ntended to specify countries with a high risk of “kidnapping and hostage taking by criminal and terrorist actors around the world.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested saying that the US should remove Malaysia from the list, arguing that the US should be “more objective in its assessment.” The ministry cited that tourist arrivals in Sabah have increased by 5.5% or 3.87 million tourists last 2018. They added that kidnapping incidents have also “dropped significantly to almost nil.”
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