Rescue ship Ocean Viking has saved 438 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean over the last two days, the organisation that runs it, SOS Mediterranee, said on Friday

From now on Bangladeshi citizens with transit visa will be able to stay four days in Saudi Arabia and perform umrah and migrants living there would be able to take their families to the kingdom for three months’ stay.

The body of one of the eight Bangladeshi migrants feared missing after a boat from Italy to Libya capsized in the Mediterranean has been found while two others are believed to be alive, their family members said.

The government does not want to accept the country's labour migration and remittance sector as a 'priority' sector, Barrister Shameem Haider Patwary, chairperson of Bangladesh Parliamentarians' Caucus on Migration and Development, said today

Immigration officers in Malaysia rounded up 252 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers during a raid today, according to a report of Free Malaysia Today, an online news portal

With numerous job opportunities and the scope to earn a decent living, Japan has emerged as a lucrative labour market for skilled Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Migrant workers sent $21.61 billion to Bangladesh in the just-concluded fiscal year as remittance rebounded on the back of higher flow on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and a record outflow of labourers, official figures showed yesterday

Bangladesh for the first time has sent seasonal farm workers to the UK under its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme

Speakers at a dissemination workshop today said the social cost borne by elderly parents of migrant workers is an under-addressed area in the country’s labour migration discourse, stressing adequate government measures to this end

Thanks to higher inflow of remittances for Eid-ul-Azha

Italy has agreed to take skilled workers from Bangladesh under a bilateral migration and mobility arrangement, particularly for Italian construction, shipbuilding and hospitality sectors.

Around 47 percent Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Maldives do not receive the wages promised to them, according to a recent study.

Only 53 percent of the Bangladeshi migrant workers in Maldives receive promised wage and their average monthly income is Tk 35,147..The information was revealed in a new study by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).

The government is contemplating increasing the incentive on remittance, said Planning Minister MA Mannan today

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday held discussions with Malaysian officials for sending more migrant workers, stressing upon safe and orderly migration

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech revealed that more than 1.49 crore Bangladeshi workers are working in 176 countries across the world

The Malaysian human resources ministry transferred two of its top officials in connection with the recent recruitment of Bangladeshi and Nepalese workers

Some of Malaysia’s largest palm oil producers are not hiring workers from Bangladesh because of concerns over exploitative practices during recruitment, companies and labour consultants say

Stranded without work for months, hundreds of South Asian migrants in Malaysia say they are losing hope after failing to find jobs promised to them by recruitment agents in exchange for thousands of dollars in fees..At a students' dormitory about 40 km (25 miles) from the capital, Kuala Lu

Authorities in northwest Mexico rescued 113 kidnapped migrants of different nationalities, including Bangladeshis, from a building along the border with the United States, the state prosecutor's office said.