foreign workers

The hidden villains behind Malaysia’s migrant worker surplus

30/11/2023 Elil Rani

If complaining were an Olympic sport, Malaysians would win first place for sure. Our grievances are plentiful–whether it’s the sun …

We compared employment benefits for Hantu Saka and pekerja asing. The hantu won

29/10/2021 Ariff

When we think of hantu, we’ll usually imagine a spooky spectre scaring us at night, because that’s what hantus do, …

The govt may ban foreign workers coming to M’sia… but what about those already here?

07/07/2020 Sabrina Noor

[UPDATE: 17 July 2020] We’re updating this article to correct a mistake made by this writer for attributing the Malay …

Guess how many foreigners are there in Malaysia? Even experts can’t tell for sure.

16/08/2019 Dhanhyaa

Last week, the govt decided to stop hiring foreign workers for service sub-sectors like laundry, textile, hair dressing and goldsmith …

KL businesses must now be 50% locally-owned & hired, so how does this affect foreigners?

12/12/2016 New Jo-Lyn

Last month, the media reported that DBKL had set a new regulation for businesses in KL: every business must be …

WHAT!? Is Malaysia hiring foreigners as scientists too?

14/03/2016 Johannan Sim

So you would probably know that the gomen is planning on bringing 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers over the course of …

Msian newspaper from 1897 shows what people thought of foreigners

19/02/2016 Johannan Sim

A few weeks back, CILISOS writer UiHua, went jalan-jalan to Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia. In the midst of his research he …

6 badass Malaysian documentaries from Al Jazeera’s 101 East

29/11/2015 Johannan Sim

So you may have come across this documentary a couple of weeks ago. Some of you might have heard of Al …

Should we stop foreign workers in Msia from sending money home?

23/10/2015 CILISOS Editorial Team

It’s an understatement to say that the Malaysian gomen is taking a lot of steps to save our economy. Stuff …

M’sians not racist? 6 expats share their shocking experiences

04/04/2015 Hanna Alkaf

Recently, this heartwarming video by Facebook user Calvin Ng made the rounds on social networks, illustrating just how painfully isolating living among strangers in …