The leader at the Progressive Democratic Tribune (al-Minbar), Abdulnabi Salman, said that the number of foreigners in Bahrain increased by 27 thousand in the past 6 months, and thus the total number has exceeded 595 thousand foreigners residing in Bahrain.

New Delhi was working Sunday to feed more than 10,000 Indian labourers stranded in the Gulf with no wages.

Bahraini Ministry of Industry and Trade said Cabinet decided new amendment on percentage of investors' trade ownership.

The Bahrain Shura Council approved in its session held on Sunday (May 8, 2016) Decree 28/2015 to amend a number of provisions of the Commercial Companies Law issued by decree 21/2001.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini graduates of Nursing from the School of Medical Sciences denounced the Health Ministry's continued employment of foreigners while they have been unemployed since their graduation in 2014. This came after the ministry hired a group of Asian nationals in nursing posts recently.

The undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development Sabah Al-Dosari said that the Ministry has received complaints filed by foreign employees working in one of the private Bahraini hospitals stating that they have been deprived of their salaries for more than 8 months.

Bahrain Mirror: Official statistics revealed that the number of Indian workers in Bahrain’s private sector reached 210,739, including 204,341 males and 6,398 females, which constitutes 39% of the total workforce in the private sector.