Brokers feast on passport-seekers
Kabir Mia yesterday went to the Agargaon passport office to get his MRP but he instead ended up being detained for forgery and handed over to the Rapid Action Battalion.
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[WATCH] 2 held for using false info in passport application
Officials at Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) detain a person and a suspected broker for allegedly using false information in passport application.
7y ago
Gone broke for broker
Hashem Rahman made a Tk 3.5 lakh contract with a local broker in Comilla to get a restaurant job in Oman in 2015. His poor family
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The plight of Aleya
Aleya Begum was happy to get a job as a domestic help at a police official's house in Saudi Arabia.
7y ago
Impunity a licence for crimes
People of Bangladesh will decide how long the ongoing trial of the perpetrators of 1971 crimes will continue, observed visiting Canadian lawyer William Sloan.
7y ago
Maksuda loses battle for life
Maksuda Begum, a divorcee for almost 20 years, had struggled to survive by fighting against her fate.
7y ago
Rising deaths abroad raising concerns
Five years back, Nazrul Islam from Munshiganj took a Tk 5-lakh loan from a local bank and ventured out to Malaysia where many Bangladeshis have tried their luck over the years.
7y ago
Exploited by employers
Malaysian employers are paying undocumented Bangladeshi workers wages much lower than the average, taking advantage of lack of legal protection for migrant workers, says a Malaysian migrant rights activist.
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August 8, 2015
Malaysian firm milking expats
A recent government report shows rampant irregularities, bribery, illegal money transactions, and mismanagement by a Malaysian
July 11, 2015
Bangladeshi trafficking victims return home with shattered dream
The Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who returned home in the last two days, narrated inhuman physical and mental torture they
June 26, 2015
Back from traffickers' den
All they wanted to achieve was a better future. To bring solvency and happiness to their families, they became desperate to migrate to Malaysia even by any means.
June 24, 2015
Dhaka asks KL to allow pvt agencies
The government has requested Malaysia to let private agencies get involved in recruitment of Bangladeshi jobseekers alongside
June 20, 2015
They saw death closely
They saw their fellows dying one by one from severe thirst, hunger and torture by human traffickers on the sea. Some of them looked half-dead and they never believed they would return home alive.
June 18, 2015
Saudi restrictions put Biman in peril
The Saudi authorities this year stopped issuing Umrah visas to Bangladeshis on the allegation of smuggling of migrants into the
May 20, 2015
Finally they will be able to send money home legally
After suffering for one year due to suspension of private money transfer companies' operation in violence-torn Libya, some 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates will now be able to send money to their families using their employers' commercial bank accounts.
May 18, 2015
Libya bans entry of Bangladesh workers
Employment dearth forces many Bangladeshi expatriates in Libya to take risky voyage through the Mediterranean Sea for jobs in some European countries, especially Greece and Italy.
May 9, 2015
As legally restricted, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia from Bangladesh
As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.
April 20, 2015
337 Bangladeshis return home ending two-week nightmare in Yemen
They had had a two weeks' nightmare in the war-torn Yemen. Trapped amid deadly fighting, they witnessed untold miseries of people caused
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