Kota Kinabalu: Activist and surgeon Dr Chong Eng Leong lambasted the slow progress in digitally registering foreign workers and undocumented immigrants in Sabah, questioning the political will of both Federal and State governments to resolve the long-standing issue. .

PETALING JAYA: Dhaka is set to introduce new legislation that will legalise sub-agents in the overseas employment recruitment sector by the end of 2024, a Bangladeshi MP said.

ALOR SETAR: A 53-year-old United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholder is suspected to be the mastermind behind the supply of illegal foreign workers to areas in the north of the peninsula.

Kuala Lumpur: The Industrial Court has advised employers to treat their foreign workers with dignity, adding that physical violence and aggression at the workplace should never be tolerated.

PETALING JAYA: Over the New Year’s Eve weekend, nearly a thousand people gathered to protest the construction of two dormitories intended to house migrant workers in Teluk Kumbar, Penang.

BANGI: The Government has agreed to allow the hiring of foreign workers specifically for the plantation sector under the Ministry of Plantation and Commodities (KPK), said its Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.

PUTRAJAYA: The home ministry and human resources ministry intend to examine new regulations and improve existing legislation to address the issue of foreign workers being exploited after legally entering the country.

PETALING JAYA: Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said he and human resources minister Steven Sim will meet on Jan 16 to discuss the status of the freeze on the hiring of foreign workers.

KAJANG: Rahman (not his real name) could only cry as he listened to his mother asking him to send money back to his family in Bangladesh so they could buy food.

PETALING JAYA: The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) has shot down plantation and commodities minister Johari Ghani’s proposal to fine companies RM30,000 for each migrant worker they bring to Malaysia without having jobs ready for them.