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Top Glove's expansion hampered by lack of foreign workers

Glove-making machines churn out millions of gloves in this Top Glove factory.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Top Glove, Malaysia's largest natural rubber glove manufacturer, is eyeing expansion in Thailand amid Malaysia's ongoing foreign worker policy flip-flop.

"It's the survival of the fittest. Rubber City in Thailand is more advanced than Malaysia," Top Glove Executive Chairman Lim Wee Chai said during a visit to a Top Glove factory Monday.

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