ADUN SPEAKS | On Nov 2, the Tourism, Arts, and Culture Minister announced that Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) will not be cancelled but is frozen temporarily to avoid disappointing applicants while renewing and devising conditions in the pandemic.

However, this process of revaluation has now gone on for about four months (Aug 4, 2020) with no standing from the ministry. Their inability to make a decision has hit existing business and limited the spurring of the economy during this difficult time.

About one-third of consultants and agents for the MM2H programme will likely close their business in three months. The companies have expressed their concerns about not being able to last for more than three months and this is worrying.

Although the minister has said that the freezing was due to the pandemic, the MM2H program actually...