Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail is scheduled to visit Nepal in the first week of February following the announcement that 500,000 foreign workers are expected to be brought into Malaysia in stages.

Nepali newspaper Kantipur reported that Saifuddin, along with a representative from the Human Resources Ministry, will be heading to the South Asian country to better understand the situation of Nepali workers.

“Despite bringing a policy to recruit 500,000 workers immediately...