Demand for passports soars


SEPANG: Nearly 2.6 million Malaysians were issued with international passports last year, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

The Home Minister said this was a 25% increase in applications compared with before the Covid-19 pandemic first struck three years ago.

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