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RIOT IN LITTLE INDIA, SINGAPORE: AFTERMATH
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In January 2014, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot had said that foreign workers in Malaysia are so happy.
HE IS WRONG!
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49 ARRESTED. DEPORTED SOON?
KULAIJAYA: The police have arrested a total of 49 foreign workers in connection with a riot at an electronics factory at the Desa Perindustrian Kulai 2 in Kelapa Sawit on Tuesday.
Johor police chief Datuk Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the workers, comprising two Bangladeshis while the rest are Nepalese, have been remanded to help in the investigation of the case, which have been classified under Section 148 of the Penal Code.
http://www.nst.com.my/node/27747
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TENAGANITA
Tenaganita programme director Glorene Fernandez revealed that this is not JCY’s first tussle with foreign workers.
“We have handled cases from JCY International before regarding their mistreatment of foreign workers.
“Previously, there was another case involving a Nepali foreign worker as well, which was brought to the industrial court but was settled outside court by JCY,” Fernandez told Malaysiakini.
She added that Tenaganita has previously conducted talks with JCY workers to educate them regarding their labour laws and rights.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/273016
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Separately, PSM condemned the treatment of foreign workers by JCY International.
“The management’s idea of punishing 20 workers – forcing them to play volleyball with a rock, and throwing a stone at their private parts – that sparked off angry protests by the workers is outrageous and reflects the impunity enjoyed by employers,” said PSM central committee member Rani Rasiah.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/273016
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JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd is a unit under public-listed company JCY International Bhd.
5:51PM Aug 28, 2014
‘Fiery riot’ firm unaware workers being abused
The management of JCY International Bhd has claimed that it is not aware of foreign workers being allegedly abused at its factory in Johor.
In a media statement, the firm said an investigation has been launched into the allegations, which have been widely reported in the media.
“The management is of the view that the incident (riot) was a result of miscommunication between all parties concerned and will take steps to further improve communication,” it added.
Among others, it was claimed that a senior staff at the Kulai factory had pelted the private part of a foreign worker with stones.
On Tuesday, enraged workers torched the factory building and a car belonging to a management staff.
Meanwhile, the company also clarified that they moved 23 workers from Tebrau to Kulai after the earlier riots to “calm” the situation in Tebrau.
“Twenty three workers were temporarily separated from the Tebrau factory and moved to the Kulaijaya factory for the purpose of calming the situation of the unrest incident that took place at a worker hostel located in Tebrau IV, Johor Bahru on Aug 22 and 23.”
It is believed that the riot in Tebrau last week ensued after a worker, Karka Bahadur Nirbula, died of sickness after not being given medical treatment by the company.
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RIOTS AT THE SAME COMPANY, DIFFERENT LOCATIONS! The company is JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd.
Malaysiakini
3:00PM Aug 27, 2014
Factory torched as Kulai riot escalates
According to Kulaijaya Deputy District Police Chief DSP Mohd Idris Samsuri, among the rioters, 13 were arrested last night while the rest were arrested after the earlier incident.
They were arrested under Section 148 of the Penal Code, which deals with possession of missiles at a riot.
“Currently the workers are being remanded and actions to be taken are being discussed with the (Nepalese) embassy.”
Mohd Idris said the police have also arranged a meeting between representative of the detained workers and the company management, with embassy personnel present to act as mediator and translator.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/272884
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HOW TO LOSE YOUR JOB: BURN DOWN THE FACTORY BUILDING!
Star
Wednesday August 27, 2014 MYT 9:26:40 AM
Striking workers in Kulaijaya torch factory building
JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd building burning.
KULAIJAYA: Some 800 workers of a factory here set fire to the building Tuesday night after they had stoned their employers office and burned down a car earlier in the day.
The workers, mostly from Nepal, set the electronics manufacturing plant in the Kelapa Sawit Industrial Area on fire around 8pm.
The Fire and Rescue Department arrived at the scene to control the fire at 8.38pm after receiving a distress call some 13 minutes before that.
The department managed to put out the fire at around 10.05pm.
Striking workers in Kulaijaya torch factory building
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Kulaijaya: About 800 workers, mostly from Nepal, staged a strike outside the building of an electronics company in the Kelapa Sawit Industrial Area here following alleged mistreatment by their employers.
They started gathering outside the JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd building from 8am and things got out of hand when some of them began to hurl stones and other objects at the management office and set fire to one of the employers’ cars.
The angry crowd also damaged three other blocks owned by the company.
Last Thursday, 21 August, 2014, there was a riot at the company’s branch at the Tebrau IV Industrial Area, near Johor Baru. About 1,500 workers showed their dissatisfaction over the company’s alleged negligence in handling the health issue of a worker, leading to his death.
They threw pieces of metal and glass, electronic items, chairs and boots from their four-storey hostel, smashing the glass windows of a guard post. A parked van was turned on its side.
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上週五，柔佛州新山發生的“外勞騷亂推翻轎車”事件才告一段落，同一間工廠位于古來25哩新沙威工業區的電腦硬盤製造分廠，週二（26日）上午8時又發生尼泊爾外勞騷亂事件。
外勞疑不滿工廠資方的福利津貼刻薄、日常工作又常遭挨打，加上有外勞因早前騷亂事件被“整蠱”，半夜被逼玩拋沙球遊戲，不滿情緒一觸即發。
聯邦后備隊週二晚上8時5分展開逮捕滋事外勞行動，水泡車噴水驅散聚集超過12小時的外勞群。
古來工廠外勞騷亂升溫，其中一間工廠后方疑遭外勞縱火，黑暗中火勢驚人，聯邦后備隊水泡車立即噴水協助減緩火勢。
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Star
Wednesday August 27, 2014 MYT 7:23:57 AM
800 go on strike in Kulaijaya
Enraged workers: The employees picking up stones during a protest in Kulaijaya over the mistreatment at their workplace.
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案發時，1500名尼泊爾外勞和少數越南外勞罷工滋事砸廠，包括燒毀位于工廠B座的一輛轎車。左下圖為聯邦后備隊包圍滋事外勞，避免與廠方衝突越演越烈。(攝影：張來星)http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/555163
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Star
Tuesday August 26, 2014 MYT 4:27:06 PM
Striking employees stone workplace and set fire to employers’ car
The police addressing the 800 strong group.
KULAIJAYA: A group of about 800 employees of a company here staged a strike outside HDD Technology Sdn Bhd building Kulaijaya by throwing stones and burning a vehicle after the group claimed that they were mistreated at the work place.
The group’s representative Kishor Rai, 23, said on Tuesday that the company had been abusing them on a daily basis and they could not take it anymore.
“When we make mistakes, they hit us and this is just unfair.
“In fact, due to an earlier disagreement, the management even refused to send us our usual bus and we were forced to walk for about one hour to get to work,” he said.
The agitated group started converging at around 9am and are still protesting outside the compound of the building.
Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) and police officials were seen to be on standby outside the building and trying to control the rowdy crowd.
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At 2.15pm, a police official addressed the crowd with the help of one of the Nepali employee who translated his message.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/08/26/Employees-strike-foreign/
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A manager had allegedly forced a group of foreign workers to play “volleyball with stones” and those who refused were beaten with a stick.
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NST
Myanmar workers burn car, damage factory during JB riot
By BEN TAN – 26 August 2014 @ 1:51 PM
KULAIJAYA: A group of Myanmar foreign workers set ablaze a Proton Iswara Aeroback and damaged a factory in a riot at Desa Perindustrian Kulai 2, Kelapa Sawit here this morning.
It is learnt that the group of foreign workers had a misunderstanding with the management and went on a riot at 11.20am.
In the incident, the factory’s front facade was damaged, while a Proton Iswara Aeroback was set ablaze and turned upside down.
The Fire and Rescue Services Department was immediately despatched to the scene a
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Gambar sebuah kereta yg diterbalikkan & dibakar oleh pekerja Myanmar di JCY Kulai. TERINGAT PENYOKONG BERSIH.. pic.twitter.com/NBvmGBB3b3
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Amir Amadeus Hafizi NST: Myanmar foreign workers burned a car and damaged a factory in a riot at Desa Perindustrian Kulai, Kelapa Sawit, Kulaijaya in Johor Baru
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Star
Saturday August 23, 2014 MYT 3:13:40 PM
One thousand foreigners refuse to work following death of fellow colleague
JOHOR BARU: More than 1,000 foreign workers have allegedly refused to go to work for more than 36 hours at a mechanical component factory here following the death of their Nepalese colleague.
The drama unfolded on Thursday where the workers, mostly from Nepal, threw metal pieces and glass to the ground from their four-storey accommodation quarters next to the factory in Jalan Firma 3 at the Tebrau IV industrial area here as a sign of protest.
It was learned that the strike was to show their dissatisfaction due to the death of a Nepalese worker who had died of chest pains on Thursday due to the factory’s alleged negligence.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/08/23/Foreign-workers-refuse/
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這起外勞騷亂事件于今日傍晚6時許，在新山地不老第四工業區某電腦硬盤廠一外勞宿舍發生；這間外勞宿舍曾于2010年發生騷亂。
據了解，這群外勞聲稱因不滿廠方不給23歲尼泊爾籍男死者看醫生，或導致死者病逝而發起暴動。據悉，男死者才到工廠上班不久。
The labour unrest shortly after 6 o’clock in the evening, new mountain is not the old industrial zone IV a workers dormitory in a computer hard disk factory; the workers quarters had riots occurred in 2010. It is understood that this group of disgruntled workers claimed that the manufacturer does not give 23, Nepal born male, the doctor or lead to the deceased died mutinied. It is reported that the male, not long arrived at the factory. (Translated by Bing)
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WE HAVE HAD TWO NEAR RIOTS SINCE THE RIOT IN LITTLE INDIA, SINGAPORE. We had been warned that it could happen to us in Malaysia.
1 On 11 January, 2014, about 300 Nepalis almost rioted at Kulim, Kedah.
2 On 13 December, 2013, a big crowd of Indonesian workers converged at the Pusa police station near Betong, Sarawak, following the death of their colleague.
Our Human Resources Minister, Richard Riot, has chosen to ignore the warning. He is like an ostrich, head stuck in the ground.
He says, “NO RIOT IN MALAYSIA!”
Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot said that foreign workers in Malaysia are happy.
Well, he may have to eat his words.
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WE GOT AWAY WITH IT BY THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH!
If newspaper reports are to be believed in, it was a near thing, almost a riot!
It happened in Kedah.
ntv7 video
– See more at: http://www.ntv7.com.my/7edition/local-en/NEPALESE_WORKERS_STAGE_RIOTS_AFTER_EMPLOYER_IGNORES_DYING_COLLEAGUE.html#sthash.wIeHAkvN.dpuf
– See more at: http://www.ntv7.com.my/7edition/local-en/NEPALESE_WORKERS_STAGE_RIOTS_AFTER_EMPLOYER_IGNORES_DYING_COLLEAGUE.html#sthash.wIeHAkvN.dpuf
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NST
12 January 2014| last updated at 10:59PM
Superstition led to protest by 200 Nepalese factory workers
ALOR STAR: Superstition led 200 Nepalese workers to stage a protest in front of a plywood factory in Jabi, Pokok Sena here last night which resulted in three of them being detained by police.
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Star
Sunday January 12, 2014 MYT 4:22:09 PM
200 Nepali workers protest over death of three countrymen
Three of the detained Nepalese workers were seen inside a police patrol car leaving the scene.
200 Nepali workers protest over death of three countrymen
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（亞羅士打12日訊）3名尼泊爾外勞猝死案引起同鄉不滿，其中3人號召約200人聚集工廠外要真相，更砸破保安室財物，氣氛一氛緊張，警方最后將3名涉嫌煽動者押返警局助查。
這起事件于昨晚8時許，在爪美一間夾板廠外發生。
詳細報導請翻閱今晚∕明日《中國報》！
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NST
12 January 2014| last updated at 12:51PM
Nepalese workers try to stage riots in Pokok Sena
The windowpane of a security post at a factory in Pokok Sena broken by Nepal workers who attempted to riot. — Photo by Sharul Hafiz Zam
Three of the Nepal workers believed to be the leaders, arrested. — Photo by Sharul Hafiz Zam
Kota Setar Public Order and Traffic chief DSP Mat Akhir Jaafar, “Initial investigation found that the reason the workers acted that way was because there have been three cases of sudden deaths involving the factory workers at the hostel and the employer did nothing to find out the reason for the deaths.”
Malaysian Insider
Nepalese workers try to stage riots in Pokok Sena following colleague’s death – Bernama
A group of Nepalese factory workers in Pokok Sena near Alor Star, Kedah, tried to stage riots last night after getting furious with their employer who allegedly ignored one of their colleagues who was having difficulty breathing.
In the 9pm incident, between 100 and 200 workers gathered in front of the employer’s house, demanding him to take immediate action to help the worker whose condition was worsening at the workers’ hostel.
Fearing something bad would happen, the employer refused to come out to meet the workers, but instead alerted the police.
The Nepalese workers became more furious after realising that their friend had died of shortness of breath and blamed it on the employer.
However, a team of policemen, who arrived at the scene about 20 minutes later, managed to disperse the workers.
Star
Sunday January 12, 2014 MYT 7:38:13 AM
200 Nepali workers protest over death of three countrymen
ALOR SETAR: A group of 200 Nepali workers gathered in front of a timber mill in Jabi near here to protest against the death of their three co-workers.
They staged the protest in front of the mill at 8pm on Saturday until they were dispersed by the police two hours later.
It is learnt that they were concerned after three of their countrymen died due to suffocation at the mill’s hostel last month.
Kota Setar Traffic and Public Order chief Deputy Supt Mat Akhir Jaafar said police have arrested three men to facilitate investigations.
200 Nepali workers protest over death of three countrymen
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In Nepal, Where Slavery’s New Road Begins And Ends
Some 400,000 people leave the country every year to work abroad, often recruited by agencies that are really human traffickers. A close-up view of the human toll in Katmandu.
KATHMANDU — With tense hands, they clutch their boarding passes. Promises of a better life start here, at the international airport of Nepal’s bustling capital.
This morning, more than 30 soon-to-be emigrants are waiting in line in front of the check-in counter, set to take off for work opportunities in Malaysia or the Gulf States. Having never been on a plane before, one can see fear in the eyes of many these young mountain people. They all wear the same baseball cap — with the logo of the agency that recruited them on it – as if they were schoolchildren who might get lost.
This scene is part of the ongoing exodus of 400,000 Nepalese who fly out every year, as the estimated total now is some 2.5 million under temporary contract abroad (Nepal’s total population is 27 million) that doesn’t even account for the Nepalese working in neighboring India.
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