refusing orders and forgoing billions in sales, hampered by a shortage of more than a million workers that threatens the ...

A child, a Ukrainian refugee, carries luggage along the platform as he arrives from Odesa at Przemysl Glowny train station, after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Przemysl, Poland, 27 March 2022.

Europe s expects ‘over 150,000 migrant arrivals’ this year

Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the ...

Inclusive policy needs to be formulated: Anisul Islam Mahmud

Labour migration to Malaysia Inclusive policy needs to be formulated: Anisul Islam Mahmud

Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry, Anisul Islam Mahmud, has said an inclusive policy has to be formulated for the overseas labour ...

Editorial

Human trafficking ring active What are the govt agencies doing?

We often hear youths are detained while going to Europe via Lybia or while crossing the sea. Those who are lured by the agents and sell their property to go abroad for a better future are held ...

32 Bangladeshis among 81 migrants rescued from Mediterranean sea

32 Bangladeshis among 81 migrants rescued from Mediterranean sea

The Tunisian navy said Saturday it rescued 81 migrants, one of them a woman, who had set out for Europe from Libya on a barely seaworthy vessel

Editorial

Bangladeshis detained in Libya Human trafficking must stop

Of the 600 foreigners detained by the country's coast guard on the Libyan coast last Saturday, 500 were Bangladeshis. Deceived by the agents, they were going to Italy by sea via Libya.

A Lebanese Armed Forces helicopter hovers above the port of Tripoli, a day after a boat of around 60 migrants capsized off the coast of the northern city, on 24 April 2022.

At least 6 dead, 48 rescued after migrant ship capsizes off Lebanon

At least six people died, including a little girl, and almost 50 others were rescued after a migrant boat capsized off Lebanon, state media said, in the latest tragedy at sea off the crisis-hit ...

Editorial

Take steps to assuage sufferings and harassment of migrant women workers

The grim picture of the plight of female migrant workers revealed by the organisation consisting 22 NGOs is inexplicably painful

Shahinur Akter and her son Yaqub Hasan (R)

Mother flies to Libya and rescues son from mafias

Yaqub Hasan wanted to go to Italy from Libya through the Mediterranean in search of a better life. But he was captured by a mafia gang on his way

Arrest

Migrants dropped in St. Martin after promising to be sent to Malaysia: RAB

A gang of human traffickers would take poor aspirant migrants in trawler and drop them in St. Martin Island after collecting money and promising them to send to Malaysia, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) ...

Mediterranean boat tragedy: Nearly 100 migrants die

Mediterranean boat tragedy: Nearly 100 migrants die

Nearly 100 people have died in international waters after setting off from Libya in an overcrowded boat, international organisations said

An overcrowded dinghy with migrants from different African countries is followed by members of the German NGO Jugend Rettet as they approach the Iuventa vessel during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea.

Mediterranean 128 migrants rescued from overcrowded dinghy, two found dead

A search and rescue ship saved 128 migrants trying to reach Europe on an overcrowded dinghy Friday but found two on board had died, the NGO operating it said

Saudi Ambassador Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan

Interview: Saudi Ambassador Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan 'Saudi businessmen will come forward if investment is made easy'

Saudi investors are looking at Bangladesh as a new possibility of investment, said Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh, Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan, in an interview with Prothom Alo

Migrant workers, mostly from Bangladesh, queue to collect free masks and get their temperatures taken in Singapore on 23 February 2020

Covid impact Migrant worker families dip into savings

Relatives of expatriates withdraw a major portion of the money sent from abroad. The rest of the money is deposited in the bank. As a result, the growth rate of money deposited by expatriates in ...

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