Kuala Lumpur Malaysia will hire 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh in stages over the next three years, a senior official said on June 26, despite rejecting a plea from the UN to allow more than 150,000 refugees in the country to find jobs. Malaysian home minister Ahmad zahid Hamidi said that an agreement between Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur would be signed next month to formalise the employment of Bangladeshi workers, -DPA