Dorms coming up for foreign workers


Closed down: The hotel turned hostel has 30 days to revert to its original use.

GEORGE TOWN: The conversion of a hotel in a suburb near here into a hostel for foreign workers was not done in compliance with the state’s guidelines, said Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon.

He said the hotel was also not among the list of places which had been approved to house foreign workers.

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