Many foreigners misuse their social visit passes and stay on in Malaysia to work illegally, including taking part in activities of vice.
In the past, Malaysia has said that thousands of Indian nationals had stayed back in the country long after the expiry of their visas.
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Many foreigners misuse their social visit passes and stay on in Malaysia to work illegally, including taking part in vice activities.
According to records, China and India nationals form the largest number of visitors to Malaysia.
As many as 1.25 million Chinese tourists and 693,056 Indian tou-rists came to Malaysia last year alone.
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Touted to be the first-of-its-kind “Bio-Visa” to be introduced in the world, those who do not comply with the Immigration Department’s proposed Biometric-Visa will be slapped with a “Not to Land” (NTL) notice and turned back.
She said BN needed to double its efforts to master ICT, particularly the new media, in facing the cyber war and opposition attacks involving arising issues and twisted facts.
"The politics of today is a war based on public perception and in this age of technology which uses a lot of ICT facilities, anyone who is skilled in using ICT will have the edge in influencing the minds of Internet users, who are mostly the young," she told Bernama.
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Limbang Parliamentarian Hasbi Habibollah said such knowledge and skills were vital for them to discharge their duties effectively as the forerunners in the education development.
He pointed out that they had no valid reason not to enhance their skills as the government had continuously allocated substantial funds to equip schools with ICT facilities for them and their students to enhance their respective disciplines.