{"id":6820,"date":"2010-09-13T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2010-09-13T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T01:50:49","slug":"15000-malaysians-gave-up-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/09\/13\/15000-malaysians-gave-up-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"15000 Malaysians gave up citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statistics below <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/13\/nation\/7025232&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>says<\/strong><\/a> for last 5 years,\u00a0 meaning 2005-2009 I think. Out of the more than 15k Malaysians, more than 80% were Chinese.\u00a0 I guess the attraction is for places where the grass is presumed to be greener.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Oriental Daily <\/em>reported that more than 15,000 Malaysians have given up their citizenship in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the number, 12,410 were Chinese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 984 Malays, 762 Indians and 1,302 of others also ceased to be Malaysians in the same period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quoting National Registration Department director-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim, the daily reported that most of them migrated to Singapore, Brunei, England, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, India, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2007, a total of 4,565 Malaysians migrated and 4,649 last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2008, only 1,994 Malaysians left the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another year which recorded low numbers of people migrating was in 2005 (1,525).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alwi also said a total of 25,996 people of various nationalities have red identity cards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statistics below says for last 5 years,\u00a0 meaning 2005-2009 I think. Out of the more than 15k Malaysians, more than 80% were Chinese.\u00a0 I guess the attraction is for places where the grass is presumed to be greener. Oriental Daily reported that more than 15,000 Malaysians have given up their citizenship in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}