After seeing their number rise for over a decade, the population of expatriates, prominently Bangladeshi migrant workers, in Oman is witnessing a d

More than 21,000 expatriate workers violated labour and residence laws in 2016, a new report by the Ministry of Manpower has revealed recently.

Three members of a Bangladeshi family, including two siblings, were killed in a road accident in Oman on Tuesday night. Family sources here

A bright teenager busy looking for a college place after graduating from high school, Abdul Qader’s life was cut short as he returned home fr

The Ministry of Manpower (MoM) has mooted a proposal to hike the labour clearance fee for foreign workers from the present RO201. The fee is paid b

Many migrant domestic workers are trapped in abusive employment in Oman, their plight hidden behind closed doors, Human Rights Watch said in a repo

Absconding and ‘free visa’ workers in Oman are ‘haunting’ embassy officials and social workers after death, because of the

Higher recruitment costs, resulting from new fees such as those introduced by the Royal Oman Police (ROP) on Sunday, will affect companies recruiti

Muscat: A proposal to revise the visa renewal fee for expatriate workers in Oman has been submitted by a Majlis Al Shura member, aiming at fair pra

Following Russia’s bombing of Aleppo, another wave of refugees has reached Turkey, raising alarms in Europe about the possibility of some of

For years, skeptics warned of multiple threats to the European project. The strains of the single currency, they said, would rip it apart. Excessiv

The government has decided to get Bangladeshis living abroad with families registered to bring them under converge of the welfare fund run by the w

Bangladesh government pays no attention to the thousands of the country’s workers who toil abroad without getting proper treatment during sic

The world has entered an era in which people are being displaced at an unprecedented rate. In 2014, conflict and persecution forced 42,500 people a

Immigration is a hot topic in the media at the moment. Whether its news stories of Syrian refugees escaping conflict, Libyans sailing on rickety bo

The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate system

While the high number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in 2015 has increased pressures and tensions, this is not a crisis beyond the cap

During my stay in Britain in the early 1970s, there was a residency law that would enable foreigners to live in the country. All that they had to d

An article in a local Arabic daily focused on the increasing control which expatriate workers have over the Saudi retail sector. The writer Saad Al

The problem of recruiting domestic help from Indonesia and the never-ending negotiation between government departments on both sides was the main t