LABOUR-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Mar 23 (IPS) - An official guideline for employers to retrench their foreign workers ahead of local employees has alarmed civil society society groups who fear that indebted migrant workers could be sent home with ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Mar 5 (IPS) - It has already been dubbed "Pokok Demokrasi" or Democracy Tree and is set to enter the annals of folklore in Ipoh, capital city of Perak state. In an open space beneath this 60-foot high rainforest ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: IPOH, Perak, Feb 10 (IPS) - During a tense press conference, in the midst of the current constitutional crisis in this state, peninsualar Malaysia's second largest, a reporter's MP3 recorder/handphone began ringing. The ...
MALAYSIA: KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 16 (IPS) - Following the political tsunami in March, which propelled a disparate opposition alliance to power in five of 13 Malaysian states, voters in the capital of oil-rich Terengganu state will determine ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Dec 17 (IPS) - Dozens of cyclists promoting workers' rights are on an extraordinary odyssey across the country, scheduled to climax with the handing over of memorandums in Parliament on Thursday. It has been a ...
ECONOMY-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Nov 26 (IPS) - The global economic slowdown is slowly creeping onto Malaysian shores leaving many worried about the impact it will have on workers. Although Malaysia's financial institutions and banks are in ...
RIGHTS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Nov 12 (IPS) - Heavy handed police action against a gathering of Malaysians, near the capital of Kuala Lumpur, protesting against a draconian preventive detention law, suggests government nervousness at persistent ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Analysis by Anil Netto PENANG, Oct 9 (IPS) - It took exactly seven months after a severe general electoral setback for Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi to announce that he would not be defending the presidency of the ...
MALAYSIA: PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 (IPS) - Preliminary work on a 3 billion ringgit (875 million dollar) dam in Murum in the north Borneo state of Sarawak has put the spotlight on a controversial scheme to build a string of public-funded ...
MALAYSIA: PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 (IPS) - Who will foot the bill for the Murum resettlement? ''Is it Sarawak Energy or will it be passed on directly to the state government and hence the tax payer,'' asked one Sarawak-based activist, who ...
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