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Malaysia hopes US reviews policy forcing foreign students to leave US

Jul 09, 2020

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Malaysia hopes the US will review its latest immigration policy, which will force foreign students whose classes are fully online, to leave the US. 

Wisma Putra says the US hosts the third-largest population of Malaysian students studying abroad, at more than 6,000 students. 

Meanwhile, our embassy in Washington has urged Malaysian students to contact their respective universities, so that they can be clear on their immigration status. 

The new policy states that students whose courses are fully online due to the COVID-19 pandemic would lose their permission to be in the US and might get deported.

Boarding school students allowed to balik kampung for Aidiladha 

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Boarding school students are allowed to return to their hometowns to celebrate Hari Raya Aidiladha.

The Education Ministry says it's safe to do so, because improvements have been made to existing SOPs. 

Boarding school students in their first semester of Form Four and Six are set to return to schools next Wednesday.

While Form One to Three boarding school students will start from August 3rd. 

Malaysia reports zero local COVID-19 transmission for second consecutive day

13 more COVID-19 patients were released from hospital today, compared to just six new cases. 

The new infections are imported cases, meaning there've been no local transmissions for two straight days. 

This brings Malaysia's total number of cases to 8,683, but only 60 or so are active infections. 

The death toll remains unchanged at 121.