New Straits Times
2007/06/19
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| The Bangladeshis claimed they were fed leftover food from a restaurant. |
GELANG
PATAH, Tues:
They thought they were coming to the promised land,
where lucrative wages, plentiful food and benevolent employers abound.
Inter Press Service
By
Anil Netto
PENANG, Jun 19 (IPS) – He died a lonely death in a
budget hotel room in downtown George Town earlier this month, far away from home.
The death went unreported in the local media and unnoticed by most Malaysians.
New Straits Times
2007/06/18
PUTRAJAYA: People who ill-treat their maids may be barred for life from employing them.
The director of the Immigration Department’s enforcement division, Datuk Ishak Mohamed, said he would not hesitate to make such recommendations to the department’s foreign workers division.
Indonesian envoy: Get help from embassy
By : Mazlinda Mahmood
2007/06/18
KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian workers in distress
have been advised to seek help from their embassy instead of putting their lives
in jeopardy.
Bernama
June
18, 2007 14:18 PM
PUTRAJAYA, June 18 (Bernama) — Barely a month after the government
announced a pay hike for about one million civil servants, there is now a clamour
for the introduction of a minimum wage for private sector employees.
Bangladeshi workers not getting
actual salaries for greed of recruiting agencies, outsourcing companies
The
Daily Star
Porimol PalmaSun
June 17, 2007
Thousands of Bangladeshi
workers are living inhuman life in Malaysia due to unemployment and underpayment
because of cheating by the recruiting agencies in Bangladesh and the outsourcing
companies in Malaysia.
News Straits Times
By: John Teo
2007/06/16
THE tragedy of the mass shooting deaths at a wedding
in a longhouse in Song, Sarawak reveals the extent to which our nation’s
fate is now intertwined — for good or ill — with that of our giant neighbour to the south, Indonesia.
Bernama
June 14, 2007 23:04 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 (Bernama) — Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi said tonight Malaysia should not "overly restrict" the entry
of skilled workers particularly in strategic sectors as it could actually bring
benefit to the country.
