Why don´t the Malaysian goverment let MM2H expats work?, my wife was born in Penang, studied nursing in the UK but now has a British passport, result; not allowed to work, all that experience wasted. Also, with our apartment costs we have invested nearly a million RM in Malaysia, surely we could get something more back than a cheap car.
An example, we moved to Spain 25 years ago and within a few years employed up to 14 people paying over 5,000 Euros a month in Social Security, why not let us do the same in Malaysia with the proviso we only employ the locals?.
I suspect it may be too much paperwork for the goverment, mind you if I was a penniless Bangladeshi I could always get a sponsor/job.