India signed a bi-lateral labour mobility agreement with Malaysia on Sunday. The deal was signed by overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi and Malaysian Human resources minister Dr. S Subramaniam in Delhi.
The agreement would help to develop efficient mechanism for legal immigration and recruitment of workforce. It would also control human trafficking by agents. According to estimates, about 1.5 million Indian workers are working in Malaysia.
A Joint Working Group of officials from both countries has also been formed to implement the terms and conditions of deal in better spirit. It would meet every year to review the administrative progress of agreement.
New Delhi, Jan 3 : India and Malaysia today signed an agreement for improvement of conditions of recruitment and employment of their workers in each other''s country.
The MOU was signed by the Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and the Malaysian Human Resources Minister Dato Dr. S. Subramaniam in New Delhi.
The agreement sets out the broad procedure for employment of workers and outlines the responsibilities of employees, workers and recruitment agencies.
India and Malaysia agreed to facilitate employment of workers between the two countries and promote orderly recruitment and deployment of workers.
Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 2: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has written an open letter to incoming US President Barack Obama, asking him to abandon his caveman attitude.
The former prime minister listed his 2009 wish list in his weblog on New Year''s Day, appealing to the incoming Obama administration to end war.
"I welcome your promise of change. Certainly your country, the United States of America, needs a lot of changes," the New Strait Times quoted Mohammad, as saying.
Kuala Lumpur - An Indian man allegedly stabbed and slit the throat of his lover's husband during a heated argument over the affair, a newspaper said Friday.
The 40-year-old victim was believed to have confronted the suspect on Wednesday at a local market in the capital Kuala Lumpur, when a scuffle broke out between the two men, the Star daily said.
The suspect, an Indian national in his 20s, took out a knife to stab, and then slit the victim's throat, the report said. He was arrested shortly afterwards.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Indian man to 12 years in jail for causing the death of his employer who he claimed had sexually abused him and two of his fellow countrymen, reports said Thursday.
Nagarajan Vaithilingam, 27, from Tamil Nadu, India, pleaded guilty to the charge of causing the death of his 33-year-old employer by hitting him on his head with a stick at a barber shop in the southern Johor state in May 2007.
Putrajaya, Dec 31 : Employers in Malaysia have found a new way to deny salary to their foreign workers.
Bosses are using dirty trick like use of the ''Immigration Department'' to get rid of their foreign employees.
Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam claimed these employers acted as informants, tipping off the Immigration Department on their workers whose permits or visas had been cancelled.
This led to the workers being detained before being deported, Subramaniam said.
Describing this as ''cruel and unfair'', he said, "It could also tarnish the country''s image."
New Delhi, Jan 3 : India and Malaysia today signed an agreement for improvement of conditions of recruitment and employment of their workers in each other''s country.
Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 2: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has written an open letter to incoming US President Barack Obama, asking him to abandon his caveman attitude. 
Kuala Lumpur - An Indian man allegedly stabbed and slit the throat of his lover's husband during a heated argument over the affair, a newspaper said Friday.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Indian man to 12 years in jail for causing the death of his employer who he claimed had sexually abused him and two of his fellow countrymen, reports said Thursday.
