Malaysia Delays Illegal Immigrant Crackdown -- Paper
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Malaysia has called a last-minute delay in a planned huge round-up of illegal immigrants, the majority from neighboring Indonesia just a short boat ride away, newspapers said on Tuesday.
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Malaysia's express bus fleet could be taken off the roads for speeding and ignoring fines, the government says.
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Malaysia dismissed on Monday possible U.S. sanctions over human trafficking and warned Washington of alienating Muslims after it blacklisted mostly Islamic countries.
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Malaysia has hit out at Australian plans to base counter-terrorism teams in Southeast Asia, saying it&#39;s capable of dealing with any terrorism threat on its own.
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Malaysia will send a team of senior agriculture officials to Thailand next week for urgent talks on tightening border controls against the spread of bird flu, which has forced a quarantine of Malaysia's northern Kelantan state.
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Malaysia's drive to woo investment is losing traction, as efforts to get rid of red tape and inept bureaucrats falter, threatening to put it further behind neighboring Singapore.
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A Malaysian minister says there is no ban on workers from India, but a more stringent policy is in place.
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Malaysia announced on  Wednesday it has adopted a more stringent policy on recruitment  of foreign workers, including Buddhist and Hindu priests, but  insisted it has not banned Indian workers.
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Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned Malaysia's plan to introduce tough laws that curb the movements of migrant employees and allow employers &quot;to lock up workers.&quot;
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(InfoWorld) - A gang of thieves stole computer chips reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars in a Monday raid on an air cargo terminal in Batu Muang, Malaysia. "The incident occurred between 2.00 a.m and 3.30 a.m when the group, with weapons, forced its way into the [Penang International Airport Free Commercial Zone] facility after overpowering the personnel on duty at the Malaysia Airlines security checkpoint and the Royal Malaysian Customs office," Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn. Bhd. (MASkargo) said in a statement. Malaysian police are investigating the theft, MASkargo said. The gang of 20 thieves subdued 17 security guards using weapons and chloroform before stealing 585 cartons and 18 pallets of microchips and motherboards manufactured by a multinational company in Bayan Lepas, Malaysia, The Star newspaper reported Tuesday on its Web site. The stolen goods were estimated to be worth $12.7 million, making the theft the largest ever in Malaysia, it said. News reports in Malaysia have not named the multinational company that produced the chips. Several large companies, including Dell, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices, have operations in Bayan Lepas, which is near Penang.
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Indonesian authorities have delayed the imminent execution of three Christians found guilty in 2001 of violence against Muslims by at least six days, the national police chief said.
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Malaysia is sending more troops to its border with Thailand to check smuggling of chickens into northern Kelantan state, under quarantine for a bird flu virus that can kill humans, defense officials said on Thursday.
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Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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The prime minister of Malaysia intervened to head off rising anger among the Southeast Asian country's ethnic Indian population after a rare public rally involving 20,000 protesters led to violent clashes with police.
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Malaysia's only state run by the Islamic opposition party will get stricter about enforcing separate lines for men and women at supermarkets, an official said Tuesday.
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Pakistani electoral officials have decided "in principle" to delay a January 8 poll after Benazir Bhutto's killing last week sparked turmoil in the nuclear-armed country, but put off a final decision until Wednesday.
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The measure would have required illegal immigrants to return home before obtaining temporary legal status.