Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam has said Malaysia authorities will not detain any Bangladeshi workers until December as Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur agreed in solving the illegal workers’ issue. “Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur is maintaining close contact with the Malaysian government to find out a solution to undocumented Bangladeshi workers,” the minister told a seminar in Dhaka Sunday, reports BSS. Reports for Bangladeshi Migration (RBM) organised the seminar to find out the ways of solving the problem of the Bangladeshi workers who failed to obtain proper documents from Malaysia authorities within a stipulated time-frame. Malaysia authorities swooped down on thousands of illegal foreign workers and detained hundreds of them, including many Bangladeshis, hours after a deadline for registering them passed on June 30. “Kuala Lumpur is also considering hiring of 22,000 Bangladeshi workers through G2G (government to government) basis,” he said, adding that this would help to ease the workers’ problem in Malaysia.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 17, 2017 07:52 UTC