KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama arrived in Malaysia on Saturday hoping to energize relations with the predominantly Muslim country and re-focus a four-nation Asian tour repeatedly distracted by foreign-policy crises elsewhere.

Obama became the first serving US president to visit Malaysia since Lyndon Johnson in 1966 as he tours Asia to underscore his “rebalance” of US attention toward the strategic Asia-Pacific and push a stalled regional trade pact.

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