Employers who are interested in hiring foreign workers will have to bear all the costs involved in bringing them into Malaysia, said Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin.

“The costs include levy payment and the cost of quarantine on arrival at the country's entry point," he told a press conference after the joint meeting between the home minister and the human resources minister on the management of foreign workers in Putrajaya today.

Hamzah (above) said foreign workers are required to undergo a mandatory quarantine period of seven days at government-certified quarantine centres and they could only enter via the Kuala Lumpur International...