‘‘Malaysia: Bullish on bouncing back”. That was the advertorial placed by a group of companies in 1998 amid one of the worst financial crises in the history of Asia. In 2000, it appeared as though Malaysia had done just that but it was unfortunately not yet meant to be. A sequence of economic and geopolitical disasters practically arrested the country’s yearning for a return to normality, at least in the form of stable, albeit unspectacular, growth.
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