That seemingly small event generated a financial tsunami that engulfed most of east Asia and overwhelmed Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.

这件看似很小的事件导致了一场金融“海啸”，“吞没”了东亚的大部分地区，席卷了印度尼西亚、马来西亚、菲律宾、韩国和泰国。

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It was the middle of 1997. Suddenly, private investors started shifting their money - a lot of money - out of five East Asian countries: Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

时间是在1997年中，突然之间，私人投资者开始转移资金，把大量的钱转移出五个东亚国家-泰国、韩国、马来西亚、菲律宾和印尼。

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East Malaysia, consisting of the federal territory of Labuan and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, occupies the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the Sultanate of Brunei.

东马来群岛是由联邦地域中的纳闽岛和沙巴诸州还有沙捞越组成的，它占据了婆罗洲诸岛的南部，接壤着印度尼西亚和文莱。

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On Nov. 13, a Malaysian consortium will launch its second Malaysia East Asia Satellite, MEASAT-2.

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The most notable casualty is the massive hydro-electric Bakun Dam in East Malaysia's Sarawak state.

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So for now the estimated 40, 000 pre-schoolers in East Malaysia will just have to stay indoors.

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