The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

The ministry of foreign affairs yesterday said a website disseminating misinformation about Bangladeshis in Saudi has now been closed down.

Quoting the Bangladesh Ambassador in Saudi Arabia, a spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs said the embassy has been lobbying very hard for the past few days to close this Saudi website, according to a foreign ministry press release.

The ambassador also informed that from the next July the minimum wage level for Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia would be raised to SR 550 from the early SR 400, in addition to free food, free accommodation and free medical facilities.

The embassy has also started a charity clinic in Riyadh for less privileged Bangladeshi workers where they will receive free consultation, treatment and medicine, Bangladeshi doctors.

"This is in line with the current instruction of the ministry to focus on welfare", the press release said.