MAS acts to extend check-in deadline
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Kota Kinabalu: Malaysia Airlines extended its passenger check-in time Tuesday evening, in the light of the heavy traffic congestion throughout the city caused by panic buying among motorists to get their tanks filled. A check by Daily Express on the situation at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport revealed that the national airline had adapted the measure to try and give extra time for its customers who may be delayed by the traffic situation to reach the counters. Normally, passengers would have to check-in 45 minutes before flight time, but the airline decided to allow passengers to check-in as late as 20 minutes before the scheduled flight time. At least two passengers were reported ...

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With love from Malaysia
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2008
Q&A: Amirul Ariffin MD Nasir, Director, Tourism MalaysiaGargi Gupta - New Delhi June 14, 2008Wed in Malaysia, honeymoon in Malaysia, play golf there or simply drive through - Tourism Malaysia is making a serious play for Indian tourists, its director tells Gargi Gupta. A food fest and a performance by the Swatari troupe showcasing little-known tribal dances of the Sabah and Sarawak regions -Tourism Malaysia seems to have its focus squarely on India. Why? India is the sixth most prominent tourism generating source market for Malaysia. In 2007, 422,452 Indian tourists visited Malaysia - an increase of 51.4 per cent from last years' arrival figures - while tourism receipts from India stood ...

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AirAsia slashes fares to just RM1
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia has returned with irresistible promotions with some 250,000 seats up for grabs with fares from as low as RM1 to domestic and regional destinations in line with the Mega Sale Carnival 2008.Fares as low as RM1 are for one-way from Kuala Lumpur hub to popular destinations in Peninsular Malaysia including the new stop, Kuantan, and international destinations such as Singapore, Banda Aceh, Medan, Padang and Palembang.One-way tickets to certain destinations in Sabah and Sarawak and Southeast Asia are priced at RM20.Fares to Chiang Mai, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Clark (Manila), Macau, Shenzhen and the new destinations of Haikou (Hainan) are at RM70 and Hong Kong at ...

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Sepilok To Host Malaysian Rainforest Flora and Fauna Festival
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2008
SANDAKAN, June 1 (Bernama) - Sabah, famous for its vast forest treasures and its landscape, is to host the inaugural Malaysian Rainforest Flora and Fauna Festival in August next year. The Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah, who is also the Malaysian Lansdscape Advisory Panel chairman, said the Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) in Sepilok here has been picked as the location of the biennial festival. She said the month-long festival would promote Malaysia and its tropical rainforest on the international tourism map. "Sabah has been picked to host the event based on its accreditation as one of 12 world bio-diversity mega zones which are rich in unique landscape and their ...

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