March 4, 2009 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Flextronics International, one of the world's largest contract manufacturers, is shutting an assembly plant in Malaysia and laying off 1,382 workers at the end of the month, a government official said on Tuesday. A spokeswoman from the retrenchment operations centre of the Ministry of Human Resources told Reuters Flextronics had notified it that it intends to lay off 1,382 workers from its assembly plant located in Shah Alam, a suburb of the capital Kuala Lumpur.
March 22, 2010 |
KUALA LUMPUR: At least 150 Indians have been stranded here after being duped by their job agent who got them into Malaysia and allegedly fled with their documents and money, an Indian High Commission official said here today. "Thirty nine Indians came to us to seek help, we immediately arranged for a shelter for them," the official told PTI adding that according to the men at least 111 others were also stranded at various places in the city. A local daily said most of them are from Bihar and Maharashtra.
May 24, 2010 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Monday said it will restore the visa-free transit facility for Indian nationals from July one as part of its efforts to boost tourist inflow from India. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the facility extended to India and three other countries would benefit Malaysia's tourism industry. The facility has been extended to nationals of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka too. "At one time, we had it (the visa-free transit facility)
March 23, 2006 |
MUMBAI: Bank of Maharashtra on Thursday said it has received approval from Reserve Bank for setting up a joint venture banking company in Malaysia in partnership with Bank of Baroda and Oriental Bank of Commerce. The JV banking company would, however, be set up subject to the regulatory approvals of the host country, Bank of Maharashtra informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The board members had earlier given their approval for setting up the banking company in Malaysia, it added.
April 16, 2004 |
NEW DELHI: A 10-member CII team is visting Singapore and Malaysia during April 20-23 to learn about the HR policies, productivity and industrial relations of the business people of those countries. The mission would be led by NTPC Additional General Manager, HR, Saptarshi Roy, a CII release said in New Delhi on Friday. In Malaysia, the delegation would meet officials of the HR ministry and visit local oil giants, Petronas and Proton to learn about their work culture. It would also interact with trade union leaders.
June 9, 2008 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia wants the fuel price issue to top the agenda at this month's meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Uganda, Foreign Minister Rais Yatim said Monday. "Malaysia would like to say, in our next meeting, this is the pivotal issue and no other topic would supersede this," Rais told a conference on bridging the gap between the Muslim World and the West. Malaysia is the current chair of the 57-nation grouping, the world's largest forum of Islamic nations, which is to meet in Kampala in Uganda from June 18-20.
November 5, 2012 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is working to introduce a unique biometric tracking system , that it says will more effectively allow its Immigration Department to track foreigners who overstay. Many foreigners misuse their social visit passes and stay on in Malaysia to work illegally, including taking part in activities of vice. In the past, Malaysia has said that thousands of Indian nationals had stayed back in the country long after the expiry of their visas. Immigration department said according to records, nationals from China and India formed the largest number of visitors to Malaysia.
January 11, 2010 |
PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia): Nearly 40,000 Indian nationals have gone "missing" in Malaysia after the expiry of their tourist visas, Malaysian Prime Minister Mohd Najib Tun Razak said on Monday, indicating that he may take up the issue with New Delhi during his forthcoming visit to India. "Almost 39046 are missing. Thankfully they have not become terrorists. They are here for economic reasons," he said adding that "their names are not in official records. " "They may have gone back to India or working here in restaurants or plantations," Najib told visiting Indian journalists here.
May 18, 2008 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's premier admitted on Sunday that religion continues to be a sensitive issue in the multicultural nation but said he hoped that conflicts could continue to be resolved peacefully. "Malaysia is fortunate as the people of various races and religions in the country can live in peace and harmony all this while," Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. "The constitution guarantees the freedom to practise any faith although Islam remains as the official religion," Abdullah said in the statement ahead of the Buddhist Wesak Day celebrations on Monday.
July 18, 2005 |
KOLKATA: Silk goods exports to Malaysia had jumped more than four times in '04-05. This helped the country to increase its overall silk goods exports by 4.6% to Rs 2,747.7 crore in the year, despite facing shrinking demand for its silk products in some European countries and the US. As Malaysia has just started picking up silk goods from India, the four-fold growth in its import from India fetched the latter a mere Rs 47.6 crore from its silk goods export to that country during the year.