{"id":881988,"date":"2025-12-31T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/singapore-tour-buses-not-allowed-to-operate-express-services-in-malaysia-anthony-loke-malaysia-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:25:53","slug":"singapore-tour-buses-not-allowed-to-operate-express-services-in-malaysia-anthony-loke-malaysia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/singapore-tour-buses-not-allowed-to-operate-express-services-in-malaysia-anthony-loke-malaysia-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore tour buses not allowed to operate express services in Malaysia: Anthony Loke, Malaysia News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Malaysia will not permit Singapore tour buses to operate express bus services in the country, its transport minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday (Dec 2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He told Malaysia&#8217;s Parliament that under a reciprocal arrangement, Singapore tour buses can bring tourists into Malaysia, just as Malaysia&#8217;s tour buses are allowed into Singapore, reported The Star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loke reportedly stated that the Republic had requested for its express buses to run in Malaysia, in return for Malaysian buses operating in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, Singapore does not have a legal category for express buses. Their system only recognises tour buses and scheduled buses,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adding that his ministry&#8217;s position &#8220;remains firm&#8221;, Loke said that &#8220;action will be taken&#8221; against illegal operators.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian MP Ahmad Marzuk Shaary raised his concern in a supplementary question that some Singaporean tour buses have operated in Malaysia for years without inspections or local safety standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, Loke said that such bus operators &#8220;have taken advantage of the system&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not consider permits for Singaporean express buses as it would disadvantage local operators,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:725920]]<\/p>\n<p><span \n                data-original-string='ZD0Td\/dM1HBfMeOs2B4tKw==7f4mjHhQ9oy9IgUd1BcnR1Axc39e+SCfYX4eifry7odoeA='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>li<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*****<\/span>ne.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/malaysia\/singapore-tour-buses-express-services-malaysia-anthony-loke\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia will not permit Singapore tour buses to operate express bus services in the country, its transport minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday (Dec 2).\u00a0 He told Malaysia&#8217;s Parliament that under a reciprocal arrangement, Singapore tour buses can bring tourists into Malaysia, just as Malaysia&#8217;s tour buses are allowed into Singapore, reported The Star.\u00a0 Loke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4263,24728],"tags":[15405,5804],"class_list":{"0":"post-881988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-malaysia","8":"category-singapore","9":"tag-malaysia","10":"tag-singapore"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}