The Daily Star Bangladesh 2 November 2018 Kuala Lumpur has opposed Dhaka’s proposal for giving the undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia a fresh chance to legalise themselves, say officials at the expatriates’ welfare ministry. The undocumented Bangladeshis will have to return home, a Malaysian delegation told a Bangladesh team at a meeting at the expatriates’ […]
The Star | 15 August 2018 PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate fraudulently running the Immigration Department’s rehiring programme has been busted, after earning some RM2.2mil in profit. “The syndicate has been operating through a company called Growing Global Multiple Business Sdn Bhd, which is registered as a travel agency. “The company offered rehiring services to foreign workers,
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By Teh Athira Yusof, Aliza Shah Straits Times | 29 July 2018 ENFORCEMENT agencies that vowed to rid the country of all illegal immigrants must recognise the actual number out there to address this problem once and for all, said those in direct contact with labour-intensive economic sectors. The number, they said, was far more
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By Nurul Azwa Aris Free Malaysia Today | 8 June 2018 PETALING JAYA: The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) said today there is need for a comprehensive policy on foreign workers based on the country’s economic ambitions. FMM vice-president Nathan Suppiah also said foreign worker management must come under the human resources ministry and not
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15 February 2016, Dhaka Tribune Malaysia has begun to register undocumented labourers today, including those from Bangladesh, with less than a week to go before Bangladesh and Malaysia finalise a new labour deal. The issue of importing Bangladeshi workers has been a contentious one in Malaysia, where the government and local trades bodies have been
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14 February 2016, Dhaka Tribune The land of promise for tens of thousands of Bangladeshi labourers, Malaysia is fast becoming a place of bondage for them. A loss of registration status has left between 800,000 and 948,000 Bangladeshi nationals, according to data from Malaysian rights organisation Tenaganita, vulnerable to low-wage exploitation or police raids and
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3 March 2015, Scoop.co.nz GENEVA / KUALA LUMPUR (2 March 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro urged* the Malaysian Government to improve the prevention of trafficking in persons and the protection of human rights of its victims at the end of her first official visit to the country. There is an
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10 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri, who accompanied President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s on his recent state visit to Malaysia, has announced that Malaysian employers will no longer be allowed to recruit Indonesian workers directly. “All recruitment of Indonesian workers for employment in Malaysia must be conducted by authorized labor-supplying companies in
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7 August 2014, eKantipur.com […] The Malaysian government has been granting amnesty to foreign workers who were staying in the country illegally so as to allow the latter group to return home after surrendering at the Immigration Department and paying a certain amount – 400 Malaysian Ringgit – as fine. Some 3,000 foreign workers staying
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16 June 2014, The Irrawaddy CHIANG MAI — A heavy crackdown on undocumented migrants in Thailand has so far mostly targeted Cambodian workers, although there have been frequent reports of arrests of Burmese workers, according to organizations working with Burmese migrants in Thailand. “There is no big crackdown on Burmese immigrant workers like on Cambodians,”
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