KL cuts overseas training stints

KL cuts overseas training stints

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Fewer Malaysian government workers will be
sent abroad for training because of expenditure cuts brought on
by the currency devaluation, the country's top bureaucrat said
yesterday.

Instead, more domestic training centers will be created,
federal Chief Secretary Abdul Halim was quoted as saying by the
national news agency Bernama.

"We have over four thousand civil servants and students abroad
currently," said Dalilah Abdul Majid, spokeswoman for the Public
Services Department, which funds training programs for
bureaucrats.

"We'll still be sending, but in far fewer numbers."

Malaysia has said it could withstand the crisis that has made
all foreign exchange more expensive, but officials have been
asked to cut costs and the Finance Ministry has put many
expensive civil works on hold.