Msia urges Asean to lift travel restrictions to save tourism from Sars

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The government today pressed the Association for Southeast Asian Nations to lift travel restrictions in a bid to promote inter-Asean travel and put the struggling Sars hit tourism industry back o­n track.

"Sars has made us suffer so much. Even if we can overcome the outbreak in the next o­ne or two months, it will take a few more months for confidence to travel to return," Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir.

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