Malaysia only recorded about four million tourist arrivals in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. - Filepic Tourist arrivals to Malaysia fell by 83.4% in 2020 with the country only welcoming about four million tourists.
The country recorded a total of 4,332,722 international tourist arrivals last year, a marked decrease from the 26,100,784 tourist arrivals recorded in 2019. The massive drop in international tourist arrivals is attributed to the closure of Malaysian borders since March 18 last year due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Tourism Malaysia in a statement.
For the same period, Malaysia’s tourist receipts also plunged by 85.3% from RM86.14bil in 2019 to RM12.69bil last year.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 International tourist arrivals to the country dropped 83.4 per cent to 4,332,722 last year from 26,100,784 in 2019 due to the closure of Malaysia’s borders since March 18, 2020 to curb the spread of Covid-19. Tourism Malaysia said tourist receipts last year also plunged.
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The former director-general of the Chamber for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Vince Farrugia, has died aged 77.
Farrugia was a long-serving director of the business lobby, formerly known as the GRTU.
He also held several other positions including in the then National Tourism Organisation of Malta, the Malta Development Corporation and in banks. In 2008 he was given the National Order of Merit.
The Chamber of SMEs said Farrugia had turned the organisation into one of national importance and said he would always be remembered for defending the interests of small business owners.
It offered its condolences to his wife, children and family.
The Outsiders (Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri, 1958)
Japanâs sparsely inhabited northern island of Hokkaido is a land of rugged, majestic landscapes with an icy winter climate. Its frontier status has made it a natural setting for such man-against-the-elements action movies as the Kurosawa Akira-scripted
Jakoman and Tetsu (1949), in which a heroic member of a fishing outpost rallies his co-workers against the gang of a one-eyed outlaw.
Fukasaku Kinji remade the film in 1964 with Takakura Ken, the âClint Eastwood of Japanâ, replacing Mifune Toshiro as the titular Tetsu. Takakura then starred in the ten-film
Abashiri Prison series (1965-1967) as one of a group of yakuza jailbirds who continue their gang rivalries within prison walls while periodically making their escapes across the islandâs snowy hinterland.