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  Training duration of women migrants should be extended: principal Fouzia Shahnaz

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:29am on March 06, 2020

  Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Women Technical Training Centre principal Fouzia Shahnaz said that the duration of training to provide the country’s women migrants a grounding before...

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  All should fulfil responsibilities to ease life of returnees: Nahida Rahman Shumona

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:27am on March 06, 2020

  The government, civil society and families — all have an equal responsibility to ease the life of a returnee female migrant, said Nahida Rahman Shumona,...

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  We should groom caregivers for western countries: Hasna Hena

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:25am on March 06, 2020

  Bangladesh government should groom a large number of caregivers by providing them quality training after a setting a target of sending them to western countries,...

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  Attention to migrant issues is overdue

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 26, 2020

  IT IS worrying that more than 10 million migrant workers and diaspora community members, whose remittances are a mainstay of the national economy, often face...

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  Migration to Saudi Arabia rises to 73pc

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:47am on February 09, 2020

  Bangladeshis seeking overseas jobs are heavily dependent on Saudi Arabia, which is responsible for recruiting about 73 per cent of the total workers sent abroad...

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  Experts for creating jobs, skills to reduce migration

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:55am on February 05, 2020

  Economists, researchers and migration experts on Tuesday stressed the need for creating jobs in the country to reduce pressure on overseas migration. They suggested that...

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  UAE new chair of GFMD, next summit in Dubai

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan from Quito, Ecuador | Updated at 01:20am on January 26, 2020

  The 12th summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development ended on Friday in Quito of Ecuador with a call to foster partnership among...

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  Migration summit begins at Quito today

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan from Quito, Ecuador | Updated at 01:19am on January 21, 2020

  The 12th summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development begins in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, today. The summit with the theme...

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  Women migration affects children left behind in Bangladesh: study

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:13am on December 30, 2019

  Children left behind by Bangladeshi female migrant workers from underprivileged areas fail to go school regularly due to different factors including their engagement in economic...

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  New Age reporter Owasim gets OKUP media award

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:57am on December 29, 2019

  New Age senior staff correspondent Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan on Saturday received the Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Programme media award for reporting on migration news...