These politicians were happy to ignore the pain and suffering of the refugees - some officials have, for gain, joined in their obvious exploitation – who do the work citizens reject as too dirty, too difficult, definitely too underpaid.

The same citizens join in the condemnation now because suddenly the refugees are all crooks and drug traffickers and troublemakers. The racial prejudice is palpable and the danger is that they live in crowded conditions and will 'spike' the Covid-19 curve.

When this happens, as surely it will as it has in Singapore, Malaysians join in openly to "shoo(t) them on sight". This quote is for those of you old enough to recall our Malaysian policy with the Vietnamese boat people, a quote supposedly credited to Mahathir himself.

The fact that this time around, the refugees are fellow Muslims makes very little or no difference. Is it a case of race before religion?

These are all true but perhaps one thing is missing - the difference between asylum seekers and refugees. Not all asylum seekers are refugees. To put this into perspective, one might ask the question of whether all Rohingyas approaching, Malaysia on rickety boats are in fact refugees? If they come somewhere where they would face torture, cruelty, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and other irreparable harm, then yes they may well qualify as refugees. It would seem that most of these boats come from Bangladesh. Is Bangladesh threatening torture etc to the asylum seekers arriving in boats? If yes, then they could be refugees. But if they are housed in refugee camps by the Bangladesh government and are looking for better economic future elsewhere, then they are not refugees. It is not wrong to seek a better life in other countries, but this must be done through proper channels and not by paying human traffickers and entering a country illegally.

UraniumKing68, He's clearly stated.. Refugees registered with unhcr, undocumented migrants r a different ball game,they could include prolly economic migrants n persecuted refugees.

Show me the money BA BA BA BA!

Since interstate travel has been banned and the borders are secure, perhaps we may need different SOP for the affected states according to the severity of infection.

Surely there must be social and economic advantage to live in a green zone?
We ought to take advantage of that and allow the country to benefit from it.

Otherwise, the whole country would simply sink to the worst common denominator.

GUYS! The bare fact before us is Myanmar citizen detain at MALAYSIAN DETENTION CAMP for excessive long period are the main caused of them getting infected...........

The new minister announcement that all immigrants (legal or illegal) to come forward for the test as no actions will be taken against them...........
BUT
went against their political announcement
than
went on an INHUMANE high handed force rounding up of all foreigners........

PN must be fully responsible for the health conditions of all rounded up foreigners that are housed in a very inhumane situation.........

These people are not animals unlike the animals that rounded them up...........

PN - Malaysia Boleh
and
BEST ACTION of the month is
to allow visitation on the 1st day of Hari Raya with 20 person but with SOP ???

What a joke.....

Well done PN . You are the best of the best among the BEST'

Are these people illiterate or uneducated, OR BOTH?

Commonsense tells us when capacity on a carrier is halved, every variable expenditure needs to be doubled to cater for the same passenger volume.

Which means you'll need to halve the fuel price and add another carrier plus additional crew & maintenance to run the same service at the same cost.

Unless your government is giving the ferry company a free fleet of ferries and also pay for the additional ferry workers, just the halving of fuel price will not be sufficient to offset those losses caused by your new covid19 social distancing rules.

scrown---- Ageson sand business NTA Already $0.51+ cash per share $0.03

IF we + CCCC NTA should be?

CONFIRM Every investor here will be surprise!

wet markets should be installed with cameras where monitoring to be done remotely at enforcing officers desks using speakers to warn traders and people flouting the SOP this will keep people on toes just a suggestion

Thanks for bringing down Ageson price, looking to buy in more. Excited!

Haha good one YoungTycoonWILL!