Tag: #Malaysia
Articles tagged with #Malaysia
Nepal, Bangladesh reject Malaysian conditions
Ball back in Malaysia court on its strict new migrant labour recruitment criteria
Nepali migrant workers rebuild lives
How survivors of the earthquake on 3 November 2023 have found new hope for the future in Malaysia
Who gets to recruit for Malaysia?
Malaysia’s 10-point recruiter selection criteria risks punishing the good migration actors
Homecoming
Nepal has to plan for the day when more migrant workers start coming back, so they can contribute to the economy
The Malaysia-Nepal migrant scam nexus
Rinji Rai, 47, had been in the labour recruitment business for two decades, connecting Nepali workers with employment overseas. His Marvelous…
The Malayan rainforest and its rare flower
The Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, growing in the jungles where Gurkhas fought a guerrilla war
Tale of a modern day lahure
Gorkhali troops fought in Malaya in WWII, now Gorkhalis join an army of migrant workers there
Close encounter with death
Nepali migrant workers bring home the body of a coworker who died on the job in destination country. Photo: GOPEN RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEI came…
No country for young men
Photo: SHANKAR DAHALNepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as…
The Days of International Migration
International Migrants Day on 18 December is a fitting time to take another long hard look at the migrant labour that sustains Nepal’s economy.…
Nepalis queueing up all night for proof of jab
Vaccine certificates are just another in a long checklist of permits and authorisations for Nepali workers headed overseas
Night of the firefly
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
The fading light of Nepal’s fireflies
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी firefly, chasing these fascinating flashing bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
History of female (im)mobility in Nepal
A proposal by Nepal’s Immigration Department requiring consent from a guardian and local government for women under the age of 40 travelling to…
A few good agents
Recognising good examples among migrant worker recruiters is as important as holding the bad ones accountable
Nepalis in Malaysia to gain from amnesty
A Nepali security guard at a department store in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Om Astha Rai / Nepali Times ArchivesThe Malaysian government has initiated…
In the minds of Nepal’s migrant workers
Illustration: SAMBHRANT BISTAThere was a collective, albeit cautious, sigh of relief in Nepal when overseas remittances defied prediction and…
The theory and practice of zero-cost migration
Nepali Times Archives/Om Astha RaiNepal has set a positive image in the region for adopting a ‘employer pays’ principle that removes the cost…
Nepal to lift quota on flights
Faced with criticism from migrant workers and Nepal’s embassies abroad for allowing only a limited daily quota of passengers to fly into…
Defying predictions, Nepal’s remittances still high
Photo: Pattabi RamanDespite dire predictions about a drastic drop in remittances that Nepal gets from its workers abroad due to the Covid-19…
From letters to landlines, phones to Facebook
When Kalim Miya in the UAE and Bhumika in Kuwait found themselves stranded abroad after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, they took to social…
Global glove makers compensate Nepali workers
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases demand for latex gloves worldwide, Malaysian glove makers accused of exploitation of migrant workers,…
High-risk remittance
Photo: UPASANA KHADKAThe Nepal government knows how much this country is dependent on remittances from Nepalis working abroad. It pays the…
Malaysian police says Nepali beat Nepali
Stills from the video of the Nepali guard being beaten mercilessly by someone identified as a Malaysian Tamil supervisor of the firm, Allied…