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Most Chinese Malaysians can read and write in Chinese. That's because Malaysia is probably the only country in the world outside China that has publicly-funded schools that have Mandarin as the main language of instruction. Even Singapore doesn't have that kind of schools - Lee Kuan Yew ended Chinese-language schools decades ago, a decision which he later regretted. Mandarin is only taught in Singapore as a single subject. Not too long ago, some Muslim groups asked the Malaysian courts to rule if Chinese schools were legal or not because they felt threatened by the rising popularity of Chinese schools among the Muslims. Fortunately, the courts ruled against them. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3252600/malaysias-federal-court-upholds-constitutional-right-vernacular-schools-teach-chinese-tamil

Yes, it is certainly beneficial to be fluent in Chinese in this region. Malaysia, the top source of tourists to Thailand, has many Mandarin speakers. In fact, Malaysia has the most Mandarin speakers outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. But of course, most Malaysians can speak English. Thai, Indonesian and Filipino Chinese however, mostly couldn't speak any Chinese dialect. In this region, only Chinese Malaysians and Chinese Singaporeans have retained their Chinese names and language.

Day trippers from Malaysia mostly visit Thai small border towns such as Danok, Betong and Sungai Kolok. The number of visitors to these small towns are not high. And many of them are petrol, diesel, cooking oil and sugar smugglers, not tourists. I wouldn't be surprised if most of these smugglers don't even go through immigration gates properly. https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2025/09/1274341/smugglers-modify-cars-carry-more-subsidised-petrol-thailand Visitors to Hat Yai would often spend a few days there because they are mostly from Malaysian cities further south such as Penang, Kulim, Taiping, Ipoh, Kampar, Sitiawan or even Kuala Lumpur. After the long drive north, it doesn't make sense for us to only spend a few hours in Hat Yai. Also, many of us Malaysians have been to Thailand many, many times before, so it wouldn't be surprising if we would only spend 3 to 5 days per trip there, around 1 to 3 times per year. Bangkok is the top destination, followed by Phuket, Hat Yai and Chiang Mai.

LOL. Don't you Westerners have the tradition of buying gifts from the places that you visit to be given to relatives, friends and colleagues? Many of us go to Big C in Bangkok on the final day before our flight home to buy uniquely Thai foodstuffs, not things that we could get easily back home. Some of us even use the courier service at the Big C to ship boxes of foodstuffs back to Malaysia.

There you go. Can you make up your mind? Are we still mostly day trippers?

Wrong. There are 22 direct flights from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok everyday. If you have taken any of these flights before, you would think that the passengers were mostly from China. But they are not. Most of the passengers are Chinese Malaysians. Go to the Big C Supercenter at Ratchadamri Road and ask the customers there where they are from. Chances are they are either Chinese Malaysians or Chinese Singaporeans. As a Chinese Malaysian myself, I see plenty of fellow Chinese Malaysian tourists in Bangkok.

CHD620 is actually a licensed-manufactured version of the German MTU396 engine. China have produced the CHD620 engines for Germany. https://www.defensemirror.com/news/35501/Chinese_Submarine_Engine_is_a_Licensed_produced_German_Powerplant__Thai_Navy_Chief The Hangor-class submarine, jointly produced by China and Pakistan, uses the CHD620 engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangor-class_submarine

This new rule probably may not be applicable to Malaysians like me. Thailand is a signatory to an agreement that recognizes driving licenses issued by other ASEAN countries.

There are no dual-pricing policy for individual trip fares. The dual-pricing are for concessionary passes, which used to be only for Malaysian citizens, but now extended to tourists to boost tourism.

Bus drivers were stealing bus fares by recycling tickets. Moreover, KL could only implement a single concessionary pass system for all the LRT, MRT, Monorail, BRT and bus lines if a single cashless system is employed. RM10 (for foreigners, RM6 for locals) for an unlimited day pass for all the metro lines including buses is a very good deal. You just need to buy a reloadable card (called Touch N Go) at any metro station or at the Touch N Go service center in KL Sentral. You can also use the Touch N Go card to pay for parking and tolls.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/05/19/china-proves-key-market-for-penang-as-tourist-visits-surge-in-2024-says-govt-rep

If low grade materials were used, the project supervisor, in this case, a consortium of 3 firms, has to bear responsibility because they were supposed to certify material quality testing. The project supervisor is not paid tens of millions of baht for doing nothing.

China tourists and students have a safer option with no language barriers: Tourist arrivals from China to Malaysia up 130.9 per cent last year The number of students from China applying to study in Malaysian universities grew by 25% last year

The date of the attack. The date they were locked up. You have biasedly assumed that they were innocent. What if they were not innocent? If you support terrorists and terrorism or simply die-hard anti China, then no need to argue any further.

I only stated facts. Of course both you and me didn't know for sure if they were involved or not. That's someone's job to find out. But by you deciding that they were surely innocent, that's you trying to BS to yourself too.