Reported by MIDA, there is an increasing trend among companies in the oil and gas industry to use Malaysia as an OHQ based for their operations in the Asia Pacific region. The following services are provided:

planning, coordination and monitoring of bidding of oil and gas projects in the Asia Pacific region
technical support during bidding and […]

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Some interesting statistics reported by MIDA pertaining to OHQs:

since the introduction of the OHQ incentive scheme in 1990, a total of 133 OHQ’s have been approved;

nationalities from USA (26); Japan(14); Germany (12); UK(10); Netherlands (9) , Australia (9) and others;
total paid –up capital amounted […]

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There is an increasing trend among MNCs to locate their operational headquarters in Malaysia mainly to support their Asia Pacific operations.
Some of the inducing factors to lead more companies coming to Malaysia for the OHQs includes:
· […]

Due to the bull run in the stock market, the following eight new faces joined the ranks of Forbes Asia’s 2007 Malaysia Rich List, which named the 40 richest people in the country:-

New Rich & Rank
Holding
 Others

Ong Beng Seng
( Rank:12 th )
Hotel Properties
·   Currently resides in Singapore, has investments in luxury hotels, real estate and steel. […]

Reported in The Star (8/4/07) further details of the recently launched Iskandar Development Region (IDR):
1. Further details about IDR:

The IDR covers 2,217 sq km
It is the single biggest development project Malaysia, the project area, being 2.5 times the size of Singapore, covers the swathe of land from Tanjung Pelepas to Pasir Gudang, and from […]