WHEN China’s former leader Deng Xiaoping opened the door to foreign investors in the early 1990s, many Malaysian entrepreneurs took up the challenge and flocked into this uncharted territory.
The obstacles brought about by a different culture and the bureaucracy were many and those who could not overcome them headed home, some empty-handed, when the financial crisis swept through Asia in 1998.
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