Expatriates’ Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday said the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will soon recruit some professional and skilled workers, especially doctors and engineers, from Bangladesh. We’re discussing and working over sending professional and skilled manpower to the UAE,” he told reporters after a meeting with UAE Ambassador in Dhaka Saeed Bin Hajar Al Shahi at the ministry, reports UNB. The minister said, “The UAE is our old market but some competitors, particularly neighbo...

All Bangladesh citizens working abroad would hopefully get machine readable passports (MRPs) by March 2015, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told Parliament on Wednesday. “Issuing machine readable passports (MRPs) for Bangladesh citizens abroad has already started…it’s expected that all Bangladesh citizens working abroad will be provided with MRPs by March 2015,” he said, replying to a scripted question of M Rustom Ali Faraji (Pirojpur-3). The State Minister also said that MRPs are already being given to Bangladesh cit...