Malaysia's intention of depriving developing nations of their best human resources is not right

Take care of foreign spouses of Malaysians.... foreign parents of Malaysian kids first... before handing out PRs/Citizenships to other foreign nationals for all kinds of reasons...

Remember that many of these foreign students come from lesser developed nations, and  it is their country's hopes that they will go get the education/skill and return home to help their home community. What would Malaysia think when other foreign nations where we sent our Malaysian students to study also start doing the same... causing us a get national loss of these national resources. Malaysia should not 'exploit' weaker nations just because it can... Reap the best of their 'brains'...that really is not nice...

Maybe, if they are looking at tapping 'foreign resources' - maybe, we could be looking instead at accepting some refugees ... (After all, these persons are fleeing their home country looking for a new 'home').

TANAH MERAH: The Higher Edu­cation Ministry’s proposal that excellent foreign students be given permanent resident (PR) status is to tap their ideas for the nation’s benefit.

Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said all quarters should view the proposal positively as many developed countries like the United States were practising it.

“Only students at PhD level will be accepted and they have to be researchers or lecturers with local universities.

“We want to share the knowledge to develop the nation,” he said after opening the Tanah Merah Umno Youth, Wanita Umno and Puteri Umno delegates meetings yesterday.

Khaled said it was still a proposal, adding that the Government would not freely give PR status to foreign students but only to those who qualified.

“We are not giving it to foreign workers but foreign students with high knowledge. Other countries are also chasing after them,” he said.

Khaled said he was also confident that the Opposition would not use it as an issue for the general election as they too agreed with the proposal. — Bernama - Star, 11/7/2010, PR proposal ‘to tap foreign excellence’