Malaysia economy's growing painsMalaysia -- No one can tell for sure how many migrant workers we actually have in this country. According to the human resources ministry, there are some 2.1 million registered migrant workers — what we call legal foreign workers — in Malaysia. Given the fact that we now have 2.1 million registered foreign workers, the number of undocumented ones could easily hit four million. Imagine six million foreign workers walking the streets of a developing country of 31.7 million. When the government froze the importation of new foreign workers, some local furniture factories had to wind up owing to labor crunch.

Source: The China Post September 16, 2016 16:18 UTC