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The goal of National Automotive Policy (NAP) is to make Malaysia into a regional hub for EEV with high technology uptake among industry players for domestic and regional and international exports thus boost economic factor. Available at: []
 * 1) ** NAP is been revise into a hub for energy efficient vehicles (EEVs) **
 * 2. ** **Malaysia external trade growth to propel logistics sector **

Malaysia's major trading partners are Asian countries, which are also expected to experience stable economic growth. Electrical and electronic products, chemicals, palm oil, machinery, appliances and parts are key trading commodities for Malaysia. Available at: [] = 3. Malaysia National Broadband Initiative  = The high speed broadband will increase the national competitiveness and attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the country. Broadband will help to boost the country for knowledge-based economy as it will be penetrate and whole Malaysia will have access to the internet. Available at: [] = 4. MAS-AirAsia share swap off  = = = = With MAS-AirAsia share swap are off, competition would be more competitive between two companies. This will benefit more tourists to visit Malaysia or go travel overseas. = = = = Available at: []  =

** Malaysia is likely to export more crude palm oil (CPO) this year as the recent review of Indonesian palm oil taxes has caused refiners here to lose money **as a result, CPO and crude palm kernel oil became very cheap for downstream producers there. Malaysian refiners have started to concede global palm oil market share to Indonesia. This is pushing more palm oil stocks to Malaysia. Available at: []
 * 5. Indonesian palm oil taxes has caused refiners to lose money **

Malaysia will be hit harder than its Asian peers by the economic crisis in Europe due to its relatively weak public finances and dependence on commodities, said Nomura International. Available at: [] More computer and storage manufacturers are revealing higher prices, and analysts are adjusting IT forecasts as other market factors collide with the aftermath of the 2011 Thailand floods, which also devastated the global manufacturing center of hard disk drives (HDD). As expected, the impact of these shortages and hikes have filtered into the HDD supply chain, with analysts projecting markets – including PCs, servers, storage arrays and other devices dependent on HDDs – now expected to be impacted into 2013. Available at: []
 * 6. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Malaysia vulnerable to euro crisis **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">7. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Thailand 2011 flood crisis cause HDD hike prices that may affect Malaysia IT sector **

A new MRT and extension of LRT railway is been plan to help boost public transport among the people and bring convenience to the people. In the same, it help bring more jobs to people and developed the particular area which have MRT. Available at: [|http://transitmy.org/2010/11/30/new-lrt-and-mrt-prasarana-to-shoulder-gigantic expectations/]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">8. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Public Transport Plan to Build MRT in Malaysia **

= 9. Infineon plans expansion in Malaysia  =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s second-largest maker of semiconductors, plans to announce a “multi-billion ringgit” investment to expand its wafer fabrication facilities in Malaysia, according to an e-mailed media invitation today. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Grants tax certainties for cross-border businesses and taxing rights to Malaysia and HK region to avoid double taxation for income taxes, among others. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">10. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Malaysia and Hong Kong sign tax pact **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">The disaster of tsunami happened few years ago due to the earthquake from Indonesia has bring some impact to the businesses in Penang even though the impact was little. The worst hit beach area was the beach across the road from Ferringhi beach Resort due to picnickers. It is very sad to say that many deaths were children and older women. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">The demonstration which held on 28th April in almost every states in Malaysia has brought some negative images to Malaysia. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia government provides shuttle transportation services to the public such as bus, LRT, taxt, and etc. The service provided by the government allows the public to use it for their daily activities for example like the path to working place, shopping, sports and etc. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia has a strong and good country image to the world after the independent day. One of the good images of Malaysia is our badminton player Datok Lee Chong Wei who is the top badminton player in the world. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a car export country, Malaysia has its technology to produce car from year to year. In this year, PROTON has produce a new car name PROTON PREVE and its own technology. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia is a country that produces petroleum as well. The petroleum has been exported the other countries in the world which help Malaysia to increase its income. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">The election in Malaysia will be held once after 5 years time. The period before and after election could affect the country’s economic for negative and positive site. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia has good relationship with its neighbor countries and there are Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia and etc. The good relationship allows Malaysia to have more business opportunities and more chances to cooperate with neighbor countries. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">A good leadership from the government and the improvement of the country can be seem under the leading of our prime Minister Najib Tun Razak <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia has developing itself from year to year and time to time. The Vision 2020 is the most important task for Malaysia to achieve it and now Malaysia is heading to it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Economic Planning Unit (EPU) together with the United Nations (UN) jointly unveiled the Malaysia Millennium Development Goals at 2010 to assesses both progress at the national levels as well as by state, rural-urban location, gender, age, ethnicity, disability and other disaggregated categories <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">11. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Tsunami **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstration **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">13. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Transportation service **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">14. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong country image **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">15. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">New technology **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">16. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Petroleum **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">17. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Election **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">18. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good relationship with neighborhood countries **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">19. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good leadership **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">20. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong development country **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">21. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia MDG 2010 REVIEW **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) will lay the Cahaya Malaysia Cable Sytem, a two fibre pair cable system linking Malaysia direct to Japan as well as to Hong Kong. This state-ofpart cable system will provide to Malaysia with 500Gps of capacity when it is put into service in mid 2012. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">22. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cahaya Malaysia Cable System **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">GEORGE TOWN: Car toll for the Second Penang Bridge has been set at RM7, said Jambatan Kedua Sdn Bhd managing director Datuk Ismail Mohamed Taib would remain, he said at least until 2038 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">23. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Car toll for Penang Bridge 2 set at RM7 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Putrajaya, 25 April 2012- US trade Ron Kirk described Malaysia as a magnet for investment and its on going economic transformation plan enhances its attractiveness. And, the benefit of that all is the Malaysian people as American businesses want to be in Malaysia as they are comfortable in this country, which is one of the reason that the US wants to engage with Malaysian in the multilateral Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">24. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">US trade chief sees Malaysia as Investment Magnet **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">KUALA LUMPUR: VADS Bhd, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), is hopeful of double-digit growth over the next few years for its upcoming telepresence service nationwide that allows virtual meeting to be conducted using life-size, high-definition video and spatial discrete audio <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">25. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">VADS partners Cisco in telepresence service **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia and Singapore are looking at the possibility of expanding the scope of the proposed Rapid Transit System (RTS) between Singapore and Johor Bahru to also include underground road connection between the two countries, and to promote mutually beneficial twinning economic activities between Iskandar Malaysia and Singapore. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">26. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">JB-Singapore to have underground road connection **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">PUTRAJAYA, April 1(Bernama) – The implementation of various programme in accordance with the “One Malaysia” concept can unite the people of various in the country to organised and systematically manner to ensure that no community was isolated from development of any kind. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: []
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">27. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">“ONE MALAYSIA” Concept just way to unity **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22(Bernama)- Three outstanding Malaysians were announced as the recipients of the 2011 Merdeka Award for their outstanding and lasting contributions to the nations and people in their respectively fields by having the true spirit of Merdeka-the liberation of mind and spirit and the pursuit of excellence <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Available at: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">28. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three Outstanding Malaysians Named 2011 Merdeka Award Recipients **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">NEW DELHI, April 19 (Bernama) – <span class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bilateral relations <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">, in terms of trade,investment and politics between <span class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">India <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">and <span class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">, is at a high level and isexpected to strengthen further, though people-to-people relations remain farfrom satisfactory, according to experts Available at: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">29. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">MALAYSIA, INDIA PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE RELATIONS STILL LACKING-EXPERTS **

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">French-Malaysian political relations are relatively new, though it could also be traced back to old days. If the first significant memories of French presence in Malaya took place during the British protectorate (a novel entitled « Malaisie » or « Malaysia » by planter Henri Fauconnier won the Goncourt award in 1930), France was one of the privileged 15 countries making a gesture to open an embassy in Kuala Lumpur since 1957. Since more than half a century, the two nations have been committed to strengthen the ties, which have always been amicable despite the distance. Available at: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">30. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">FRANCO MALAYSIAN Bilateral relations **

**STEEP ANALYSIS** ||  ** Social ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Tsunami <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Demonstration <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Malaysia MDG 2010 REVIEW || ** Technology ** || - NAP is been revise into a hub for energy efficient vehicles (EEVs) = - Malaysia National Broadband Initiative  = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Thailand 2011 flood crisis cause HDD hike prices that may affect Malaysia IT sector <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Transportation service <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">New technology <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Cahaya Malaysia Cable System <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- VADS partners Cisco in telepresence service <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Three Outstanding Malaysians Named 2011 Merdeka Award Recipients || ** Economic ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Malaysia external trade growth to propel logistics sector <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Indonesian palm oil taxes has caused refiners to lose money = - MAS-AirAsia share swap off  = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Malaysia vulnerable to euro crisis <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Public Transport Plan to Build MRT in Malaysia <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Malaysia and Hong Kong sign tax pact <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Petroleum <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Strong development country <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Car toll for Penang Bridge 2 set at RM7 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- US trade chief sees Malaysia as Investment Magnet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- JB-Singapore to have underground road connection || ** Ecological ** || = = = - Infineon plans expansion in Malaysia  = || ** Political ** || - Strong country image - Election <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Good relationship with neighborhood countries <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- Good leadership <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">- **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">“ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ONE MALAYSIA” Concept just way to unity <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- MALAYSIA, INDIA PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE RELATIONS STILL LACKING- EXPERTS <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">- FRANCO MALAYSIAN Bilateral relations ||
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