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MALAYSIA - SINGAPORE
Singapore is economically the most advanced country in Asia together with Japan,
Taiwan, and Thailand. Although Singapore is only a very small
country the population is majority Chinese descendant and
Indian, and Malay as the minority the influence of Singapore
in Asia is strong economically and culturally. Singapore has
been developed as the stop over of travel between various
ocean and continents. People and goods traveling from any
country in the world make their stop in Singapore. This condition
also upgrading Singapore as the center of trade for Asia.
Buyers from America continent or Europe or Middle East use
Singapore as the basis of their consolidator office. The consolidators
arising great demand of transportation sea or air. So making
Singapore develops into a trade consolidator both products
imported to Asian countries or exported from Asian countries.
As a result of Asian hub and center of trade Singapore developed
very excellent travel facilities including the most reliable
flight of the world the SQ. Basically people travel to Singapore
for its modern world, not specific tradition or old life aspect
or natural interest. different from Malaysia where people
see old tradition beauty of nature and great variation of
social life. Malaysia with the capital city of Kuala Lumpur
has keep pace with the development of earlier advanced countries,
yet but still legged behind at some of their society still
facing some burden mentally, but more luckier compared to
Indonesia where a large part of its population are not really
learnt, although they have passed even universities. Malaysia
also focus on tourism, as the main trade by developing and
beach holidays as Penang, modern interest in Kuala Lumpur,
and natural interest such as in Sabah, Borneo island. Towns
and destination such as Malacca, Cameron highland, Kuching,
Skrang, Kota Kinabalu, and Sandakan are not unknown on various
bibliography of tourism on Malaysia. Malaysia also focuses
on agricultural products in boosting their economy and upgrading
the level of national education to surpassing Indonesia and
the Philippine.
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