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BUTTERWORTH, May 23 (Bernama) -- The Penang Immigration Department detained 44 illegal foreign workers, including five women, in an operation at the Raja Uda Ferry Terminal here Thursday.

KOTA KINABALU: Priority is given to local job seekers to fill up vacancies that are advertised by employers in the state, Sabah Labour Department Director, Datuk Siti Aishah Mohd Asri said.

KOTA KINABALU: OIL palm plantations depend  on foreign labour as they are hardworking and productive.

KOTA KINABALU: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrant issues in Sabah yesterday heard that no one has been charged in court for illegal electricity connections at squatter colonies in Sabah due to difficulties in identifying the culprits.

KOTA KINABALU: The presence of a large migrant population in Sabah poses a certain security threat to the state and its people, police chief Datuk Hamza Taib told the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

KOTA KINABALU: Building more housing for locals could reduce the number of squatter colonies in the state, Lahad Datu Executive Officer Mohd Fauzi Abdul Kadir said yesterday.

We see them in our home. We see them in supermarkets. We see them in the familiar security guard uniforms at shopping centres, apartment complexes and gated housing developments.

KUALA LUMPUR - A group of 54 foreign workers travelling to their places of work on a bus were stopped and assaulted by a group of about 150 people near Pandamaran Klang.