Dhaka, Nov. 30 -- Malaysia is one of the important labour markets for Bangladesh.
According to statistics provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), Malaysia ranks as the largest labour market after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. So far, about 1.5 million workers have gone to that country.
It is known that a formal agreement on manpower recruitment was signed between the two countries in 1992. But since the agreement, the Malaysian labour market has been closed to Bangladeshi workers at various times.
And the country finally stopped hiring workers from Bangladesh on May 31 last year. The reason for this was irregularities and syndicates.
However, this is not the first time that the M...