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Malaysia PM to kick off a four-day visit

At the invitation of the Chinese side, Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim will pay a working visit to China starting on Monday. The four-day visit comes less than two months after Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar visited the country. China and Malaysia have witnessed frequent highlevel exchanges in recent years. Anwar paid his first visit as Malaysian prime minister to China in late March last year. He also attended the 20th China-ASEAN Expo, which was held in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in September last year.

Beijing to give more visa-free treatments

Beijing decided to give visa-free treatment to another nine countries to further facilitate cross-border travel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday. China will extend the visa-free policy to ordinary passport holders from Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and the Republic of Korea on a trial basis, Lin said. According to Lin, from Nov 8 to Dec 31, 2025, ordinary passport holders from those nine countries can be exempted from visas to enter China and stay for no more than 15 days for business, tourism, family visits and transit purposes.

China Daily