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The previous decision to raise the minimum age limit of female migrant domestic workers to Middle East countries is to be implemented with immediate effect, government media reported.

May 17, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's post-war economic revival and tightening labour markets are throwing up opportunities for workers from abroad, including those who had left the island, business and state officials said.

Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who returned home Sunday after nearly four months in Sri Lankan detention camps, described their experience of spending 24 days adrift at sea on a broken-down boat, without food or water.