KL Recruitment Right
Minister, Baira at loggerheads
Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday turned down the private recruiting agencies’ demand for allowing them to recruit workers for jobs in Malaysia.
“I told Baira leaders that we shall initially send workers to Malaysia at government level. Gradually, when the system is streamlined, we will leave the task for the agencies,” he said after a meeting with
kuala lumpur
Goodbye, middlemen
Dhaka, KL agree on state handling of workers’ job in Malaysia
Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur have agreed on state arrangements for recruitment of Bangladeshi workers by Malaysia eliminating middlemen from the process to reduce the cost of sending workers and end their perennial abuses.
“Malaysia is very concerned about human trafficking. It wants to improve this
Recruit only thru’ govt
Dhaka proposes to KL to save workers from middlemen
Dhaka has proposed to Kuala Lumpur to recruit Bangladeshi workers under government arrangements to cut involvement of middlemen to reduce the cost of their going abroad for jobs and to put an end to their exploitation.
Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam has termed
5 lakh expat Bangladeshi workers to be fingerprinted
Malaysia
5 lakh expat Bangladeshi workers to be fingerprinted
Bangladesh and Malaysia will work together to fingerprint for the first time the estimated 500,000 Bangladeshis working legally and illegally here, said Hishammuddin Hussein, home minister of Malaysia, yesterday.
The government had struck a separate agreement with Bangladesh’s High Commission to facilitate the registration of their workers, beginning immediately, he
Siddikur leading world No. 2
Lee Westwood may have the world No 1 spot in mind, but on the opening day of the Indosian Masters, Siddikur Rahman ruled the roost.
He shot an opening six-under-par 66 yesterday to lead and has the world No 2 Westwood trailing by two. According to the Asian Tour website, Siddikur fired two superb chip-ins in ideal scoring
Siddikur trumps World No.1
Golfer Siddikur Rahman was once again impressive as he surpassed a more illustrious name in the sport.
After finishing on eighth position in the $2.5-million Maybank Malaysian Open golf tournament in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, he was placed ahead of 2011 Masters Tournament champion Charl Shwartzel, who finished eleventh