Malaysia wants to recruit over 3 lakh workers from Bangladesh soon, visiting Malaysian Home Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said here on Monday. He conveyed the Malaysian government’s willingness during a meeting with Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal at his…
The United Arab Emirates is likely to resume importing manpower from Bangladesh, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said on Monday. The minister said the UAE will sign an agreement with Bangladesh end this month to reopen…
Oman is interested in taking more skilled manpower from Bangladesh, said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday. “We’ve requested the government of Oman to take more skilled manpower from Bangladesh for its construction, agriculture and…
Bangladesh needs to focus on high-quality learning, and strong foundational cognitive and behavioral skills from early childhood, says a new World Bank report. The findings and recommendations of the report, titled ‘Seeding Fertile Ground: Education That Works for Bangladesh’ were…
No Bangladeshi is among those injured and dead in the mass knife-attack at a railway station of Yunnan’s provincial capital Kunming, China on Sunday night. At least 33 people were killed and at least 140 wounded in the knife-attack, triggering…
No Bangladeshi is among those injured and dead in the mass knife-attack at a railway station of Yunnan’s provincial capital Kunming, China on Sunday night. At least 33 people were killed and at least 140 wounded in the knife-attack, triggering…
More than 12,000 Somalis have been deported since 1 January 2014 from Saudi Arabia back to conflict-ridden Somalia, according to Human Rights Watch. In the absence of any protection screening and referral mechanism prior to departure, Saudi Arabia risks violating…
The skill test for Bangladeshi job seekers in South Korea started at the Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre here on Friday with some 571 Bangladeshi job seekers taking part in it.
Muscat: More than 100,000 jobs are to be stripped from expatriates and given to Omanis as the government works to redress the imbalance in the Sultanate’s employment market. Minister of Manpower Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri on Monday affirmed…
Leaders of RMG workers on Friday at a rally in the city demanded of the government to compensate the families of the Rana Plaza victims immediately.
Dhaka – The five-day training course on “International Business Communication in English” concluded at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) through awarding certificates among the participants on Wednesday. DCCI vice president Kh. Shahidul Islam has called upon the entrepreneurs…
Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre on Tuesday said many readymade garment factories have not yet implemented the new wage board for workers. The minimum wages for the garment workers, effective from January, have been set at Tk. 5,300.
Police have baton-charged and dispersed workers of a garment factory blocking the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar, near Dhaka City, demanding their unpaid wages for the months of November and December.
Dhaka – Some 225 Bangladeshis have been held after a series of drives against irregular migrants in Malaysia, reports Malaysian media on Tuesday. A total of 1,565 illegal immigrants have been arrested by authorities under ‘Ops Sepadu’ drive, which started…
The remittance inflow in the country over the first half of the current fiscal (2013-14) from July to December last stood at US$ 6,788.57 million, according to the latest statistics released by the central bank on Thursday.
Rights activists on Thursday urged the government to emphasise free movement of labour in the upcoming WTO ministerial meet to be held in Bali, Indonesia on December 3-6.
Speakers in a function here on Monday stressed the need for socio-economic upliftment of womenfolk and their enhanced participation in overall activities of the country to push forward the nation towards development.
President Abdul Hamid on Monday urged the Malaysian government to recruit more manpower, especially skilled ones, from Bangladesh, saying they would contribute to the economies of both the countries.
The second phase of the epoch-making National Service Programme (NSP) has been progressing successfully creating jobs for the unemployed educated male and female youths in Rangpur division.
Drugstore owners kept their shutters down across the country on Thursday to press home their eight-point demand, including the release of their fellowmen arrested on charge of selling fake and date-expired medicines.
The German multinational software corporation, SAP, is offering technological solutions to help run Bangladesh’s burgeoning garment industry better.
Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) is organizing an assessor training course on ISO 15189 with a view to developing competent medical laboratory experts and enhancing the national capability in medical testing from 03-07 November 2013 at Hotel Ruposhi Bangla, Dhaka.
Dhaka – Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus at a concert in New York has urged a gathering of 50,000 youths to create a world without poverty, without unemployment, and without any need for people to live on state charity.
Highlighting the pitiable condition of garment workers, Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged the fashion leaders and designers to stand up in solidarity with them all over the world.
Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Monday urged all the garment workers to get back to their work as the factories which have been shut following labour unrest reopen on Tuesday.
Gazipur – Production at over 100 garment factories in several parts of the district was suspended for a day on Sunday following labour unrest.
Production at 10 garment factories in Hotapara and Monipur areas of Sadar upazila was suspended for a day on Tuesday following labour unrest.
DHAKA: Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has appointed Khalid Ali J Hassan as new Area Manager for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh and Panama will sign a bilateral agreement in October bringing an opportunity for Bangladeshi seamen to get jobs in Panama-flag carrying vessels. Panama, which is the world leader in shipping registry with a total of 9,000 ships worldwide, will…
Malaysia will deal with applications for visitor visas for Bangladeshis through a one-stop centre in Dhaka starting from Oct 1.