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The government will consider extending the period allowed to Board of Investment-promoted industries for employing foreign workers to ease the labour shortage in some sectors.

JOHOR BARU: They are illegal foreign workers but they look and dressed just like locals.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia feels voluntary repatriation and re-integration of returnees are practical solutions to the problem of refugees facing the Muslim world.

Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State of Kuwait on employment migration.

MANILA, Philippines - More Filipino workers are expected to get employed overseas with the lifting of the deployment ban in Northern Iraq and Libya.

MUSCAT The joint inspection team at the Ministry of Manpower, in cooperation with Royal Oman Police (ROP), has arrested 408 illegal domestic workers in raids across the Sultanate.

SINGAPORE: As the authorities seek to fend off a resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) here, non-government organisations (NGOs) have backed the medical fraternity's call for more comprehensive screening for foreigners.

KLANG: A day out in town yesterday turned out to be a bad idea for 250 foreigners when they were caught in the middle of an Immigration Department’s dragnet.