Malaysia
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With a strong electronics export sector and higher oil and gas export prices, Malaysia has nursed its economy back into health and with it, its cements consumption, which will receive an extra boost by the country's Ninth Malaysia Plan and its healthy population growth rate. Add to that a broadly stable, if promising export market, and the local cement industry has much to smile about. However excess grinding capacity, growing imports and low prices temper full-out optimism.