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Get passports stamped, Malaysian commuters told
Report from The STAR dated Tuesday 26 September 2006 :-
Get passports stamped, Malaysian commuters told
KOTA BARU : Malaysians crossing the border to southern Thailand should follow immigration rules and get their passports or border passes stamped rather than just wave them at checkpoints.
Waving documents or even just nodding heads at immigration officers is commonly done by the inhabitants of both sides of the Malaysian-Thai border in Kelantan as they cross the border daily for work and trade.
The army’s Eighth Brigade commander Brig-Jen Shaharuddin Abu Bakar said this practice should be stopped.
“If they are caught in southern Thailand without proper travel documents, they will have to face the consequences.
“They must go through the proper process in view of the unrest in the region and the coup in Bangkok,” he said.
Brig-Jen Shaharuddin said the brigade continued to be on high alert in view of the political uncertainty in Thailand and continued unrest in the southern part of the country that bordered Malaysia.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork
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