Says Italian Ambassador Enrico Nunziata in interview with The Daily Star As Italy has enlisted Bangladesh as one of the 30 countries eligible to send seasonal and non-seasonal workers after an eight-year long suspension, Italian authorities have urged aspirants to use legal pathways. "If you follow legal pathways, you can make a fortune. Or else, you [will] fall prey to the traps of middlemen and frauds," said Enrico Nunziata, Italian Ambassador

Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan The International Migrants Day 2020 during this COVID-19 pandemic appears depressing for millions of the global migrant workers, including Bangladeshis, as they are facing crisis at different stages of migration. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers have experienced joblessness, food scarcity, an undocumented situation, detention and deportation at destinations while many others faced xenophobic

Govt tells UN, int’l community, hopes they will join the process The government has urged all not to undermine or misinterpret its genuine efforts to improve the lives of Rohingya refugees through their ongoing relocation to Bhasan Char. It relocated 1,642 Rohingyas to the island in the Bay of Bengal under Noakhali's Hatiya upazila yesterday. The UN said that it has limited information and has not been involved in the relocation exercise, while

For the fourth time this year, Bangladeshis expatriates have sent remittance of over US $2 billion, despite the global economic fallout due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The amount of remittance sent by expatriates in the just-concluded November was US $2,078.74 million, which is 33.63 percent up from the same period last year. In November last year, it was US $1,555.23 million. Migrant workers remitted $2.11 billion in October this year, which was much