Ministry: More than a million legal foreign workers in M'sia

comments     Beh Lih Yi     Published     Updated

The Home Ministry said today that it has issued 1,163,194 work permits to foreign workers, with the bulk of these being for factory workers.

In a written reply to Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) at the Dewan Rakyat, it said Indonesians received 798,803 permits, followed by Bangladeshis (102,869), Nepalis (79,543) and Indians (47,349).

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