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Malaysia My Second Home & FIC Guidelines
News Articles - Pages
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Links:
Malaysia My Second Home Programme's Official Website -
www.mm2h.gov.my
FIC Guidelines - Economic Planning Unit, Jabatan Perdana
Menteri -
http://www.epu.gov.my |
Foreign retiree happy with
work of local contractor
21/08/2005 The Star
I REFER to the letter, “Second Homer disillusioned by lousy work” (Sunday
Star, Aug 14), from DM of Petaling Jaya.
My wife and I decided to make Malaysia our second home two years ago. We
looked around and finally bought a house in Subang Jaya.
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Couple build energy-saving
home 16/11/2005 The Star STORY AND PHOTOS BY LEE YUK PENG
READY FOR USE: Boswell outside Cooltek, his newly completed, environment
friendly home.
MALAYSIA My Second Home participants Harry Boswell and Stephanie Bacon have
built a house that reflects their concern for the environment and love for
nature.
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Story and picuture
by LEE YUK PENG MALACCA: The house built by a British
couple residing here under the “Malaysia My Second Home” programme has
attracted queries from all over Malaysia.
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Japanese finds Penang perfect
for retirement
31/01/2006 The Star
PENANG is one of the best destinations for foreigners planning to spend
their retirement years, says Penang Tourism Action Council (PTAC) adviser
for the Long-Stay programme, Hoshino Kyo.
“I believe Penang is one of the best places for long-stay,” said the
66-year-old Japanese who has been living in Penang with his wife since 1997.
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Penang now home to Aussie
couple 31/01/2006 The Star By PRISCILLA DIELENBERG
THROUGHOUT the day, Pat and Alan Jones found strangers knocking at the door
of their home in Muntri Street in the heart of George Town, Penang, where
they have been living for seven months.
These strangers were English-speaking foreigners keen to learn more from the
couple about Penang, the Malaysia My Second Home programme, and even buying
and renovating an old building.
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Davison: No place like
Malaysia 12/02/2006 The Star By Sharyn Foo
PETALING JAYA: Having spent more
than 25 years travelling around the world, he’s probably been to more places
than many others have.
And Briton Andy Davison, 60, not only chose to settle in Malaysia under the
Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme but also set up website
www.mm2h.com to encourage more foreigners to move here.
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Tourism Ministry to handle
'Malaysia, My Second Home' programme
28/02/2006 The Star
PUTRAJAYA: The Tourism Ministry will take charge of the "Malaysia, My Second
Home" programme from April. It is currently under the Home Ministry.
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More retirees choose Penang
02/03/2006 The Star
PENANG: There are about 500 Japanese senior citizens staying in Penang under
the Malaysia My Second Home programme.
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Expats with special skills may
find work under scheme
08/03/2006 The Star
BIRMINGHAM: Expatriates with special expertise will be considered for
short-term employment under the Malaysia My Second Home Programme.
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Malaysia, My Second Home
campaign needs bigger boost 14/03/2006 The Star Comment: By V.K.CHIN
The ‘Malaysia, My Second Home’ campaign was launched some five years ago,
but the response has been disappointing. The programme is aimed at getting
more eligible foreigners to regard Malaysia as their second home.
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Key issues to aid campaign
17/03/2006 The Star
I READ with interest V.K. Chin’s Comment, “Malaysia, My Second Home campaign
needs bigger boost” (The Star, March 14).
I share many of his views and would like to add some of my own thoughts. In
my view this programme has the highest potential of any of the recent
tourism related initiatives.
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Community village plan
31/03/2006 The Star By IZATUN SHARI
KUALA LUMPUR: Foreigners signing up for the Malaysia, My Second Home
programme may soon be able to feel right at home under a “community village”
scheme, aimed at offering facilities tailored to their needs.
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BY IAN YEE AND THO
XIN YI
While it is almost every Malaysian football player's
dream to play in the English Premier League, former West Ham United
midfielder Peter Butler says staying in Malaysia while coaching in
Singapore is as good as it gets.
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Easier now for foreigners to
set up home, says Lim
05/04/2006 The Star
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has made it easy for foreigners to set up home in the
country under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme.
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Penang popular with the Japanese
29/04/2006 The Star
THE Japanese are more interested in making Penang their second home compared
to many other places in Malaysia, said Hideaki Hoshi, the newly appointed
Consul-General of Japan.
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Potential to attract the rich
05/06/2006 The Star
MALAYSIA has the potential to attract high net worth foreigners to its
shores to set up second homes if more concerted efforts are undertaken to
promote the country as their favourite place of abode.
The Malaysia, My Second Home Programme that was launched in 2002 has so far
attracted 8,574 foreign citizens.
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One-stop centre to help
applicants
20/05/2006 The Star
KUALA LUMPUR: A one-stop centre has been set up to expedite applications for
the Malaysia My Second Home programme.
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, who launched the
centre located at Menara Dato’ Onn in Putra World Trade Centre, here,
yesterday, said the ministry wanted to make it simpler for foreigners to
take up the programme.
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By LEE YUK PENG
MALACCA: Energy-saving houses are the way to go to minimise utility
costs and a couple living here under the Malaysia My Second Home Programme
are showing just how to do it. Harry Boswell, 71, and Stephanie Bacon, 64, from Cambridgeshire, England,
have a 260 square metre, single-storey house with four air-conditioners
running 24 hours a day at 24°C and it costs them only RM2 a day to run the
units.
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Plan allows for 10-year stay
in Malaysia 05/06/2006 The Star
MALAYSIA, My Second Home (MM2H) programme is promoted by the Government to
allow people from all over the world who fulfil the stipulated criteria to
stay in the country for as long as possible on a social visit pass with a
multiple entry visa.
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Potential to attract the rich
05/06/2006 The Star
MALAYSIA has the potential to attract high net worth foreigners to its
shores to set up second homes if more concerted efforts are undertaken to
promote the country as their favourite place of abode.
The Malaysia, My Second Home Programme that was launched in 2002 has so far
attracted 8,574 foreign citizens.
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Scheme spurs interest among
foreign buyers 05/06/2006 The Star By ANGIE NG
THE spin-offs from a highly successful Malaysia, My Second Home (MM2H)
programme to the property sector would be tremendous if it spurred greater
demand for residences from the participating foreigners.
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I READ with great interest in The Star
(June 5) about how the Malaysian economy and especially the property
sector will benefit from 1,000's of “Second Homers” that are moving to
Malaysia as a safe retirement haven.
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From
outside, it looks like a fortified bunker but, CHIN MUI YOON discovers,
the facade conceals a tranquil haven.Only a fortress-like boundary wall and rooftops can be seen from the
outside of Baan Tara. A wide car porch fronts the entrance.
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New scheme for expatriates?
14/06/2006 The Star
I UNDERSTAND that the Malaysia My Second Home programme has been modified
from April 6 to attract more people from different nations to apply to live
in our country.
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Feeling at home
17/06/2006 The Star
If you’re Japanese, new to Malaysia and can only speak your native tongue,
you’ll be glad to join the Coconut Lounge.
Based in Penang, the club introduces Malaysia to its members through social
outings and activities.
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Relaunched
17/06/2006 The Star
Previously known as the Silver Hair programme (1996-2002), the Malaysia My
Second Home (MM2H) programme was set up to promote Malaysia as an attractive
second or permanent home for foreigners. Till now, the programme has
attracted more than 8,000 participants.
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MM2H guidelines
17/06/2006 The Star
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By LEONG SIOK
HUI
Samantha Jones, 38, remembers vividly that moment in 2002. “We were
sitting on the lanai in Pelangi Resort and all of a sudden I just
felt it...wow, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so relaxed in my
whole life,” recalls Jones.
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By LEONG SIOK HUI
Post-retirement usually means living a tranquil life in a place you call
‘home’. But why do some people uproot themselves, move to a strange land
and start all over again? StarWeekend chats with a few Malaysia
My Second Home participants.
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By LEE YUK PENG
MALACCA: Last year, a British couple who had spent millions on a
bungalow in Klebang was assured by the state that a plot of land between
their property and the sea would be left vacant.
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Second Homer disillusioned by
lousy work
14/08/2006 The Star
I NOTE that the Government has increased the length of stay for the
“Malaysia My Second Home” scheme from five to 10 years in an effort to
encourage more applicants.
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Foreign couple ‘fall in love’
with island 26/09/2006 The Star
A Briton and his Japanese wife who have been living in Penang the past two
months have decided to retire on the island.
Blain Lucas, 53 and Misako Lucas, 38, came to The Star Property & Home Fair
2005 early Friday to look for a condominium or landed property on the
island.
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THE Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme has been in the news
again. This time it was for the wrong reason. Religious enforcement
officers were reported to have raided the apartment of a non-Muslim foreign
couple in Langkawi. The horrified couple said they were reconsidering plans
to take part in the MM2H.
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PETALING JAYA: Housing developers generally welcome the
Government’s move yesterday to relax the rules for foreigners to purchase
high-end residential properties in the country.
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