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Soon, you won't see foreign workers at launderettes and hair dressers

Aug 09, 2019

The goverment is planning to discontinue the hiring of foreigners for service sub-sectors like laundry, textile, hair dressing and goldsmith businesses in stages until 2021. 

This is to give more job opportunities to locals. 

The government will also look into the demand for foreigners in the warehousing sector, following suggestions from the Transport Ministry.

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Mummy's calling!

Police say even an able-bodied person will be weak after five days of being lost in a forest, which is why they're intensifying efforts to find the missing Irish teenager.

Nora Quoirin has been missing in the Seremban forest for six days now. 

The cops are blaring out her mother's voice through a loudhailer, hoping that will coax the teen to appear. 

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Cabinet to table B40 petrol subsidy

The government will announce the implementation of the targeted petrol subsidy for the B40 group soon. 

A joint paper between the Domestic Trade Ministry and the Finance Ministry has already been finalised, and will be tabled in Cabinet soon.