Create by Siau-Wee Tai

Brief Description

• multi-racial country

• The three main races in Malaysia are Malay, Chinese and Indian.

Language

• English

• Malay

• Chinese

• India

• other minority dialects.

Population in Malaysia

Malay58%

Indian9%

Others7% Chinese

26%Chinese

Malay

Indian

Others

Religion

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Daoism

• Hinduism

• Christianity

• Sikhism

• Shamanism

Major Culture Issues• Malay - a traditionally gentle and warm people,

always be courteous and soft-spoken, treat others with respect, help others and maintain the peace within the home and the community.

• Chinese - such is the regard for food that the traditional Chinese in Malaysia, as in Hong Kong or Beijing, invariably ask each other on meeting the English equivalent of "Have you eaten, yet?" (The answer always "Yes, I have").

• Indians - they greet each other with palms placed together and raised to the front of the face, head slightly bowed.

Major Industries

• rubber • oil palm processing and manufacturing• Electronics• tin mining and smelting• logging and processing timber• petroleum production• agriculture processing• petroleum production and refining

The Major Export Partner

23%

16%

5%

5%

5%

3%

32%

11%

United State

Singapore

J apan

Hong Kong

Netherlands

Taiwan

Thailand

Others

The Major Imports Partners

21%

18%

14%5%5%4%

3%

30%

Japan

United State

Singapore

Taiwan

South Korea

Thailand

China

Others

Advantages

• Political stability• relatively higher wealth• the even distribution of wealth• English speaking population• Malaysian can communicate with people

from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, India, and Indonesia, without any language barrier.

Disadvantages

• fairly casual employee work ethic

• concentration of business

• political power in increasingly fewer hands.

New Business in Malaysia

Internet