41,000 ILLEGALS DETAINED

CAMERON HIGHLANDS: The Immigration Department has detained 41,018 illegal immigrants of various nationalities in operations carried out nationwide from Jan 1 until Wednesday. The department’s director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali said the detention was the result of 12,659 operations with the inspection of 165,490 premises. He said Indonesians were among the most detained, namely 13,614, followed by Bangladeshis (8,748), Myanmar nationals (4,068), Filipinos (3,549), Thai nationals (2,791) and others (8,248).