This will come as a big surprise to Malaysia's Central Bank and the many foreign (and, for that matter, domestic) banks in Malaysia.

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Lim grew up in a small village in Malaysia's central region and worked on the family plantation during school breaks.

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Malaysia's central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz highlighted the ability of infrastructure development to support global economic activity, but also stressed the need for such projects to be carefully managed, given the risks involved.

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Taken together, these cases illustrate two issues--both central to the debate about Islam and modernity--that Malaysia is struggling to come to terms with.

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And more than a third of those are frozen in Singapore's Central Limit Order Book, an offshore market declared invalid by Malaysia last year.

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