"The consensus, from our perspective, is that growth numbers are going to come down, " said Christopher Wong, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management in Singapore.

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"In Malaysia we have found that the best way to control it is to ask people to restrain themselves, " says Christopher Wong of the Kuala Lumpur-based Jaring Internet Magazine, a specialist journal.

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Associated Press writers Gillian Wong, Christopher Bodeen and Didi Tang contributed to this report.

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