The Malaysian government decides to suspend the recruitment of all foreign workers to Malaysia, including those from Bangladesh, says its Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The deal to send 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia within the next three years has been signed.

Bangladesh inks deal with Malaysia to send 15 lakh workers in three years under government-to-government (G2G) Plus system. Under the deal, Bangladeshi labours will be recruited in almost every sector including constructions, manufactures and services.

The legalisation process for the illegal foreign workers including Bangladeshis in Malaysia will begin tomorrow, the Malaysian home ministry says.

The Government should focus on legalising the undocumented Bangladeshi workers who are already here instead of bringing in another 1.5 million. Tenaganita director Aegile Fer­nandes says that documenting migrants in Malaysia would be a far easier exercise than bringing in a new batch of workers.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft deal to allow Bangladeshi private recruiting agents to send workers to Malaysia following the failure of the government-to-government (G2G) labour recruitment system.

The cabinet today okayed a draft deal for ‘G2G Plus’ that will allow private firms to send workers to Malaysia through government arrangement. The government hopes it can send 15 lakh workers under the new deal over the next three years.

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Malaysia will now take Bangladeshi workers for all sectors including construction, industries, services and plantations.

Around 3 lakh registered Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia would have to pay the levy previously paid by their employers as the country yesterday imposed a new levy on foreign workers.

Malaysian police rescue a Bangladeshi expatriate over a week after he is kidnapped by miscreants. Four people are detained in this connection.

The world's "up and coming economies" are struggling to shake off corruption, an anti-graft watchdog warned today, citing massive scandals in Brazil and Malaysia as cause for concern.

Malaysia's top prosecutor has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of corruption in a long-running financial scandal that has gripped the nation.

In the wake of a series of controversies, the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur now says Malaysia's appointing a company would establish its absolute control over labour recruitment from Bangladesh.

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A preventive team with help of airport customs detains two Chinese citizens with 6kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

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Nine women ambassadors based in Bangladesh including Bhutan, Brazil, Denmark, France, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Sri Lanka and the US emphasise the urgent need to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in the country, in their own countries, and across the globe.

Malaysian Immigration Department detained 89 foreigners of eight nationalities including 15 Bangladeshis for various immigration offences in a raid at a plywood factory in Kedah state on Tuesday.

A former Malaysian diplomat in New Zealand has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a woman in Wellington last year.