{"id":94802,"date":"2020-10-01T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94802"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:59:12","slug":"ministry-to-investigate-claims-of-forced-labour-by-fgv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94802","title":{"rendered":"Ministry to investigate claims of forced labour by FGV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The\u00a0Ministry of Human Resources will seek detailed information on the alleged use of forced labour by plantation company\u00a0FGV Holdings Berhad (FGV) in its production process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister&nbsp;Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said thorough investigation will be carried out before any action is taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBe patient. This (allegation) involves many quarters and it\u2019s too early (to comment). I have to get more information first,\u201d&nbsp;he told reporters after attending a leader-meets-people programme at&nbsp;Menara Manikavasagam here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States on Wednesday announced that it has banned the import of palm oil from FGV Holdings over allegation\u00a0that it used forced labour in the production process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US\u00a0Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said the ban was the result of a year-long investigation that revealed signs of forced labour such as abuse of the vulnerable, deception, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, and retention of identity documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Saravanan said he had also received information that another large company in Malaysia will face similar action by the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The\u00a0Ministry of Human Resources will seek detailed information on the alleged use of forced labour by plantation company\u00a0FGV Holdings Berhad (FGV) in its production process. Minister&nbsp;Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said thorough investigation will be carried out before any action is taken. \u201cBe patient. This (allegation) involves many quarters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":80235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}