The incident put Malaysia in China spotlight again since the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and several other disasters that have taken many lives of Chinese tourists in Malaysia with Mainland Chinese media of China Daily , China Internet Information Center , Global Times , Xinhua News Agency and the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post put a close watch to the tragedy with frequent news update . But despite all of the tragedies , the number of Chinese tourists to Malaysia are unaffected and keep increasing year by year with recent record put the number of Chinese tourists visiting Malaysia at 2.2 million , up from 1.2 million for a similar period in 2015
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
2017 Mengalum Island boat accident