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City roads are nearly empty on the first day of Chinese New Year, as motorists enjoy the rare experience of a smooth drive around the city centre. This picture taken at Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Highway around 6pm. January 31, 2014. FAIHAN GHANI/The Star.

BY THE time Tim Dillon moved to Malaysia, he was already a seasoned expatriate, having worked in countries as diverse as Brazil, China, India and Japan for more than half his life.

However, Dillon, who now lives in Kuala Lumpur as the Victorian Government Business Office Commissioner to South-East Asia, along with his wife and children, finds Malaysia is a very different proposition to all of those other countries, because of its ethnic diversity and close ties with Australia.