KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — A police officer and his wife were sentenced to 12 and 10 years in prison respectively by the Klang Sessions Court today for trafficking their Indonesian maid for forced labour exploitation, causing the woman to suffer severe injuries.

PUTRAJAYA, March 15 — A housewife was sentenced by the Court of Appeal here today to one year in jail for trafficking two foreign maids and exploiting them by making them work in her house-cleaning business without paying them.

JAKARTA, Dec 29 — Malaysia will review Indonesian domestic maid mistreatment cases to ensure that justice is served based on the existing laws in the country said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 — Employers identified to have ill-treated or taken advantage of their foreign domestic helpers will be blacklisted and disallowed to hire anymore of them in future.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — The National Security Council (NSC) has decided that effective April 1, the ruling allowing only 30 per cent of employees to work from office in conditional movement control order (CMCO) areas will be abolished.