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Double-pronged plans underway to augment remittances

With Bangladeshi expatriates across the globe playing a major role in the growth of country’s economy through sending remittances, the government has devised double-pronged plans to augment sending more workers abroad and hence increasing the flow of remittances.As part of the government&rsquo...

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Syndicate discouraging Malaysia to hire BD workers

An uncertainty griped over the arrival of a Malaysian delegation to Bangladesh as a syndicate of different recruiting agencies were spreading rumour on the hiring of workers from country, said sources. Although, Malaysian government showed their interest on hiring labours from Bangladesh, a syndicat...

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Malaysia - BD to work on ways to expand labour intake

A delegation from Malaysia is due to visit Dhaka on November 24 to meet the government at a Joint Working Meeting to work out on their commitment to hire Bangladeshi workers under certain conditions. Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed said, “The Mahathir government has agreed...

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Labour market broadening

Following various initiatives undertaken by the government, new labour markets are opening up for Bangladesh in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Japan and Malaysia. However, experts commented that progress made through G2G, transforming people into public resource, closing down human trafficking ...

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Unabated licensing behind mass deportation: Expert

Migrant experts believe that the issuing of licenses to agencies in an unmonitored fashion, lack of skilled migrating workers with qualifications, and the lack of jobs is forcing migrants workforce to be deported from Saudi Arabia.Migration Expert Asif Munir told Bangladesh Post, “It is said t...

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Death of domestic helps abroad rise alarmingly

The number of death of expatriate female domestic helps in Middle Eastern countries is increasing alarmingly, creating great concern over their workplace condition. Questions is being raised from different strata of society about where we are sending our female citizens to earn some money.It has bee...

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Fresh initiative to repatriate Rohingyas

Under the initiative of China, the government is going to form a committee comprising of representatives from BD, China, Japan, Myanmar, NGOs and the Rohingyas aiming at resolving the Rohingya crisis as soon as possible, sources said. Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman said, t...

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Migrant worker return on rise

The return of Bangladeshi workers from different countries has recently been increasing as most of these countries are cracking down on workers without legal documents. Besides, there are two main reasons for the return of workers--- voluntary and forced. Data on forced return is usually collected b...

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Village courts benefit people to seek justice

Village courts or informal courts are becoming widely popular as it pursues quick disposal of complaints through local level arbitration without delaying or involving huge expenditures. Already introduced in 1080 unions of Bangladesh, the informal courts are playing significant roles in ensuring jus...

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UK aid £30 million of extra support

The UK Government’s International Development Minister Baroness Sugg announced a further £30 million of UK aid support, on top of the UK’s recent pledge of £87 million to the Rohingya crisis. Baroness Sugg paid tribute to all those working tirelessly to support the Rohingyas ...

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Food adulteration goes unabated

Many of the dairy products and various meats are being adulterated with harmful chemicals by unscrupulous traders for huge profits.The dairy products like milk, eggs, cheese, butter and poultry as well as fish and meat are found to be adulterated by highly health damaging chemicals, recent laborator...

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Automation not a major concern in RMG

Garments factory owners are increasingly introducing robotics and auto machines in the Ready Made Garments (RMG) industry which may generate labour unrest in the country. However, the experts believe that would not be a major concern as the automation would ensure quality and cost effective producti...

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Huge jobs in Japan

Bangladeshis workers have adaptation capacity to cope up with foreign culture, they can do any job abroad, experts say. However, Japanese authorities have excluded Bangladeshis from its list of manpower recruiting countries’ as what Japan terms- ‘Bangladeshi workers don’t have mann...

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Bangladesh to share water of Feni River with India

Bangladesh has decided in principle to share 1.82 cusec of water of the river Feni with India. If India withdraws water from Bangladesh river Feni, there will be no adverse impact on environment of the country, experts said.Talking to Bangladesh Post, senior member of Joint River Commission(JRC) Eng...

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Bangabandhu killing made BD lag behind

The ideology of the great Liberation War was foiled through the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while the nation lost everything, and Bangladesh lost all possibilities.Immediately after the August 15 barbaric killing, two intrinsic tenets like 'socia...

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Govt working to save country’s migrant workers’ interests

The government has taken various initiatives to train and protect the migrant workers of the country.The initiatives will—reduce dependency on broker, confirm migrant workers visa, sending through agencies directly and others. Through digitalisation, the initiatives will also ensure migra...

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Japan to take Bangladeshi skilled manpower

Five ministries including Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology are working to get Bangladesh enlisted in the list of countries from where Japan is taking skilled manpower.Japan is looking for skilled workers of 14 categories so Bangladesh can reap the benefits of this by ...

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Extra fare charged in transport

Transport workers are allegedly charging excessive fare from the home bound passengers ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, despite deployment of additional vigilance by the law enforcers at bus stops in city and elsewhere. Passengers belonging to the poor, middle class and lower-middle class group are facing seri...

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Flood hit people return home

The misery of the country’s flood-affected people of the northern region is going to end as people are starting preparations for the return journey, after flood situation improved during last two days due to gradual deceasing of water levels in major rivers. During the time, water levels of a ...

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Biometric attendance for primary teachers

The government is all set to introduce biometric attendance device at every government primary school within this month in order to ensure cent percent presence of teachers.The presence will be ensured through the fingerprint of the concerned teachers at the primary school whereas upazila primary ed...