Possible Clues:

• Primarily Muslim place within its continent
• Kuala Lumpur is its capital
• Postgraduate less inclined to seek work, we're told, in eastern parts
• Area set in Siam, possibly, or another Eastern country
• The South China Sea divides it
• Two-part country
• Himalayas confusingly loses summit to Thai neighbours
• Commonwealth country of southeast Asia
• South-east Asian Commonwealth federation
• Kuala Lumpur's home