Malaysia's reliance on cheap foreign labour is reaching a quiet crisis point. Foreign workers comprise about two million of Malaysia's population of 28 million, with nationals from Indonesia ...

Malaysia can wean itself of its over-reliance on low-skilled foreign labour by investing heavily in automation and ... Fixing Malaysia’s deadly addiction to cheap foreign labour. 02-Mar-2021, 07 ...

YONG PENG, Malaysia, Oct 7 ... Efforts to automate had been slow while producers had easy access to cheap migrant labour able to navigate plantation terrain challenging to machines.

After years of profiting from cheap labour, ... Malaysia plans to bring in a minimum wage in January of up to $300 (187 pounds) a month, ...

Watch: Jennifer Pak reports from an Indian restaurant in Malaysia Business may seem brisk at the Abirami restaurant. Over the course of a day, chef Kanesan will roll out a couple of hundred roti ...

Ketil Sd: If Malaysia truly aspires to be a developed nation, it must wean itself off cheap, unskilled foreign workers. For starters, unskilled foreign workers depress the salary of Malaysian ...

Malaysia is not on that list. Hong Kong is meant to be the Asia base.' The row became public after the Sunday Morning Post discovered that Cathay Pacific had placed the advert in the Star, an ...

Cheaper labour has historically kept Malaysia's average cost of palm oil production lower than Indonesia's, whose cost has been in the $400 to $450 per tonne range.

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The country has been facing manpower issues since Mahathir Mohamad was elected prime minister last year on a platform of cutting the economy's reliance on cheap, foreign labour. The workforce squeeze ...

I refer to your report that employers in Malaysia want the government to ease up on the clampdown on Indonesian workers. I think there is an important question here that must be considered ...

Malaysia's palm oil producers are racing to adjust to an acute shortage of workers due to the coronavirus and sharply higher costs of recruitment as they make changes in response to accusations of ...