A one-off government-to-government arrangement for the urgent recruitment of 10,000 Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia has taken two months before a scheduled arrival today involving the first group of 30 workers.

Bangladeshi newspaper New Age reported that the workers, who are sent by state-owned Bangladeshi Overseas Employment and Services (BOES) Ltd, travelled free of charge as all related costs will be borne by employers in Malaysia.

New Age quoted BOES managing director Mallick Anwar Hossain as saying that they were...