{"id":19246,"date":"2017-08-28T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T01:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2017-08-28T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T02:25:45","slug":"a-good-potential-for-sarawak-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19246","title":{"rendered":"A good potential for Sarawak tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural to include Sarawak in their\u00a0program as there are a lot of potential for Sarawak, said Senator\u00a0Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim who received an answer from the Ministry was informed that\u00a0from the year 2002 to 2017, there was a total of 33,490 applicants\u00a0from 126 countries through such program.<\/p>\n<p>China headed the list with 8,785, Japan 4,242, Bangladesh 3564,\u00a0Britain 2416, Iran 1,337, Singapore 1,301, Taiwan 1215, Korea 1242,\u00a0Pakistan 1018, India 897 and other 7,473.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he was told the program brought in a total of RM3.2 billion\u00a0for Malaysia through properties sold, education, medical and\u00a0investment.<\/p>\n<p>The more popular states for foreigners are Selangor, Johor, Penang and\u00a0Wilayah and Malaysia is the sixth choice for foreigners in the world\u00a0with many coming from countries in Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Costa Rica\u00a0and Colombia for this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a Japan survey \u201cJapan Longstay Foundation\u201d, Malaysia was picked as\u00a0the favourite destination from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his sadness that Sarawak was not portrayed, Dr. Sim said he\u00a0will discuss with the cabinet on more involvement for Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim who is the Minister for Local government and Housing, he said\u00a0he hoped to have more homes build to cater to the needs of the\u00a0foreigners as a form of investment for Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>On another issue, the Transport Ministry has agreed to have more\u00a0funding for Miri airport to have more parking there.<\/p>\n<p>And for the Miri hospital, he said the tender has been out in April\u00a0this year. As a watching brief on the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sim said\u00a0he will continue to monitor these projects as the implementation is\u00a0through JKR.<\/p>\n<p>On the numbers of senators, Dr. Sim said there should be more for\u00a0Sarawak to speak out the issues for Sarawak. He said at the moment,\u00a0there are only 3 from Sarawak out of 70.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image145.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19248\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image145.jpg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image145.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image145-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image145-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural to include Sarawak in their\u00a0program as there are a lot of potential for Sarawak, said Senator\u00a0Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian. Dr. Sim who received an answer from the Ministry was informed that\u00a0from the year 2002 to 2017, there was a total of 33,490 applicants\u00a0from 126 countries through such program. China headed the list with 8,785, Japan 4,242, Bangladesh 3564,\u00a0Britain 2416, Iran 1,337, Singapore 1,301, Taiwan 1215, Korea 1242,\u00a0Pakistan 1018, India 897 and other 7,473. Last year, he was told the program brought in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19246\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19249,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions\/19249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}