6P Foreign Workers' Amnesty Centre To Be Opened In Penang

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 (Bernama) -- A one-stop centre to deal with problems arising from the 6P foreign workers' amnesty programme will be opened in Malaysia's northern state of Penang on Tuesday, said Home Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam. He said the centre, which would be housed at the state Immigration Office would be opened everyday from 8am to 5pm. To smoothen the 6P programme, which will end on Jan 10, the ministry has text a reminder to 30,724 employers and foreign worker agencies and 10 per cent of them have replied, he said in a statement Friday. Meanwhile, Mahmood said four people including a woman aged between 21 and 50 years were arrested under Section 12 (1) (F) of the Passports Act 1966 for allegedly holding genuine, altered or fake passports without lawful authority. He said a Biometric NERS machine without a serial number but had the 'Jata Negara' logo and the word 'Malaysia' on it, a printer and 50 illegal immigrant registration slips with serial numbers, two Bangladeshi passports and two fake Indonesian passports were seized from them. -- BERNAMA