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Foreign workers will be covered under Sosco soon.

Oct 26, 2018

Foreign workers will be covered under Sosco soon. 

Image:Utusan Online

The Human Resource Ministry wants to ensure they get the same benefits as local workers, in line with international guidelines. 

The govt also hopes to use the database to track the total number of foreign workers here, and track down those who overstay. 

In other news:

The police are working on the long process of repatriating 11 M'sians, 7 of them children, trapped by the war in Syria. 

Image: Utusan online

Police recently took a month to rescue a M'sian woman and her 2 young children, who were brought to Syria by her radicalised husband. 
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A second school in Selangor has been closed temporarily following a mumps outbreak. 

The first to close was in Kajang, followed by a boarding school in Gombak. 
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And a portrait created by an artificially intelligent program has been sold at auction for over 430,000 dollars.