In the minds of European or North American tourists, Malaysia and Indonesia may not appear all that different.

It's quite disappointing. It's up substantially. It's pretty worrying given the list of the imports against the exports.

The whole region is likely to be hit by tourist cancellations, undermining growth to some degree in Q4 (the October-December period),

Even though the surge in inflation was one-off, it was pretty shocking and the jump in fuel prices is likely to have some knock-on effects. It's better to move now than to be forced to move more later.

We found a number of hacking software that had been loaded onto the computer. He had used that to gain access to the administrative computer.

I still think we can manage just shy of five percent for the year though. That would imply a slight speeding up in the fourth quarter from third.

He's asked questions in the past and helped teachers to develop Web pages. He seemed to be pretty helpful.

Net exports are unlikely to add much to growth this year with rising oil prices and competition from China seen putting upward pressure on the trade deficit.