Mr Najib, 59, was sworn in as prime minister by Malaysia's king on Monday afternoon.

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Teik Ngan may try to look for a friendly party, perhaps a Malay businessman with ties to the government. (Tunku Abdullah, the brother of the current King of Malaysia, is executive chairman of MBf Finance and chairman of MBf Holdings and MBf Capital.) But many such bumiputra entrepreneurs already have problems of their own.

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Two recent Hollywood movies, Entrapment and Anna and the King, were filmed in Malaysia.

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