Expatriate

Remittance

Bangladesh receives $1,539.49m remittance in September

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent around US $1,539.49 million remittances during the month of September in the fiscal 2022-23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

PM Hasina instructs Bangladeshi diaspora what to say to the US politicians

She said the country is talking about the human rights despite the fact that they have given shelters to the people who assassinated Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ...

US dollar

Remittance inflow rises by 12.6pc

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent US$ 2,037.80 million remittances in August, which was 12.6 per cent higher than the corresponding month of the previous year

Remittance

Expats remit $1.73b in 1-25 August

Expatriates have remitted $1.73 billion or approximately Tk 163.40 billion from 1 to 25 of August, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bank

Suicide Illustration

Bangladesh businessman live streams suicide on Facebook in Dubai

A 50-year-old Bangladeshi businessman live-streamed his suicide on Facebook in Dubai on Monday, reports news agency. He blamed his business partner for forcing him to take this extreme step

Map of Sylhet district

Two die, five members of an expat family found unconscious in Sylhet

Two members of an UK expatriate family died at a hospital in Sylhet after five members of the family were found unconscious at rented house in Osmaninagar upazila of the district Tuesday morning, ...

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 ...

But the question is, who are in this syndicate?

Labour migration to Malaysia: Is the syndicate powerful than the state

Many of us grew up hearing about the syndicates of rice, dal, oil and salt markets in the third world countries. A few days ago we saw the government officials launched raids at different wholesale ...

Malaysia to hire workers from Bangladesh this month

Malaysia to hire workers from Bangladesh this month: Minister

Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Imran Ahmed on Thursday said that Malaysia will start taking workers from Bangladesh this month

Expat Bangladeshi ‘beaten to death in Paris’

Expat Bangladeshi ‘beaten to death in Paris’

The deceased was identified as Sohel Rana, 43, originally from Sirajdikhan upazila of Sirajganj. He lived in Paris with his family and worked at a restaurant

Dhaka-born Australian journalist Mridula Amin

Mridula Amin From lawyer to Australia’s young journalist of the year

Mridula gives her Bangladeshi origin and knowledge of Bangla language the most credit behind reaching her current position

Photo shows Zahidur Rahman, special correspondent of private television channel NTV, on Green Square in Tripoli, capital of Libya.

Bangladeshi missing journalist in Libya traced after 5 days

Bangladeshi journalist Zahidur Rahman, who went missing in Libya five days ago, is now under the custody of Libyan intelligence agency

Editorial

Expatriate worker deaths on the rise, yet govt remains impervious

We do not want to see a miserable scenario for the people whose remittance is boosting the country's economy. The government's nonchalance towards the expatriates must end.

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 ...

Bangladeshi workers leave for S Korea

113 more Bangladesh workers leave for S Korea

South Korea has been accepting medium and low-skilled workers from 16 countries, including Bangladesh

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