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Steps needed to develop skills for overseas job seekers
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:03am on June 02, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has affected the jobs of over 50 lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers employed across the world and many of the migrants were...
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Bangladeshi workers continue to get trafficked
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:01am on May 31, 2020
The rackets of human traffickers still remain active in Bangladesh in the guise of manpower brokers or travel agents as they continue to allure migrant...
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Higher budget share stressed for agriculture to ensure food security
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:09am on May 31, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the country’s agriculture sector hampering food productions and causing losses to farmers, said officials. Economists and agricultural experts...
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Price fall frustrates onion growers
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:56am on May 22, 2020
The decreasing prices of onion are frustrating growers in Bangladesh as they are forced to sell their crop at prices Tk 30 lower a kilogram...
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Kuwait to lay off 6 lakh workers
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:45am on May 20, 2020
The Kuwait government has decided to lay off 6 lakh foreign workers, including Bangladeshis, to replace their jobs with the Kuwaitis, according to a report...
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400 undocumented Bangladesh nationals arrested in Malaysia
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 10:26pm on May 15, 2020
The Malaysian authorities have arrested over 400 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in separate crackdowns launched since the beginning of this month, said Malaysia-based...
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Over 40,000 Bangladeshis may be legalised in Bahrain
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:03am on May 12, 2020
Over 40,000 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants have been in the process of being legalised in Bahrain under its ongoing general amnesty that began since early this...
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Bangladeshis languish in Kuwait camps
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:16am on May 04, 2020
Several thousands of the Bangladeshi migrant workers who were stranded in many labour camps in Kuwait for deportation under a general amnesty have been passing...
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Bangladeshi migrants face deportation, loss of jobs, food crisis
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 04:01pm on May 01, 2020
Thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers are passing days in deep crisis abroad as they are facing forced repatriation, loss of jobs, limited access to foods...
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1 lakh jobless migrants return in one month
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:45am on April 27, 2020
Over one lakh Bangladeshi workers returned home jobless in one month amid the outbreak of novel coronavirus globally, according to a government estimate. Expatriates welfare...