All posts tagged "Malaysia"
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0Local NewsAll Arriving Passengers in Malaysia Must Now Complete Customs Declaration Forms
The practice was abandoned decades ago, and travellers have only had to make verbal declarations at most – that will now change....
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0Local NewsFrom Putrajaya to Prison: Najib Razak Jailed
Day 1 of 4,380: Disgraced former PM immediately hauled off to jail to begin serving his 12-year sentence after his final appeal...
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0Expat NewsMalaysia Embraces a New Digital Economy – Will Expats Benefit?
After simmering in the works for months, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri made the official announcement in July as the government rolled out...
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0Local NewsIs Malaysia Really The World’s 8th-Most Dangerous Country for Driving?
“There are three types of lies,” the saying goes… “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Keep that in mind when considering the latest...
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0EnvironmentSustainability: More than Just a Buzzword
Hidden in plain sight right there in the name is the key to sustainability’s success: sustaining it. At one Malaysian hotel, it’s...
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0Travel News & UpdatesSingapore Set to Ditch VTL Schemes and Just Reopen the Country
Meanwhile, Malaysia continues to plan additional VTLs while announcing that its own borders will be opened on April 1. After about six...
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0Travel News & UpdatesOmicron Surge Lands Malaysia on CDC’s ‘Highest Risk’ Travel Destinations List
Malaysia has steadfastly refused to open its borders to international tourists since March 2020, however, so this likely won’t have quite the...
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0Local NewsMalaysia Slips Again in Corruption Index
Corruption continues to bedevil Malaysia as the country falls five spots in Transparency International’s latest rankings. Changing the government (twice) in the...
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0NewsMalaysia Falls to the Bottom of Bloomberg’s International Covid Ranking
Following months of plunging rankings, Malaysia finally sinks all the way to dead-last place in Bloomberg’s monthly Covid Resilience Ranking. The Covid...
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0Local NewsWhy Aren’t Malaysia’s Covid Numbers Improving?
Despite the success of the ongoing effort to get large numbers of the population immunised, Malaysia’s Covid metrics all remain stubbornly high....
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0OpinionCovid Report Card: Grading Malaysia’s Coronavirus Crisis Management
Judging any government’s handling of an unprecedented public health crisis with major economic, social, and political ramifications isn’t as straightforward as you...
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0Local NewsWhy Are Malaysia’s Covid Numbers Not Improving?
Rising new daily case numbers don’t mean the vaccines aren’t effective and shouldn’t be a reason to doubt the urgent need for...
