Around 3 lakh registered Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia would have to pay the levy previously paid by their employers as the country yesterday imposed a new levy on foreign workers.

Malaysian police rescue a Bangladeshi expatriate over a week after he is kidnapped by miscreants. Four people are detained in this connection.

The world's "up and coming economies" are struggling to shake off corruption, an anti-graft watchdog warned today, citing massive scandals in Brazil and Malaysia as cause for concern.

Malaysia's top prosecutor has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of corruption in a long-running financial scandal that has gripped the nation.

In the wake of a series of controversies, the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur now says Malaysia's appointing a company would establish its absolute control over labour recruitment from Bangladesh.

A man and a woman from two different countries can make a happy family if they respect each other's culture and values.

A preventive team with help of airport customs detains two Chinese citizens with 6kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

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Nine women ambassadors based in Bangladesh including Bhutan, Brazil, Denmark, France, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Sri Lanka and the US emphasise the urgent need to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in the country, in their own countries, and across the globe.

Malaysian Immigration Department detained 89 foreigners of eight nationalities including 15 Bangladeshis for various immigration offences in a raid at a plywood factory in Kedah state on Tuesday.

A former Malaysian diplomat in New Zealand has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a woman in Wellington last year.

Malaysia will probe allegations of work permit abuse of more than 20,000 Bangladeshis who are believed to have faulty employment passes.

Malaysian authorities say already tight security has been increased at and near the venue of the ASEAN summit following a reported, but unconfirmed, terrorist threat.

The cabinet sends back the draft agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia governments for sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia as both countries are yet to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard.

The CCTV footage is of an angry altercation involving a Bangladeshi worker and a male customer regarding the cleaning of the interior of a luxury SUV at a car wash in Malaysia. The worker is slapped on the face several times.

A 45-second video of a topless man performing stretches in the middle of a Malaysian highway has gone viral over the past few days.

Amnesty International said Bangladeshi migrants and persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar faced "hellish" conditions on trafficking boats.

A number of 114 Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued by the Malaysian authorities from the Andaman Sea last May, return home.

A partial reconstruction of a Malaysia Airlines jet made of wreckage found strewn across eastern Ukraine tells the graphic story of its violent last moments after being hit by a surface-to-air missile.

International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a Dutch paper says.