Kathmandu, Oct. 15 -- Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) arrested four health-service operators, including Kailash Khadka, president of the Nepal Health Professionals Federation, on Wednesday evening from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, as a diplomatic dispute with Malaysia over migrant worker recruitment deepens.

The police action follows growing tensions between the two countries over Malaysia's selection of recruitment agencies. The Department of Foreign Employment has issued arrest warrants for the operators of 25 manpower agencies selected by Malaysia.

Prime Minister Balendra Shah and his Malaysian counterpart, as well as the two countries' labour ministers, had previously held telephone conversations to resolve the dispute. They p...