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        "msgid": "kl-lifts-freeze-on-foreign-maids-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-09-10 00:00:00",
        "title": "KL lifts freeze on foreign maids",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "KL lifts freeze on foreign maids KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia has been forced to lift its recently imposed freeze on the intake of foreign maids due to the high demand for domestic helpers, reports said yesterday. \"We will allow employers to recruit maids from Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines,\" deputy Home Minister Tajol Rosli Ghazali was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times news paper.",
        "content": "<p>KL lifts freeze on foreign maids<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia has been forced to lift its<br>\nrecently imposed freeze on the intake of foreign maids due to the<br>\nhigh demand for domestic helpers, reports said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will allow employers to recruit maids from Indonesia,<br>\nCambodia, Thailand and the Philippines,\" deputy Home Minister<br>\nTajol Rosli Ghazali was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times<br>\nnews paper.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have to lift the ban because we have received many appeals<br>\nfrom working mothers on the difficulties they have to endure if<br>\nthe freeze remained,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kuala Lumpur decided last month to freeze the recruitment of<br>\nall unskilled foreign labor which now accounts for 1.7 million<br>\npeople, or 8.3 percent, of its population. The measure was to<br>\nback Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's warning that a high<br>\ndependence on foreign workers could threaten the economy.<\/p>",
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