Manpower in Bangladesh

Manpower export from Bangladesh

must congratulate Helal Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director of Pubali Bank, for coming up with a very innovative scheme for funding the prospective job seekers abroad. A substantial number of the expatriate wage earners are victims of the unscrupulous manpower agents…

Modernise technical edn to create skilled manpower

The engineering and technical education will have to be modernised and expanded across the country for creating skilled manpower which is one of the key ways to make the nation prosperous, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

The second shift system…

Manpower brokers in big hundi racket buy job demands

Amid lax management in the overseas sector, recruiting agencies and manpower brokers smuggle about Tk 8,000 crore every year in the form of hundi to buy visas or job demands for Bangladeshi workers.

Such illegal transactions spawn enormous malpractices forcing a…

Exporting more trained people

GREATER remittance can boost the country’s foreign exchange reserve as well as its import operations and support development projects. The remittances would support the families of the overseas workers to come out of poverty faster.

It is estimated that remittance can…

Overseas jobs fall sharply in August as demand shrinks in S Arabia, Malaysia

Overseas jobs for Bangladeshis fell by 38 per cent in August compared to the previous month due to a decline in demand in the Middle Eastern countries and Malaysia, officials said on Monday.

The Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training said…

Remittances fall by 10.69pc in August

The flow of inward remittances fell by 10.69 per cent in August over the previous month, as fallout of labour unrest in two Middle eastern countries compelled a good number of Bangladeshi workers to return home.

The remittances from Bangladeshi nationals…

Iftekhar assured of Kuwait’s bid to resolve workers’ problems

Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Friday said the Kuwaiti authorities have assured him of every effort to resolve the problems faced by the Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait, reports UNB.

Iftekhar, also in charge of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare…

Seoul to recruit 7000 Bangladeshis by 2009

South Korea will recruit over 7000 skilled and semi skilled workers from Bangladesh in the next 16 months, the country’s ambassador told the FE on Monday.

Suk-Bum Park said around 3000 Bangladeshi would get jobs in the East Asian economic giant…

100,000 Bangladeshis to get jobs in Malaysia in three months

Over 100,000 Bangladeshis are expected to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia by next three months, foreign adviser said Friday.

“We have come to know that a further 100,000 Bangladeshis will be able to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia this…

Punish the unscrupulous manpower agents

I want to convey my thanks to Mr Shamsul Huq Zahid for his column in the FE in which he wrote about the plight of the expatriate Bangladeshis. As an expatriate for 8 years I would like to tell you…