Malaysia my Second Home is all about retiring and making sure you can enjoy your retirement in the best possible way ever. For us Europeans Malaysia is a nice choice because lots of people speak English, so you can get your bearings without too much hassle.

Once you are here it’s easy to go and enroll yourself in a class to learn the Malaysian language or any or the other languages spoken here.

But I am writing this post to mention what I read in the Malaysian newspaper today: Naza Group founder and chairperson SM Nasimuddin SM Amin died this morning at 1.15am (local time) while undergoing cancer treatment in the United States. He was 53.

What scares me is his age: 53 only with lung-cancer.

Unfortunately there is nothing that can prevent you from getting lung cancer in the first place. And 53 is not even a retirement age in Malaysia. In other words: life is very unpredictable, so even if you work for a better future, make sure you enjoy your life of today as well.

On a site-note: yet another prominent Malaysian is seeking health care overseas, this time at a private hospital in Long Beach…

We hereby pass our condolences to his wife, Zaleha Ismail and his children.

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Former Malaysia Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had another heart surgery on
Saturday night because of a wound infection.

The surgical wound debridement (as far as I understand that word, it means cleaning up death tissue) was carried out on Dr Mahathir at 11.30pm on Saturday night and was completed at 2.30am Sunday.

Meanwhile my handphone has been spammed by messages saying that Dr M has died and other messages that all the rumors spread by messages on handphones are not true and that official statements will be made when necessary.

Now the latter is the major problem in Malaysia: Malaysian news will be given to you "when necessary", but you don’t have any idea about "necessary for who?".

There are also rumors (of course we only believe rumors because the Malaysian newspaper will only report what is necessary for we don’t know who…): the rumors say that the rivalry between Mahathir and his successor Abdullah causes his heart to tick quite irregular…

Therefore I advice Mahathir to retire in peace, and apply for Malaysia My Second Home. I works fine for my health!

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The most important thing to know under the MM2H programme is that you are not allowed to have a paid work in Malaysia. Yet you are allowed to invest in Malaysia or to own businesses in Malaysia! Read below all the advantages of the Malaysia my second home programme.

MALAYSIA, My Second Home (MM2H) programme

(From Starbiz 2006)

MALAYSIA, My Second Home (MM2H) programme is promoted by the Government to allow people from all over the world who fulfil the stipulated criteria to stay in the country for as long as possible on a social visit pass with a multiple entry visa.

The social visit pass is initially for a period of 10 years (depending on the validity of the applicants’ passport) and is renewable.

Among the benefits under the programme are:

• Those who qualify for the programme are offered a 10-year social visit pass and multiple-entry visa.
• After 10 years, renewal is guaranteed if there is no violation of laws and rules of Malaysia.
• During these 10 years, the person is free to stay in Malaysia and travel as often as he likes. .
• He can import his car or purchase a new completely knocked down car tax-free.
• School-going children will be giving student pass to further their studies at international colleges and universities.
• Can bring in a maid from the country of origin to Malaysia after the approval.
• Can be an investor and own businesses in Malaysia.
• For housing loan, can obtain up to 80% as compared to the normal 60% for foreign applicants (subject to credibility).
• No need to obtain Foreign Investment Committee (FIC) approval for purchasing properties in Malaysia.
• For participants from countries that have double taxation agreement with Malaysia, their pension fund that are remitted to Malaysia will
  be exempted from tax if the person has stayed more than 184 days in the country.

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