Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB)

December 2021

Recruitment of new staff in Malaysia, the lion’s share of the cost of the employer

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Consumer Desk: The employer will bear the lion’s share of the cost of hiring new staff from Bangladesh, including the plane fare. The agreement was signed by Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister M Saravanan and Bangladesh’s Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed. According to the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment, under the MoU, […]

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Letters to refund customers of e-commerce companies without lawsuits

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Consumer Voice Desk: The Ministry of Commerce has sent a letter to Bangladesh Bank to expedite the refund of money stashed away by e-commerce companies against payment gateway companies. The letter was sent from the Commerce Ministry’s Digital Commerce Cell on Tuesday, sources said. On June 30, the Ministry of Commerce issued e-commerce guidelines. It has been

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Living climate change on the coastline of coastal community of El Manzano in southern Chile #2

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The last rains were in April. For the past two years, the water that planting and harvests depend on has not arrived in October, putting the futures of children including Odile’s in question. Hers is a sad story and an all too common one across the island nation off the southern coast of Africa, which

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World Food Programme calls for action as UN study estimates 22.8 million could face acute hunger #2

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The last rains were in April. For the past two years, the water that planting and harvests depend on has not arrived in October, putting the futures of children including Odile’s in question. Hers is a sad story and an all too common one across the island nation off the southern coast of Africa, which

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