{"id":7486,"date":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/19\/priests-from-india-receive-certification-to-work-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","slug":"priests-from-india-receive-certification-to-work-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/19\/priests-from-india-receive-certification-to-work-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests from India Receive Certification to Work in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/National\/2483670\/Article\/pppull_index_html\">www.nst.com.my<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, February 20, 2009: Sixty-three Hindu priests, musicians and sculptors from India became the first batch to receive the certificate of eligibility to work in Malaysia after going through the Human Resources Ministry&#8217;s induction program. They will serve at 31 temples nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said the induction program, a condition imposed by the Immigration Department after a cabinet decision, was to familiarise them with the workplace, local culture and laws. He said the cabinet also wanted Malaysians to be trained as priests.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2007, the government had frozen the recruitment of priests from India.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nst.com.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, February 20, 2009: Sixty-three Hindu priests, musicians and sculptors from India became the first batch to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}