After UN rebuke, Bangladesh to meet M’sian officials on migrant worker issue

The Bangladeshi government is seeking to meet with Malaysian officials next month to discuss migrant workers’ recruitment to Malaysia.

This comes after United Nations experts last Friday expressed "dismay" over the mismanagement of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, who arrived to find there was no employment waiting for them, forcing them to live in deplorable and uncertain conditions.

"We have offered for a meeting by May and it depends on the response from the Malaysian government...