EXCLUSIVE Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is causing a stir in Bangladesh after he postponed the much-awaited inking of the bilateral deal for the recruitment of 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers by Malaysia.

Zahid did so after sending a letter to the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry of Bangladesh, insisting that a “selected Malaysian company’s proposal” be included in the MOU.

“I hereby request that Your Honorouble to incorporate the selected Malaysian company’s proposal in the draft MOU that is currently being prepared...