Millions of Nepalis migrate abroad in search of better jobs and opportunities. They remit their income back home to support their family which has also been a major contributor of Nepal’s GDP.

One-hundred and fifty Nepali migrant workers in United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi are left in lurch after they were laid off seven months ago. The company that goes by the name Al Wasita Emirates for Services & Catering said it was unable to allot job and pay the due salary to the workers citing that it failed to get new contracts for work. The company employed some 1,000 workers from Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

A female Nepali migrant worker stabbed her colleague to death in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on Thursday.

Around 2500 foreign workers including 1300 Nepalis have been laid following the downfall of United Cleaning Company based in Qatar.

Oman’s Deputy Prime Minister Sayyid Fahad bin Mahmood Al-Said has said that Nepal has high strategic value and suggested visiting Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to reap benefit out of the development of its two giant neighbours India and China.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who recently attended the 72nd session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US, is making a four-day official visit to Sultanate of Oman before returning home.

Twenty-two Nepali migrant workers have been left in lurch in Qatar after the operator and manager of the company they were working for went out of contact depriving them of their salary. The stranded Nepalis have not received their salary of the past four months.

A Nepali woman, who has been sentenced to one year in jail in Kuwait on charge of theft of 20,000 dinar (approx Rs7 million), has appealed to Kuwait Appellate court for legal immunity.

Thirty Nepali migrant workers stranded at UAE have appealed for their immediate rescue.

A court in Bahrain has convicted a Nepali migrant worker of murder and sentenced him to life in prison.

A Bahrain court has sentenced a Nepali migrant worker to life in prison for the murder of his own friend, Nepali Embassy in Bahrain said on Thursday.

A Bahrain court has sentenced a Nepali migrant worker to life in prison for the murder of his own friend, Nepali Embassy in Bahrain said on Thursday.

Twenty-three Nepali migrant workers have been stranded in Dammam Jubail of Saudi Arabia after their company allegedly refused to pay them their salaries.

Twenty-three migrant Nepali workers based in Dammam Jubail of Saudi Arabia have been stranded and their plight is deteriorating day by day. They have been working for Abdul Mohsen Al Mousa Company.

As many as 130 Nepali migrants working for different companies in Qatar have been left in the lurch for the past 16 days after the manager of the companies they worked for “ran away”