An East Asian Economic Powerhouse.
The 10 countries making up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have also become a formidable economic bloc that can stand up to their giant neighbors and the traditional economic giants of the world. Not surprisingly, other neighbors--especially the more traditional powerhouses of Japan and Korea--would like to get in on the action by pushing for a wider integration that includes the rest of East Asia.
The dollar hegemony
The esoteric grander design behind the war on terror can be viewed as a sinister objective to maintain the unchallenged status of the US dollar that is now the de facto international currency.
The Similarities of Hyundai, Samsung and SK to Malaysian Company
Currently, there is no Malaysian "world-class company"........... We always cite Singapore's Creative Technologies as an example.........Sure, we have Petronas but that is a national oil company with an absolute monopoly over all our energy resources. We don't have a truly entrepreneurial Malaysian icon. South Korea has its Samsung, Hyundai and LG; China its Haier and Huawei Technologies; India its Infosys and Tata Consulting. Even the Philippines has San Miguel.