Kuala Lampur, Sept. 13 -- Migrant workers from Bangladesh who came to Malaysia for work that would give them a better life have instead taken to living in shacks in jungles and oil palm plantations to escape their employers and deportation.

Local news site Malaysiakini and Bangladeshi newspaper Kaler Kantho published today a report on a group of 16 migrant workers near Kuala Lumpur who fled to an oil palm grove near a highway last year after being terminated from their jobs.

"Back home, the cows in my house live in better conditions," Al-Amin, a worker from Barisal in south central Bangladesh, was quoted as saying.

He and several other Bangladeshis living there claimed to have been fired for taking part in a workers' protest after thei...