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Direct hiring of migrant workers

Unsurprisingly, Kuala Lumpur takes the lead in weeding out middlemen or agents from its pre-existing migrant workers' recruitment policies and practices. In a propitious combination of circumstances, one may add, Malaysia measures up to the need for initiating a fair recruitment deal with the underpinnings of a productive, secure work...

Helping youths think out of the box

Except the keen observers, majority of people cannot often tell a smoothly passed university graduate from one not being able to cross the bar. True, the former finds a wide array of job offers before him or her; the latter spends hours browsing online job-pages or newspapers. This has been...

Addressing a malady

Across the world annual reports will have glossed over the massive bailout debts that they owe. Once in a while legislators and, in Europe, the central bank will issue friendly reminders. Unfortunately there's nothing friendly about a whopping Tk 225 billion of debt that has gone bad in Bangladesh. The...

Christmas - the message of universal love

Christmas is a festival not only for the Christians, it has also become a global event thanks to the media and technology. Bangladesh has many Christians and they will celebrate it with due fervour and festivity. After Christmas, the New Year is welcomed and we see happiness everywhere. The world...

Japan increases national defence budget

Japan's Cabinet approved on December 21 a record 5.26 trillion yen ($47 billion) military and defence budget. The national defence budget was increased by 1.3 per cent compared with the previous year - a seventh annual increase since Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012.The defence budget needs to be...

A mixed year for Bangladesh cricket

The Tigers lost the twenty series against West Indies after winning the Test and ODI series. They lost the third ODI against West Indies by 50 runs and lost the series by 2-1. West Indies finally got a trophy to take home - and the shortest version is their favourite!...

Animals too feel cold!

When we feel cold we put on a jacket. When a poor individual is cold, we share our old jacket. But what do we do when a street dog or cat feels cold? Nothing. But they go through the same cold as we do - and even worse. We feel...