An official delegation from Malaysia conveyed Kuala Lumpur's support for Mr Estrada's handling of the situation.
Exports from Malaysia, which include plywood and veneers, surged in the year after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
Indeed, since Singapore split acrimoniously from Malaysia in 1965, the two have argued over just about everything.
The groups will be fashioned from Malaysia's existing 21 commercial banks, 12 merchant banks and 25 finance companies.
To supplement its bounty from above, it takes the salt out of sea water and imports supplies from Malaysia.
If they need ideas, they need look no farther than Singapore (which ironically gets much of its water from Malaysia).
In the early hours of March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing.
Palm oil, which is traded mostly from Malaysia, is on tap to be taxed at nearly four times its current level.
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The results from Malaysia's general elections the following month attracted less international attention but they shook up Malaysian politics all the same.
In the next two, representatives from Malaysia and Singapore joined the event.
Mei Mei Yap from Malaysia has created the brilliant "IKEA Hacker" blog, which features great ideas for how to customize your IKEA furniture.
"The fact that the group is diversifying away from Malaysia into growth countries is viewed positively, " notes Steven Tan, an analyst with CIMB-GK Research.
As a self-contained city state, this measure helped reduce reliance on water imported from Malaysia and is deemed an important development for national resource independence.
These are striking figures, but then Singapore has been one of the bigger spenders in the region since its rancorous split from Malaysia in 1965.
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So what are the lessons for other countries from Malaysia's experiment?
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
The luxury firm also notes that the profile of foreign buyer may change as well, with more buying harking from Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines rather than China, India and Singapore.
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The party that he helped to create, the People's Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore continuously since separation from Malaysia in 1965, has just endured its worst-ever pasting at the polls.
Such drama is largely absent from Malaysia's sharia courts, which operate in parallel with civil ones and deal mostly with family law for the Muslim majority, annulling marriages and adjudicating custody disputes.
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Kah Inn Lee, a 23-year-old student from Malaysia, said a curtain separated the men's and women's beds in the tiny basement she shared with seven other students in a house owned by Mr. Cheung's son.
The most heated arguments concern the price of the water Singapore buys from Malaysia and sovereignty over a small rock in the Singapore strait, known as Pedra Blanca or Pulau Batu Putih, depending on your point of view.
After the Indonesian government ordered a mass evacuation, people fled coastal settlements and resorts from Malaysia to India, many of which had felt the quake several hours before it became clear that this time there was no tsunami approaching.
Surf88 says it has subscribers from both Malaysia as well as outside the country but would not reveal its numbers.
The quote from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak's Gazali Ismail that "the project's impact would be enormous but not disastrous" is not very comforting.
If street food frightens you, try New World Park, a spic-and-span modern hawker "mall" where you can often find families eating out for the night - always a sign of good hygiene - and food from across Malaysia.
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