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GIVEN MH370 AND SABAH KIDNAPPINGS, CHINA’S CITIZENS ARE JITTERY ABOUT THEIR SECURITY IN MALAYSIA.
THUS, TOURISM MALAYSIA’S HOPES FOR 2,000,000 CHINESE TOURISTS IN 2019 CAN BE VIEWED AS NOTHING MORE THAN SELF-DELUSION.
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SABAH: NO END TO SECURITY PROBLEMS!
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THEY CAME TO KIDNAP THE OWNERS WHO HAD MOVED AWAY. Now they are being hunted.
Meanwhile, everyone is in great fear!
Star
Monday July 7, 2014 MYT 6:18:05 PM
Kidnap fear grips Semporna, cops order fish farms operators to move out
KOTA KINABALU: Security forces have instructed fish farm owners and managers in Semporna to move “temporarily” to the mainland following a failed kidnapping attempt near Kampung Bangau-Bangau on Monday.
“We have instructed all fish farm owners to move to the mainland as an initial approach to prevent the possibility (of further kidnap attempts),” Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/07/07/kidnap-fear-grips-semporna/
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Monday July 7, 2014 MYT 6:17:12 PM
Semporna hit by kidnap attempt
SEMPORNA: A massive hunt is on for seven masked gunmen in Sabah’s east coast waters at Semporna after a report that they were spotted at a fish farm in a kidnap attempt, about 200m from Kampung Bangau-Bangau here.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said a worker from the Ah Chai Fish Farm informed police that the gunmen appeared just after midnight in search of the owners, a Chinese couple from Kelantan.
However, the couple were not living at the fish farm and had moved to the mainland following a spate kidnappings in the Semporna and Lahad Datu areas.
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The armed men then went to the worker’s house and made off with a television, Astro decoder and two small bags as they could not find the couple.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/07/07/Semporna-failed-kidnap/
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Malaysiakini
11:59AM Jun 17, 2014
‘Sabah kidnappings dented tourism more than MH370’
PARLIAMENT The recent spate of kidnappings of tourists off the east coast of Sabah has affected tourism from China even worse than the disappearance of the MH370 Malaysia Airlines flight on March 8, Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz said today.
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Nazrisaid that 76 flights in total have been cancelled from Shenzen and Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu, including 10 MAS flights, 22 China Southern Airlines flight, and 44 flights by low cost carriers.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/265904
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Star
Monday June 16, 2014 MYT 12:14:30 PM
Kunak kidnap: One escapes from gunmen’s speedboat
LAHAD DATU: One of the two people kidnapped by Filipino gunmen from a fish farm near Kunak in the east coast of Sabah early Monday has escaped.
It is understood that a worker identified only as Maslan jumped off the speedboat of the gunmen while the whereabouts of fish breeder Chan Sai Chiun from Perak still unknown.
Maslan is believed to made his escape as the boat was speeding off and swam ashore to lodge a police report.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/06/16/Filipino-Kidnap-Escape/
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One Sabah kidnap over, another takes place
The Malay Mail Online shared a link.
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Malaysiakini
10:15AM Jun 16, 2014
One Sabah kidnap over, another takes place
Just as the kidnap of a Chinese tourist off Sabah’s east coast has been resolved, another kidnap has taken place in the same region.
Utusan Online this morning reported that a fish farm operator and a Filipino worker were abducted by a group of men in Kampung Air Sepang, Kunak at 12.40 this morning.
Four armed and masked men were reported to be involved in the operation to nab the 32-year-old from the fish farm along with the 20-year-old Filipino.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/265788
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Tourism Malaysia hopes for 2 million Chinese visitors in 2014
Jun 04, 2014
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia – Tourism Malaysia targets to draw two million tourists from China this year compared to 1.7 million last year.
Its deputy director-general (Promotions), Datuk Azizan Noordin said Tourism Malaysia was confident that more tourists from China would visit Malaysia this year due to the various promotional efforts carried out.
“The increase in the number of visitors from China helps Malaysia to generate more income from the tourism sector including its airlines and hotels,” he said after launching the ‘Hong Kong’s Evolving Harbour’ photo exhibition, here, Wednesday.
http://www.eturbonews.com/46556/tourism-malaysia-hopes-2-million-chinese-visitors-2014
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MH370
There were 154 China citizens on board MH370. Their kin are angry with what they consider to be lies from the Malaysian government. They also believe that the mismanagement and incompetence shown in the search for MH370 is the main reason for failing to locate the plane.
Recent Sabah Incidents
November 2013: Taiwanese tourist Hsu Li Min, 57, was shot dead at the Sipadan Pom Pom Resort on Pom Pom Island by armed gunmen who abducted his wife Chang An Wei, 58. She was later released in the southern Philippines after an undisclosed sum in ransom money was paid.
April 2014: Chinese student Gao Huayun, 29, and Filipina resort worker Marcy Dayawan, an illegal immigrant, were kidnapped at the Singgamata Reef Resort in the east coast. They were released recently.
May 2014: Fish farm manager, Yang Zai Lin, 34, a Chinese national from Guangzhou, was kidnapped near Pulau Baik, near Lahad Datu. He is still being held.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/06/05/big-drop-in-china-tourists-to-sabah/
Fall-out from the Terrorist Attack of Pom Pom Island, Sabah
SABAH: NO END TO SECURITY PROBLEMS!
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Free Malaysia Today
Big drop in China tourists to Sabah
Tourists from China have stopped going to Sabah after the kidnapping cases involving Chinese nationals. The government cannot just say that they tried their best to stop kidnapping incidents. Foreign Missions continue to maintain their advisories on the eastern seaboard of Sabah.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah experienced a 90% drop in the number of tourists from China so far this year after several kidnapping cases involving Chinese nationals recently.
The Sabah Tourism Board (STB) said there was a huge drop of 86.7% tourist traffic from China and Hong Kong last year.
Popular Express Travel managing director Dewi Chen said the drop in the number of tourists was because the kidnappings happened one after another.
“If it was a rare occurrence, the negative effect would have been less,” she said.
Chen said usually she would be booking hotels by now because July to August was the peak period.
“So far we have not received any hotel bookings,” she said.
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The tourists from China account for half the business of Matthewpaul Tours and Travel Sdn Bhd.
Its managing director, Paul Chin, said the inflow of tourists from China had dropped by 80%.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/06/05/big-drop-in-china-tourists-to-sabah/
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China Southern Airlines, which had three flights connecting Kuala Lumpur and China daily, will reduce the frequency to one flight per day starting next month, joining Xiamen Airlines, which had also scrapped plans to increase flights connecting both countries.
Friday April 18, 2014 MYT 7:11:35 AM
Ng: 30% of Chinese tourists cancel bookings to Malaysia
PUTRAJAYA: Close to 30% of Chinese tourists have cancelled their bookings to visit Malaysia this year since the disappearance of Flight MH370, cutting down potential revenue for the local tourism industry.
This is according to data collected by the Malaysia Inbound Tourism Association which manages a majority of the Chinese tourist arrivals in the country through its network of some 70 companies.
Chinese tourists spent an average of RM2,800 each in Malaysia, and at least 10,000 of them had cancelled their trip, said Tourism Malaysia chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.
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Apart from the MH370 incident on March 8, the abduction of a Chinese tourist by armed men at the Singamata Reef Resort off Semporna in Sabah on April 2 also contributed to a drop in tourist arrivals from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Dr Ng said the biggest impact of potential revenue loss from Chinese tourists involved those originating from major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
MH370: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
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