Vodafone Qatar yesterday announced its super offers on international calling to Egypt, Bangladesh and other destinations, giving prepaid customers the best rates across several countries. Vodafone Prepaid customers can now call Egypt at only Dhs29 per minute, until January 4, 2015, by dialling *200*220# for QR2 perweek. This is the lowest international calling rate to Egypt in Qatar, said the company in a press release. Vodafone Prepaid customers can now call Bangladesh or SMS at only Dhs15 per week, until 26 December 2014, by dialling ...

An additional 12,000 Bangladeshi workers will be allowed to work in the plantations sector in Sarawak said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Najib said Sarawak needed 62,000 workers in the sector and Malaysia may bring in more workers from the country to meet this demand. “If they can adapt themselves, we will consider increasing this numbers,” he said after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the move was signed by Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot and Bangladesh Minister...

The leaders of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) today urged the government to immediately stop human trafficking from the country through the Bay of Bengal. They also called for arresting the traffickers. The Baira leaders came up with the demand at a press conference at its Eskaton Garden office this afternoon following recent incidents of rescuing people who were being trafficked to other countries through the Bay of Bengal. “The members of Bangladesh Navy, Border Guard Bangladesh and Coast Guard shou...

A police officer from Farwaniya Police Station has been arrested for abusing his authority and cooperating with a criminal who impersonated as a police officer, blackmailed a Bangladeshi expatriate and threatened to deport him if he did not pay KD 500, reports Al-Rai daily. According to security sources, the Bangladeshi expatriate identified as Shahed was walking down a street in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area when an unknown individual driving a pickup truck stopped him and demanded for his identification documents after claiming tha...

Two Perlis Immigration officers were tentatively charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on Oct 29. Mohd Aminnudin Mohd Yasin, 32, and Zuhairul Effendy Zualkafli, 32, allegedly killed Abu Bakar Siddiqe, 45, in the pantry at Level 2 of the Immigration premises at Kompleks KDN here, between 10pm and 11pm. The charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, read with Section 34, carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction. Magistrate Nik Mohd Tarm...

Kosru Miah was one of ten winners in the in the caterer of the year category, for his work with the restaurant in High Street, Cottenham. [caption id="attachment_10501" align="alignleft" width="133"] Gregg Wallace and Tasmin Lucia Khan[/caption] The awards bash was help at Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane and attended by nominees for across the country. It was hosted by by TV presenter Tasmin Lucia-Khan and Master Chef’s Gregg Wallace, with Ed Miliband as special guest.