1.   The budget promised more liberal rules on foreign labour.

2.   PAPAR, Tues. - Youths have been urged to take up the many jobs available to help reduce dependence on foreign labour.

3.   As for foreign labour, the socio-economic repercussions of overdependence on them is only too apparent.

4.   At present, employers are required to recruit foreign labour themselves and go through the labyrinth of bureaucracy of the Immigration, Manpower Resources and Health departments.

5.   As the country takes steps to reduce its dependency on foreign labour, there will be opportunities in plantations, factories, hotels and restaurants.

6.   At the most, it may need foreign labour.

7.   Both groups maintain that the importation of foreign labour should be abolished in all sectors.

8.   But Mr Lee said the top leader would be fooling the public if he insisted bringing in foreign labour to take job opportunities away from local workers.

9.   DUE to labour shortage, lucrative wages and rapid economic growth over the past few years, there has been an influx of foreign labour into the country.

10.   Earlier, Dr Lim said the Government would soon lift the freeze on import of foreign labour in the plantation sector.