Khaled: Ensure 1.5mil Bangladeshi workers do not create problems


PASIR GUDANG: Johor is not against the Federal government's decision to bring in another 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers if they do not create socio-economic problems.

Mentri Besar Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin (pic) said feedback from locals showed that they had expressed uneasiness with the presence of too many legal and illegal foreign workers in the country.

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