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A Facebook user who claimed to be Malaysian with Singapore Permanent Resident (PR) shared how he was "stranded" in Singapore since 17 March 2020. After about a month, he decided to return home to Johor Bahru (JB). However upon reaching the JB Custom, Second link (should be Tuas Checkpoint), the Malaysian side denied him entry. The alleged reason given was because he is a Singapore PR.

Ms Daphne Loo, the media officer for Powerlifting Singapore, started a crowdfunding campaign to bring the two home as they missed their flight back to Singapore, and have no money to buy new air tickets. When the brothers arrived in Minsk on June 16, they were told that no visa was required. But when they were leaving the city for home, officials detained them and demanded a US$600 (S$830) fine. When the officials realised that the brothers had no money, they waived the fine and told them to get their own air tickets home. However, they had already missed their flight due to the mix-up, and they had no other means to purchase the tickets. MFA had worked to get the airline, Lufthansa Air, to agree to lower the fare from €949 to €603 (S$1,470 to S$935). From the crowdfunding effort, one anonymous donor contributed $2,000. The brothers are now waiting for a flight back on Friday. The boys did Singapore proud in setting a world record, in fact, they even paid their own way to take part in the competition. And our rich ministers and Ministries see it fit to only settle for a reduced cost price of an air flight, and not pay for their immediate flight home. And the flight they got will only take off on Friday. For the time being, they are stuck at the transit area with little money left. This is how we treat our local heroes, it seems.

We are a family of 3,we had booked a Japan tour package tour from Travel Star Pte. Ltd. at a travel fair, at MBS during September 2016.The trip to Tokyo was from 5th December to 10 th December follow by a trip to Hokkaido from 11th to 16 December.