Malaysia struggles to shake COVID stigma as ASEAN restarts tourism

Government urged to do more to persuade neighbors to welcome vaccinated citizens

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A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying domestic tourists: The country's neighbors are slow to welcome its travelers despite a high vaccination rate. © Reuters

P PREM KUMAR, Nikkei staff writer

KUALA LUMPUR -- Song Ewe Jurn has not seen his frail grandmother in Singapore for over two years. Before COVID-19 shut the border in March 2020, the architect was one of thousands of Malaysians who frequently traveled to the island city-state on a tourist visa.

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