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Malaysia plans to reduce its reliance on foreign workers by phasing out labour-intensive industries and monitoring investments closely.

KLUANG: Datuk Chua Tee Yong has questioned a point in Pakatan Rakyat’s manifesto to replace one million foreign workers with local graduates within five years of the Opposition’s rule.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- The fourth session of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah scheduled for March 5 to 9 has been postponed.

JOHOR BARU: In an attempt to escape capture, 21 Indonesians without valid travel documents jumped out of a moving lorry which resulted in one breaking his leg.

In the past 130 years, the number of foreign migrant workers in Malaya has grown from about 84,000 in 1880 to more than three million in 2010. Originally, foreign workers were predominantly from China and India and most were locked into semi-permanent “labour circulation” arrangements through their employment contracts.

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- A total of 1,345 illegal immigrants have been deported to their country of origin until Feb 19, said Sabah immigration director Datuk Mohammad Mintek.

PETALING JAYA: Unskilled foreign labour in our workforce could be driving down productivity levels, said the Malaysian Trades Union Congress.

The increase will depend on industry and type of work pass required. The lower the proportion of foreign workers in a firm, the lower the levies. -ST