Migrant workers sent home $1.68 billion in October

Bankers today decided to pay a total of Tk 110.70 to migrant workers and non-resident Bangladeshis for a US dollar from this week in order to encourage them to send foreign currency through formal channels, according to a meeting.

Coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said yesterday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days

Recruitment of new Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia has been tainted by a number of irregularities, with a few dozen workers falling into trouble, which includes joblessness.

Every week hundreds more migrants thrown out of Algeria end up here in Assamaka, the first village on the Niger border

The amount is a seven-month high

A group of 10 Bangladeshi migrant workers were detained this week in Malaysia for “not possessing valid documents”, according to a report of Free Malaysia Today (FMT).

A year has passed since a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Bangladesh and Greece for the latter to recruit Bangladeshi migrant workers. However, Greece is yet to initiate the process.

Irregular migration of Bangladeshis to Italy by sea has almost doubled in a year, shows UN data.

Bangladesh Bank cleared $1.05 billion ACU payment on March 6

However, February's remittance of $1.56 billion was 20.3 per cent lower than the previous month's $1.95 billion

Last night, a Malaysia airlines flight brought the 14-year-old Ratul Islam Fahim to Dhaka from Kuala Lumpur around 10:00pm

The USA has 5 lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers and Saudi Arabia 20 lakh

Bangladeshis in the North American country sent home $966.89 million in the October-December period of 2022

The boat carrying 80 people had departed from Qasr al-Akhyar, east of the capital Tripoli, and was heading to Europe when it ran into trouble on Tuesday, the UN's IOM said

Despite sending well over a million migrants abroad last year, Bangladesh is unlikely to get the desired remittance from them as almost four out of five of them were less skilled.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Malaysia Md Golam Sarwar has called for ensuring transparency in the recruitment process of workers from Bangladesh to Malaysia

India's Agra police today arrested 28 Bangladesh citizens who were allegedly staying in a slum illegally.

Bangladesh's per capita income stood at $2,793 in fiscal 2021-22 -- $31 lower than the initial estimate as the steep depreciation of the taka messed up the government’s numbers.

The Bangladesh Bank will introduce another tool to provide liquidity support to the cash-strapped shariah-based banks in order to cushion their ailing financial health.