KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 -- DAP Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng has urged the government to amend the law to enable only one ministry to be placed in charge of migrant workers.

He said the more bureaucracy there is, inevitably, there will be more opportunities for corruption.

"It is about time the government heed the advice to amend the law to enable one single ministry instead of multi-ministries to be in charge of the applications, vetting, processing and renewing the necessary documents for foreign workers.

"The plight of over 1,000 undocumented Bangladeshis in Malaysian prison calls for the need to streamline the processing of foreign workers' applications," Lim said in a statement here.

His call came after the Bangladeshi MP Tanvir Shakil Joy...