Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar told Parliament the government set a new goal of 1.8 million foreign workers by 2010, from the 2.06 migrant workers currently in the country.
"We have managed to reduce the number of foreign workers by some 60,000 since last March.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 12 : Malaysian Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said that Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) chairman P. Waythamoorthy, whose passport has been revoked by the Malaysian Government, is free to return home.
The New Strait Times quoted Albar as saying that the government had never stopped Waythamoorthy from returning to Malaysia.
"We have just sent his new passport to the Malaysian High Commission office in London but he has yet to collect it." he said.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 12 : Malaysian Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said that Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) chairman P. Waythamoorthy, whose passport has been revoked by the Malaysian Government, is free to return home.
