A two-day food safety conference rounded off yesterday calling on the government to set local food standards in line with

Suffering a severe shortage of manpower, many Malaysian industries have been appealing to the government to review the

The Malaysia government has decided to halt the recruitment of new foreign workers into the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The low level of education of our workers is directly correlated to the low level of productivity. Without better education and technical training, we lose our edge. What is there not to understand? Yet, as always, it appears to take policymakers ages to come to terms with ground realities and get a move on.

The government will continue sending female workers for domestic jobs to Saudi Arabia, says Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam.

The reason many people do not like a market economy lies in the acid test of harsh competition. To them, the market economy is a story of losing jobs by being made redundant in the workplace.

Malaysian employers will bear all the expenditures while recruiting manpower from Bangladesh, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain says.