Malaysia's Dec export growth below forecast

Kuala Lumpur

MALAYSIA's exports expanded far slower than expected in December on continued weak global demand for the country's commodities.

Exports grew 1.4 per cent from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, down from 6.3 per cent in November and 5 per cent predicted in a Reuters poll.

The global economic malaise has hit South-east Asia's third-largest economy hard, especially with the slowdown in demand for commodities in China, Malaysia's biggest single t…