Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- Singapore has expressed their interest to recruit some 40,000 maids from Bangladesh although demand for the country's labourers has been shrinking over the world recently due to the global meltdown.
The offer came when a four-member delegation of Singapore's Association of Employment Agencies (AEA) called on Labour and Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain at his office in the capital Dhaka on Thursday.
During the meeting, the delegation, led by AEA President Shirley N Chion Peng, informed the minister that at present some 190,000 housemaids are required in Singapore, out of which they are willing to hire some 40,000 from Bangladesh and the number will be increased gradually.
The delegation also said that they would sign a formal agreement with the Bangladeshi government soon in this regard.
BBN/SI/AD-20Aug10-4:05 pm (BST)
