The country's overseas employment declined by about 26 per cent during the last four months of the year as hiring by Saudi Arabia more than halved, the government said. During the January-April period of 2018, some 273,304 Bangladeshi workers went abroad with jobs. This compares with 368,458 during the same period of 2017, according to figures available with the state-run Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET). The demand for foreign