Malaysia's striking doctors defiant after police probe, vow

Reuters
Malaysian contract doctors who staged a wildcat walkout on Monday in protest over unfair treatment are satisfied with the wide public attention their industrial action has received and will co-operate with police investigations, according to a spokesman.
Organisers of the Hartal Doktor Kontrak - or "contract doctors' strike" - estimated that some 6,000 to 8,000 of the 23,077 contract doctors in the national health care system took part in the walkout at 11am.
This Week in Asia could not independently verify the figure, but pictures on social media showed hundreds of black-clad medics holding placards and posters outside their places of employment just before noon.

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