Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
Malaysiakini.com
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Aug 30, 06 5:01pm
For four years, they fought on the same side as a leadership tussle strained the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) to its seams. Today, they find themselves on opposite sides.
Malaysiakini.com
Alvin Yap
Aug 29, 06 7:33pm
Parliament Malaysian manufacturers are expected
to gain greater access to key US markets should a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
be inked, said International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Husni Mohamad
Hanadziah.
Malaysiakini.com
Pia Oberoi
Aug 28, 06 12:25pm
Migrants are human beings. All human beings have rights, and all human beings
have the right to have rights. This is a fundamental concept that should be
at the core of all debate, policy and action on migrant workers in Asia.
New Straits Times
26 Aug 2006
PUTRAJAYA: Public-listed Top Glove Corporation Bhd has been slapped with a
RM11.4 million compound for failing to renew the work permits of 1,769 of its
workers.
Bernama
August 25, 2006 15:48 PM
KANGAR, Aug 25 (Bernama) — Malaysia is losing more than RM6 million in foreign
exchange annually because the local people are reluctant to work at a sugarcane
plantation in Chuping near here.
Bernama
By D. Arul Rajoo
August 25, 2006 12:28 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 25 (Bernama) — Migrants now account for 12 per cent of the
labour force in Malaysia and 28 per cent in Singapore as almost three million
people in the region are leaving their homes each year in search of jobs.
Malaysiakini.com
Aug 23, 06 12:21pm
The government should allow workers from the electronics sector to unionise
and not deny them an effective platform to fight for their rights, said Parti
Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Malaysiakini.com
Aug 21, 06 1:05pm
Southeast Asian economic ministers meet here this week under pressure to accelerate
the creation of a single trade bloc and combat the rise of China and India which
are drawing away foreign investment.
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