Sticking Point No. 2: Washington has instigated an investigation into the business dealings of the Malaysian state oil company, Petronas, with Iran.

CNN: A Strained Friendship

The government claims that the Malaysian swap deal will ultimately break the business model of the people smugglers, who charge large amounts to ferry asylum seekers towards Australian shores.

BBC: Australia fails to find an asylum solution

Chris Ho, a Malaysian businessman, has launched a campaign called Back in Business and Seeing is Believing to promote Cambodia.

ECONOMIST: Seeing is believing

But he decided not to stay in that business, instead getting a degree in science from a Malaysian university and then an M.

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Ramasamy, a professor at the Malaysian National University, Indians have little prospect of advancement, since Malaysia's Chinese minority dominates business, and Malays control the bureaucracy.

ECONOMIST: Malaysia

Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.

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