Reopening of Singapore-Malaysia land border expected to ease labor tension in city-state

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Reopening of Singapore-Malaysia land border expected to ease labor tension in city-state

STORY: Reopening of Singapore-Malaysia land border expected to ease labor tension in city-state DATELINE: April 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: Singapore CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view in Singapore STORYLINE: Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob made a joint statement on March 24 that the two neighboring countries had decided to completely open their land borders to fully-vaccinated visitors from both sides starting from April 1 and no COVID-19 test or quarantine is required. As one of the busiest land borders in the world, the land border between Singapore and Malaysia saw a daily flow of more than 400,000 travelers on average before the pandemic took place. The new border measures have triggered people's sentiment in heading home with about 33,700 travelers cleared the land checkpoints in the first 17 hours of the implementation of the new measures, most of whom went to the Malaysian side, local newspaper the

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