Tag - Immigration Department

Fifteen Thai ‘flower girls’ picked up in raid on Melaka nightclub

MELAKA: Fifteen Thai women were among 22 people arrested during a raid at a nightclub located in Taman Melaka Raya here. State Immigration Department director Anirwan Fauzee Mohd Aini said his officers detained the Thai women suspected of working as hostesses, while five Bangladeshi men employed as crew members at the nightclub were also picked up. “We...

Youth spends nearly four years in Immigration lock-up due to technical flaw on birth cert

GOPENG: A 26-year-old man has entered his fourth year at the Langkap Immigration Detention Centre despite being born in Malaysia and having a birth certificate. Mohd Farid Abdullah, who was born a Hindu and converted to become a Muslim when he was 12, was first arrested in September 2019 during an operation in Klebang when he...