Porimol Palma

A man and a woman from two different countries can make a happy family if they respect each other's culture and values.

Would Bangladesh ever be able to protect the rights of its citizens who work on foreign soil? The ongoing negotiation on labour recruitment with the Malaysian government makes it doubtful.

Diseases like dengue would see rapid rise in the coming years as a result of climate change and unplanned urbanisation, health and environmental experts said.

Malaysia has appointed a private company to manage recruitment of Bangladeshi workers under the new G2G Plus system, despite fear that the firm will monopolise the hiring process and indulge in irregularities.

At least 1,930 dengue cases were reported in the last nine months, the highest in nine years, but the authorities are apparently slow in taking measures to prevent spread of the viral disease. In 2006, a total of 2,200 people suffered from dengue. The number ranged from 375 to 1,749 a year between 2007 and 2014, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Dhaka city is seeing a rapid rise in the incidence of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection that can be fatal at times. Last month, 727 dengue cases were reported in the capital and elsewhere. The number was 558 in the first 20 days of this month, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Bangladesh's performance is poor in reducing the risks of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like stroke, diabetes, cancer, and

The Bangladeshis in Libya are living in extreme uncertainty amid persisting violence in the war-torn country. Fearing for their life, many are returning home while some are embarking on risky boat journeys to Europe across the Mediterranean.

As Malaysia's economy starts to slow down in the face of falling oil prices and political uncertainty, Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian nation are starting to feel the crunch.

The government banned three types of medicine, which were registered with the Directorate General of Drug Administration more than

Scientists in Bangladesh have developed a low-cost technology more effective than the standard oxygen therapy used in the developing countries to treat infants suffering from severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia.

Malaysia has always acted mysteriously when it came to hiring workers from Bangladesh.

A Malaysian delegation reached Dhaka yesterday to discuss the mode of labour recruitment through the private sector amid a number of controversies and unaddressed concerns.

The government-to-government (G2G) labour recruitment system between Bangladesh and Malaysia was made to fail.

In the midst of a busy Eid shopping day in the bustling island city of Penang, Musa Sheikh, 53, was selling tabiz, amulets thought to

Mohammad Shafiq was shocked when he saw policemen carrying dozens of coffins to a graveyard at Kampong Tualang village of Alor Setar in Malaysia's northern state of Kedah late June.

The plan to export manpower to Malaysia under private management without a strict monitoring system may give rise to labour abuse and exploitation, as

Khadiza Siddique Meem wanted to be either a doctor or a marine engineer -- a dream that she had the potential to achieve. Meem achieved GPA-5 in the SSC exams this year, however, she did not get to know her brilliant result.

The number of caesarean births has almost doubled in the last eight years largely due to lack of accountability of profit-hungry private healthcare providers and absence of proper rules and regulations. The figure rose to 690,000 or 23 percent of total deliveries last year from 355,000 or 9 percent of total deliveries in 2007, according to Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014.

Several hundred Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are still held hostage in Thai jungles despite reported crackdowns on human trafficking after discovery of mass graves and skeletons along the borders of Thailand and Malaysia. Ransom calls from Thailand to the families of at least seven Bangladeshis who left home mostly in March-April bears out reports that the dark trade is still on.