Over the past five years Malaysia has become a major destination for foreigners seeking medical treatment. In 2011 over 578,000 foreign patients sought treatment in Malaysian hospitals and clinics, spending RM511m ($164.8m), up almost 19% on foreign health care expenditure in 2010. At a conference in Kuala Lumpur (KL) in July 2012, Liow Tiong Lai,...
Malaysia is a multi-ethnic society of 29m split between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo. With a per-capita GDP that has hovered around $10,000 for the past decade, the country is struggling to escape a “middle-income trap”
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There are a number of reasons for cities to grow, such as trade, the harvesting of resources or the fortification of border areas. Those developed by the Romans in what is today Algeria are no exception. The area was rich in resources and was located on the shores of the Mediterranean, the Western world’s greatest trading corridor. It was...
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