Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has suspended the recruitment of workers from India and Bangladesh, the government said on Tuesday. The ban took effect on December 31, 2007.
“The cabinet decided about two weeks ago to freeze the intake of workers from India and Bangladesh,” a Home Ministry official told Reuters. “Those already in the country will not have their work permits renewed,” he said.
“Frankly speaking, we have got enough workers,” Works Minister S. Samy Vellu, the only ethnic Indian minister in the cabinet, said on the sidelines of a conference in New Delhi. “The government decided it is enough and we don’t want to recruit any more because we have enough workers. Is it wrong?”
