Compensation a must for foreign workers, say groups


PETALING JAYA: A bomb left over from World War II exploded at the MRT construction site in Bandar Malaysia. Three Bangladeshi workers were injured and within a week, all of them died.

Tonnes of laterite earth came sliding down a slope at a construction site in Penang, burying 11 people. Ten of them were foreign workers from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia and Pakistan.

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