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Biometric fingerprinting for Bangladeshi workers

Biometric fingerprinting for Bangladeshi workers

August 06, 2011 | 12:00 AM
 
A legal worker from Bangladesh scans his fingerprints into the biometric fingerprinting system as part of the programme to register legal and illegal foreign workers, in Putrajaya August 6, 2011. From minding babies to erecting skyscrapers, Malaysia’s economy has been supported over the last three decades by a foreign workforce drawn mainly from Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Nepal as an industrialization drive created a wealth of low-paying jobs shunned by locals.
August 06, 2011 | 12:00 AM