The Immigration Department has dismissed viral claims that Malaysia's 10-year passport validity exceeds international limits and can cause travellers to be barred from boarding flights.

Channel
New Straits Times
@nstmalaysia
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
6,238subscribers
+145 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001716780412 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @nstmalaysia |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 15 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 13 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/nstmalaysia |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026, 02:15 | 6,238 | +2 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 03:37 | 6,236 | +27 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 09:21 | 6,209 | +23 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 19:58 | 6,186 | +11 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 21:47 | 6,175 | +16 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 05:52 | 6,159 | +5 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 05:17 | 6,154 | +19 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 06:22 | 6,135 | +9 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 21:37 | 6,126 | +19 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 12:15 | 6,107 | +17 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 20:01 | 6,090 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:10 | 6,088 | -5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 11:33 | 6,093 | first reading |
Engagement
83 posts held, back to 7 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 9 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 83 posts for this entry, the most recent from 12 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
68 reactions across 34 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 33.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 23 | 33.8% | |
| 👎 | 18 | 26.5% | |
| ❤ | 14 | 20.6% | |
| 👏 | 13 | 19.1% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 35 of the 83 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 68 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 83 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Police nab 12 over robbery of Taiwanese YouTuber
Johor will form a multi‑agency task force to investigate claims of Singapore construction waste dumped locally. State housing chief Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor said reports include Sungai Karang, with police, SWCorp and authorities probing if dumping continues.
Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, married long‑time partner Georgina Rodriguez in a private ceremony at Cascais, Portugal, attended by their five children. The football star shared wedding band photos on Instagram, while representatives confirmed the intimate event near Lisbon.
❤1
Aug 21 not a public holiday in Melaka
Malaysians in Colombia safe after deadly earthquake
7 Tabung Haji investments suffered total losses, Dewan Rakyat told
Lawmakers call for new RCI into Tabung Haji management from 2021 to 2025
👍1👏1
Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said syndicates were constantly searching for alternative routes and weaknesses in enforcement.
👎1
Boy did not flee after stabbing; court to decide Thursday if defence is called
English Premier League's 'Circus Games': Are they really beneficial to Asian football?
👎1
Opposition MPs failed 10 million TH depositors by walking out, says Syed Saddiq
👍4
Showing the 12 most recent of 83 posts we hold for @nstmalaysia. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@thestar_official · 32,588
Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 5 September 2026
@malaysiakini · 29,167
Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 8 September 2026
@MOHMalaysia · 22,573
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 20 September 2026
@astroawani · 70,932
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 20 August 2026
@anwaribrahim_official · 30,128
Telegram ranks this channel #20 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 7 September 2026
@infoutusantv · 51,576
Telegram ranks this channel #20 of 56 here — alongside 55 others — read 24 August 2026
@cprckkm · 348,392
Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 13 August 2026
@ohmymediacc · 24,828
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 15 September 2026
@chinapressonline · 23,199
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 53 here — alongside 52 others — read 19 September 2026
@SinarHarianOfficial · 57,490
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 23 August 2026
@mstaronlineofficial · 24,478
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 16 September 2026
@orientaldailynewsmalaysia · 26,616
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 65 here — alongside 64 others — read 12 September 2026
@mydoa_hq · 27,177
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 11 September 2026
@sinchewtelegram · 40,211
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 30 August 2026
@DBPMalaysia · 23,984
Telegram ranks this channel #42 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 17 September 2026
@sihatmilikbersama · 41,153
Telegram ranks this channel #42 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 29 August 2026
@mknrasmi · 619,110
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 13 August 2026
@BizTimes · 46,362
Telegram ranks this channel #52 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 27 August 2026
@PejuangSTPM · 24,638
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 58 here — alongside 57 others — read 15 September 2026
@TradewithMaybank · 25,423
Telegram ranks this channel #69 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 14 September 2026
@BursaKLSEsignals · 34,153
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 5 September 2026
@PunchNewspaper · 27,542
Telegram ranks this channel #78 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 10 September 2026
@ReutersWorldChannel · 49,958
Telegram ranks this channel #83 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 25 August 2026
@FootballTheSun · 45,723
Telegram ranks this channel #84 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 27 August 2026
This channel appears in 24 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“New Straits Times” (@nstmalaysia), 6,238 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/nstmalaysia.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.