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        "id": 1393551,
        "msgid": "laid-off-foreigners-may-pose-problems-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-01-05 00:00:00",
        "title": "Laid off foreigners may pose problems",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Laid off foreigners may pose problems KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation warned yesterday that laying off some one million foreign workers amid the country's economic slowdown could pose social and security problems. The foundation's president, Lee Lam Thye, said the foundation was concerned as 80 percent of Malaysia's 700,000 construction workers were foreigners and the country's index crime had been steadily rising since 1994.",
        "content": "<p>Laid off foreigners may pose problems<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation<br>\nwarned yesterday that laying off some one million foreign workers<br>\namid the country's economic slowdown could pose social and<br>\nsecurity problems.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation's president, Lee Lam Thye, said the foundation<br>\nwas concerned as 80 percent of Malaysia's 700,000 construction<br>\nworkers were foreigners and the country's index crime had been<br>\nsteadily rising since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The unloading of a huge wave of unemployed foreign labor on<br>\nthe streets could lead to social problems and pose a security<br>\nthreat to the public, he warned.<\/p>\n<p>The number of index crimes -- a combination of property and<br>\nviolent crimes across the country -- rose to 108,807 cases in the<br>\nfirst 11 months of 1997, up 19 percent from a year earlier, he<br>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p>The government said Friday it was considering expelling<br>\nforeign workers as the \"cost\" of Malaysia's economic downturn,<br>\nwith an estimated one million people threatened with<br>\nunemployment.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/laid-off-foreigners-may-pose-problems-1447893297",
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