TALENT Corporation Malaysia Bhd (TalentCorp) needs to be empowered to ensure that the agency achieves its original goal to bring home talents, including professionals who migrated overseas due to better offers. 

Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan said that one of the main challenges faced by the agency—established in 2011 under the Human Resources Ministry (KSM)—to achieve that goal was the difference in the value of the ringgit against foreign currencies, which made working abroad more profitable.  

“It’s not just the professionals but those at the lower levels, they still choose to go abroad and this is a big challenge we face because when they leave, we don’t have complete information of their whereabouts, or their field of work, including those working in Singapore. 

“That is the reason why KSM initiated TalentCorp to bring home professionals who have gone abroad but its performance is still unsatisfactory,” he told reporters after attending a Leadership and Management programme today. 

He also said that the government was developing a special portal containing data on Hindu temples nationwide to resolve any issues involving the community’s places of worship. 

He added that the portal would display specific information about the validity of temples in the country, including age, land ownership, organisation charts, and so forth, for more effective distribution of government allocations to Hindu temples nationwide. – Bernama, September 25, 2022.