Malaysia Immigration

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  6 Dead, Hundreds Of Rohingyas Flee Malaysian Detention Camp After Riots

  Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre.

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  Malaysia To Bar Long-Term Pass Holders From India, Indonesia, Philippines Over Coronavirus

  Malaysia on Tuesday said it would bar entry of long-term immigration pass holders from India, Indonesia and the Philippines from September 7, in a bid to curtail imported coronavirus cases amid a spate of new clusters in the country.

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  Indonesia Finds 193 Bangladeshis Locked Up In A Shop

  Indonesian police found 193 Bangladeshis locked up in a shop house after human traffickers had lured them with the promise of getting them to Malaysia, an immigration official said

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  Immigration Officers Find Man Smuggling Kittens In His Trousers

  Singapore immigration authorities said Tuesday they had foiled a bid to smuggle four kittens into the city-state stuffed down a man's trousers after hearing meows coming from the suspect's crotch.

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  10 Dead, 30 Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Malaysia

  10 people are confirmed dead and about 30 missing after a boat believed to be carrying Indonesian illegal immigrants capsized in rough seas off Malaysia, officials said Monday.

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  Malaysia Fires Immigration Staff For Aiding Criminals

  Malaysia has sacked 15 Immigration Department officers and suspended 14 others after an investigation found personnel had colluded with criminal syndicates to manipulate systems tracking entry and exit, the government has said.

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  Indonesia Migrant Boat Death Toll Rises to 61

  Sixty-one bodies have been recovered from an overloaded wooden boat which sank on Thursday off Malaysia carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants, maritime officials said.

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  Malaysia Denies Entry to Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist

  Malaysian immigration authorities today denied entry to Hong Kong student activist Joshua Wong, who had been invited to the Southeast Asian nation to participate in academic talks on democracy in China and last year's protests in Hong Kong.

• Malaysia Discovers 155 Uighurs Crammed Into Two Apartments

  Malaysian authorities have detained 155 Uighurs, more than half of them children, who were found crammed into two apartments in the capital Kuala Lumpur, immigration officials said.

• Two Dead, 18 Missing as Boat Capsizes Off Malaysia

  At least two people died and 18 others were missing after an overloaded boat carrying illegal Indonesian immigrants capsized off the coast of southern Malaysia, a maritime official said on Tuesday.

• 120 Indians awaiting permanent residence status in Malaysia

  Some 120 Indians, who have been living in the Malaysian state of Sabah since 1968, are yet to get their permanent residence (PR) status in that southeast Asian nation.

• Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'

  Malaysian authorities have freed 105 mostly Indonesian maids who were forced to work without pay by day and held against their will at night, local media reported on Monday.

• Indian in Malaysian jail threatens to kill himself

  An Indian man languishing in a Malaysian prison for over 36 months, though he was sentenced only for four months, now wants to end his life, a media report said Tuesday.S Nallusamy was jailed for illegally entering the country. He was detained by the immigration department in 2007 for not having travel documents after entering Malaysia in 2002, the...