KL issues warning to foreign workers

KL issues warning to foreign workers

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): Malaysia has warned foreign workers it will revoke their work permits if they misbehave and ignore local sensibilities, following a brawl earlier this week involving about 200 villagers and Bangladeshi workers, news reports said yesterday.

Deputy Human Resources Minister Kadir Sheikh Fadzir also advised employers to keep a check on their workers or face losing paid levies and agency fees if their workers are deported home.

About 150 Bangladeshi male workers and 50 local residents were involved in a brawl at a village in southern Johore state late Monday, which stemmed from an argument between a taxi driver and a Bangladeshi passenger.

News reports quoted witnesses as saying the driver had admonished the Bangladeshi for fondling his woman companion in the taxi. The two men got into a fight which was joined by local villagers and Bangladeshi workers at nearby factories.

Police fired two shots into the air to break up the brawl in which seven Bangladeshis were badly injured.