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The relation between corruption and remittance

Many are sympathetic towards migrant workers for justifiable reasons.

(Not My) Home: Musings of a Reluctant Immigrant

Despite all her flaws, Dhaka is still the home that loves with reckless abandon

Why only 25 agencies allowed to hire migrant workers for Malaysia?

Bangaldeshi migrant workers haven’t been able to go to Kuala Lumpur due to allegations of irregularities. After so many years, the possibility of immigration is opening up again, but why is the process being questioned over same allegations?

Recruiting workers: Malaysian minister asked why only 25 Bangladeshi agencies allowed

A Malaysian MP and two migrant rights bodies have asked the southeast Asian country’s Human Resources Minister M Saravanan to explain his decision to allow only 25 Bangladeshi agencies to recruit workers for Malaysia, daily Malay Mail reported today.

Engaging private organisations for sustainable development

The session aimed to identify areas of collaboration amongst stakeholders to create enduring partnership for development and better serve disadvantaged groups through engaging the private sector.

Sociedad and their social benefits

Football may appear to be a cut-throat business run by multi-billionaires who care about little more than lining their pockets and adopting a revolving door policy when it comes to managerial appointments.

Editorial / 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.

Shipwrecks off Libyan coast, up to 700 feared dead

At least 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

Toddler becomes first 2016 migrant casualty

A drowned two-year-old boy became the first known migrant casualty of the year on Saturday after the crowded dinghy he was travelling in slammed into rocks off Greece's Agathonisi island, the coastguard said.

October 26, 2015
October 26, 2015

Migrant crisis: Thousands of new reception places agreed

Another 100,000 spaces in refugee welcome centers will be created under a deal agreed by European leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels.

October 21, 2015
October 21, 2015

Experts say Bangladeshi migrants get less for lack of language skill

Bangladesh’s migrant workers toil in foreign lands for longer hours compared to peers from other countries, but they earn much less as they lack skills and face a language barrier, depriving themselves of a better future and the country of remittance.

September 14, 2015
September 14, 2015

Refugee women give birth on way to Europe, even on boats

A Nigerian migrant mother calls her baby girl "Gift" after a difficult delivery on an Italian navy ship that rescued her in the Mediterranean.

September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015

Migrant crisis: Germany 'can take 500,000 asylum-seekers a year'

Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel says.

September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015

Austria 'to end migrant measures'

Austria says it is planning to phase out special measures that have allowed thousands of migrants to travel freely from Hungary to Western Europe.

September 2, 2015
September 2, 2015

Spain finds Guinea migrant hidden behind car engine

A West African migrant enters the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco curled up next to a car engine and another is hidden behind the back seat of the Mercedes-300 car.

September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015

The journalists sued by the Thai navy

A court in the southern Thai island of Phuket acquits two journalists of defaming the navy and breaching the Computer Crimes Act.

July 10, 2015
July 10, 2015

3 Bangladeshis killed in Saudi road crash

9 people including 3 Bangladeshis killed in a road accident in Riyad of Saudi Arabia, foreign ministry official says.

June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015

Unskilled, trapped in foreign lands

Alauddin Mollick, son of landless poor farmer Shahadat Mollick, had to drop out from school when he was in ninth grade due to abject poverty.

June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015

Women trafficking victims are sexually abused all the way

Afia (not her real name) was not accompanied by any of her family members, but she showed no signs of jitters. While many in the vessel turned pale in panic due to want of food and water in the perilous sea, the beautiful young girl held her nerves.