1. Not bad, I will say.

2. Can't answer.

3. My sister is one. She has been working in a hospital's laboratory for a few years now and see no future ahead with very little salary so she's switching industry by venturing into a different field for her Master's she'll be taking soon. She has friends now in zoos and PathLab, but other than that all I can tell you is, based on my sister's experience and my observation, biomedical science has future, at least for a foreseeable future. You might want to re-consider your option, the market in Malaysia is just not ready for this field.

Yes, that's the reason.

R&D is not that easy to get as some people have mentioned. The most important factor to go into R&D upon graduation is financial support. Not everybody will have the finance required to do a research and not every firms are willing to spend on R&D, especially since the market now isn't very ideal and stable.

Plus, and this is my personal opinion, don't go into R&D without job experience. Doing research is one thing - anyone with qualified background could easily try to venture into R&D, but the main point about R&D is its application. Without job experience, you do not know what's the difficulties faced by the experts in the field and you have no idea how things are actually applied in an actual field. So, if your research work cannot be brought to practice, it'll just be a literal paper qualification which I would say is meaningless. Get a job first, have some experience, understand how things are actually run and try to find out what has been plaguing the society, only then go into R&D and try to solve them. That would be a better path.