Singapore plans to hire 45,000 maids from Bangladesh...

Singapore has proposed hiring 45,000 female domestic workers from Bangladesh on a pay higher than in the Middle Eastern countries.

Singapore is home to around two lakh Bangladeshi workers, but this is the first time it wants to hire female ones.

"Singapore needs 1.75 lakh female domestic workers. They would like to take 25 percent of them from Bangladesh provided we properly trained the jobseekers," said Nurul Islam, director of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET). More...

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