Extending a hand of partnership

Informal patrol: A man believed to be a US Secret Service Agent walking with a sniffer dog around the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

The Obama administration is always ready to cooperate with other countries in terms of boosting trade, improving regional security and improving ties.

BARACK Obama’s story so far has been a litany of “firsts”. The first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review became the first African-American President of the United States and declared himself its first “Pacific President”.