Development can eradicate forced labour in plantations - Ramasamy

Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy says that Malaysian plantations will only see a full eradication of forced labour practices when plantation land is developed.

He said, at any one time, 68 percent of the country’s labour population experienced some form of forced labour and it “can only be swallowed by development”.

Ramasamy said forced labour was typically...