CHINA'S 55-39-20 AND 36-24-36

Malaysians should start to get really worried when our Immigration Department (JIM) seems to be unable to keep a count of our vistors statistics. This led our PM on to a merry dance when basing on their feedback, issued an order to track down the missing 50,000 Chinese nationals. The Star reported today that the JIM list involves 250 nationalities with approximately 13,132,449 Singaporeans (!*!) missing in Malaysia. Australians -207,775, Japanese -747,668, Chinese -553,920 and the list goes on.
So, why the sudden focus on the purported 50,00o wayward Chinese nationals. Could it be that Singaporeans or Indonesians are a lesser security risk? Maybe just maybe, they were returning a favour to our men in blue by giving them a much needed reason for the harassment of our 4 guest from China ?
Statistically, this month has turned turned out to be a real pain to JIM and PDRM . The former paid too little attention as to how our visitors statistics were handled whilst the latter at the PJ police station paid, far too much attention to it.

Missing ‘tourists

Saturday - 26th Novemeber
LInk : Star - Data could be wrong
by M. KRISHNAMOORTHY AND TEOH TEIK HOONG

PETALING JAYA: Have 50,000 Chinese nationals actually gone missing in the country?
The accuracy of this figure has come under question following admissions by the authorities that statistics on arriving and departing travellers do not tally because of flaws in the system.
Figures posted on the Immigration Department website show that more than 16.7 million tourists had gone missing from 2000 to 2003.
Singaporeans make up the largest number, totalling 13 million, followed by Japanese (747,000) and Bruneians (703,075).
The list involving 250 nationalities is found on the website and there is a big difference between the arrival and departure figures of almost every nationality.
Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said the figures on the website (http://www.imi.gov.my/ENG/Statistik/im_Statistik.asp) did not accurately reflect the total number of people leaving the country because some came in as tourists and stayed on as expatriates or foreign workers......
Immigration director-general Datuk Jamal Kamdi concurred that the figures on arrivals and departures did not reflect the actual numbers that had left the country.

“Some of the reasons are breakdowns of the computers and when there is heavy traffic of Singaporeans exiting at the Causeway; the staff do not have the time to record their departures,” he said. He said there were also times when there was a delay in the transfer of data to the head office in Putrajaya.
“The data is sometimes entered at a later date when the officers are free and for this reason the figures on the website do not reflect the number of those who have overstayed,” he added.
Asked about the report on the 50,000 Chinese nationals who had not left the country, Jamal said the figure would not be accurate because of the constant movement of people....Tourists have also reported that at times during departure at airports, immigration officers have failed to stamp and collect the exit slips.