KUALA LUMPUR : More than 200 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim their employers underpaid and abused them have sought refuge outside their country's embassy in Malaysia, an envoy said.
The envoy said there were about 350,000 Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, mainly engaged in the plantation and manufacturing sectors.
Many of the poor migrants paid thousands of dollars to agents to find them work in Malaysia where they hoped to make their fortunes.
Malaysia, Southeast Asia's third largest economy, has an estimated 2.6 million legal and illegal foreign workers.
They are critical to the nation's key manufacturing and agriculture sectors, and many household rely on foreign domestic workers mainly from Indonesia, Philippines and India.
