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KUALA LUMPUR: Quick action by firefighters saved three foreign men from a fire which broke out on the third floor of a shophouse in Jalan Datuk Haji Eusoff here early Friday (Oct 21) morning.

Singapore News - Five of the 10 foreign workers who blocked the entrance of an Ang Mo Kio building over unpaid wages have been paid... Read more at www.tnp.sg

TANJUNG MALIM: The Statistics Department has recorded 2.1 million foreigners working in various sectors in Malaysia up to June 2022.

Singapore News - A group of nine foreign workers allegedly blocked the entrance of an Ang Mo Kio building on Tuesday afternoon over unpaid wages. In an 18-second video posted on Facebook group Singapore Incidents, five of the nine could be seen holding up pieces of paper, which were printed... Read more at www.tnp.sg

Azlan Othman Six violations of the Employment Order were recorded during Operation Sejahtera 155/2022 in Kampong Beribi, Kampong Jerudong and Kampong Katimahar by the Labour Enforcement Division of the Labour Department recently. An inspection at a grocery store in Kampong Beribi found two offences committed by the employer – allowing foreign workers to have unauthorised […]

President Joe Biden is set to import nearly 65,000 foreign H-2B visa workers to take blue-collar American jobs.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that has threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

KUALA LUMPUR: MIC deputy president Datuk Seri M. Saravanan has described the claim by some parties that the Deepavali celebration on Oct 24, ahead of the 15th General Election (GE15), as "political drama" by the Opposition.

Despite contributing almost RM 20 billion (USD 4.9 billion) in exports earnings annually, the public perception of the wood products industry in Malaysia remains unknown. Therefore, this study attempted to assess public perceptions about the industry in Malaysia among the public, including teenagers, based on 3,010 reliably answered questionnaire-surveys. Generally, the public perceived the wood products industry to be a low-wage economy, labor-intensive, predominated by foreign contract workers...

PUTRAJAYA: The Human Resources Ministry has warned against any third-party intervention to resolve problems in connection with applications for foreign workers facing employers in Malaysia.