Here's some info regarding of the purpose of why he's in Malaysia, taken from Wikipedia: MelGibson has donated $500,000 to the El Mirador Basin Project to protectthe last tract of virgin rain forest in Central America and to fundarcheological excavations in the "cradle of Mayan civilization." InJuly 2007, Gibson again visited Central America to make arrangementsfor donations to the indigenous population. Gibson met with Costa RicanPresident Oscar Arias to discuss how to "channel the funds." During thesame month, Gibson pledged to give financial assistance to a Malaysiancompany named Green Rubber Global for a tire recycling factory locatedin Gallup, New Mexico. While on a business trip to Singapore inSeptember 2007, Gibson donated to a local charity for children withchronic and terminal illnesses.