Well gentlemen, the thing is, both singapore and malaysian licences are modelled after the CAA's, meaning they wont except FAA unless u do the local paper's which are the same as the CAA one's and maybe a flying test too, that im not too sure. But MAS would not take in expats unless there is a requirement, and with the current shortage off FO's in the airline and if the are smart enough they might just hire a few on contract for a few years untill their local numbers return to normal. They probably would pay local rates since so many people are without a job these days, but it would be a good place to build on hours till the job markets open up again. I believe Air Asia (low cost airline based in Malaysia) would be hiring expats in a few months time, they have the planes but not the crew. Malaysia is all dried up off pilots. They advertised recently in the local dailys, but this is more of the goverments requirement that u advertise for locals before u employ expats, which should be in about 2 months time. SIA has expat FO's, but not too many, but then u might not see command for a long time, but a very good place to get wide body hours, then again its all on local terms.